Blue Student-Athletes To Present At Wellesley's Annual Tanner Conference

WELLESLEY, Mass. -- Wellesley College student-athletes will present at the annual Tanner Conference on Tuesday, October 31, 2017 at Wellesley College. Tanner will take place from 8:45 AM - 4:10 PM at the Wellesley College Science Center.

Established through the generosity of Wellesley College trustee emerita Estelle "Nicki" Newman Tanner '57, the Tanner Conference celebrates the relationship between the liberal arts classroom and student participation in an increasingly diverse and interdependent world. 

A complete list of student-athlete presenters can be found below. For more information, visit: wellesley.edu/tanner.

Click here to view the 2017 Tanner Conference schedule and abstracts and see below for a list of student-athlete presenters:

Meg Babikian (Crew) - Technological Advancements as Acts of Service: Envisioning the Future of Biomedical Engineering

Lauren Bazley (Crew) - Trauma-Informed Education in a Greek Refugee Camp

Emma Brewer-Wallin (Fencing) - Confronting the Unacceptable: Civil Rights, Justice, and Faith in the American South (Panel)

Kelsey Campbell (Crew) - Connecting with White Rural Communities through Public Health 

Jessica Feng (Swimming) - Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity at Educational Testing Service (ETS)

Taylor Fortnam (Cross Country/Track and Field) - Programming and Drug Development: Informatics in Big Pharma (Panel) 

Ciaran Gallagher (Crew) - Grassroots Environmentalism: Mobilizing People Through Forestation, Farming, Faith and Feminism (Panel)

Samantha Hoang (Volleyball) - From Clusters to Spheres

Molly Hoyer (Crew) - Grassroots Environmentalism: Mobilizing People Through Forestation, Farming, Faith and Feminism (Panel)

Stephanie Kim (Crew) - The Benefits and Challenges of a Charity Hospital Abroad 

Alexandra Klufas (Crew) - Understanding the Impacts of Data Length When Evaluating Coastal Flood Risk 

Elizabeth Lambert (Cross Country/Track and Field) - How Gases Cross from the Ocean into the Atmosphere 

Michelle Li (Volleyball) - A New Age of Targeted Therapy: Antibody Drug Conjugates 

Zoe Matticks (Soccer) - Global Public Health: Much More than the Doctor's Responsibility (Panel)

Clare Salerno (Cross Country/Track and Field) - Dinosaurs, Ice Cores, and the Etruscans: Creating Exhibitions at The Field Museum

Catherine Xie (Cross Country/Track and Field) - Precision Medicine: From Gene to Brain to Cancer (Panel)