Student Projects

“Not On My Watch”

By the time I have turned this paper in, my biotechnology test will have passed, and I will be considerably more relaxed with the world, no longer cramming in genetic terminologies and different techniques of DNA splicing. I will admit that because this test in particular was more visibly immediate, I was more concerned with it than an extra credit assignment for a class in which I am already earning an A.

2007 Project: Morgantown Music

In the Fall of 2006, I moved to Morgantown, West Virginia to attend West Virginia University. Having grown up in a small town in Ohio, Morgantown was a big place and I was excited to meet many new people. At the time I was an English major and had signed up to take a class entitled American Culture and Folklore. I was looking forward to taking this class because I had always enjoyed ‘old time’ things and I thought that this class would be a great way to learn more about the things I was interested in.

2007 Morgantown Music: Pictures
2007 Morgantown Music: Interviews
2006 Ecuador Trip

- Second Annual trip to Ecuador Rainforest which included one week in Quito and one week with the Huarani tribe.

- Students from SIU, Shepherd, Marshall and West Virginia University met at the West Virginia Energy Gathering Feb 11-12, concentrating on WV days of action.

2006 Ecuador Trip Pictures
2005 Ecuador Excursion

The summer of 2005, Aurora Lights sponsored an environmental education trip abroad, taking college students in a 450 Environmental Law Perspectives class to various parts of Ecuador. While there, students had first hand conversations with activists, environmentalists, and educators that live and experience the effects of environmental abusers. Students researched and produced an array of projects involving everything from the Texaco Valdeze Oil companies and their affect on the locals, to indigenous peoples and their use of endangered environmental items.

2005 Ecuador Excursion Pictures
2005 Ecuador Trip: Full Article
2005 Ecuador Trip: Personal Narrative