Annual Celebration of Student Scholarship and Creativity
Annual Celebration of Student Scholarship and Creativity
The 16th Annual Celebration of Student Scholarship and Creativity will be held in the Center at Moore Hall on Wednesday, April 23, 2025.
It will be a one-day format, alternating between oral presentation sessions and poster sessions throughout the day.
The Center for Engaged Learning continues to honor the incredible contributions Dr. Steve Mecca made to establishing and growing the culture of undergraduate research on our campus. Over his career, Dr. Mecca mentored hundreds of student researchers from a wide variety of disciplines. Notably, his students presented 73 projects at the Annual Celebration of Student Scholarship and Creativity over the past decade.
Projects reflecting one of the four themes that the late Dr. Steve Mecca was passionate about – Education, Health, Sanitation, and/or Technology – will be designated in his honor.
You can see projects from past Celebrations at https://digitalcommons.providence.edu/acssc/.
In keeping with the mission of The Center at Moore Hall, we are working to build an event that not only showcases the incredible breadth of ideas and talent exhibited by students but also strengthens the PC community by fostering dialogue among various campus constituencies. If you know of a student or group of students who you feel deserve to be celebrated for work conducted last summer or fall or for work ongoing this spring, please consider nominating them by Monday, March 31.
About the Celebration
The annual event was inspired as a result of Providence College being awarded a three-year Fostering a Culture of Student Engagement grant from the Davis Educational Foundation. The purpose of the grant was to deepen students’ engagement in their learning as a means of fulfilling the College’s central mission to promote, sustain, and enhance academic excellence.
The celebration is an important feature of the College’s Strategic Plan, in which student engagement is a critical step in our effort to enhance academic excellence through expanded experiential research, study, and service opportunities, and by recognizing students’ best scholarly and creative work.
Dr. Jennifer Van Reet
Director of the Center for Engaged Learning
Professor of Psychology
Library 211
401.865.1824
jvanreet@providence.edu
Dr. Darra Mulderry
Associate Director of the Center for Engaged Learning
Director, National and International Fellowships
Library 212
401.865.1745
Amy Goggin
Assistant Director of the Center for Engaged Learning
Library 212
401.865.1834
agoggin@providence.edu
