105 Students Present Research at QAC Spring Poster Session
![eve_postersessionQAC_2017-0505012641](https://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/files/2017/05/eve_postersessionQAC_2017-0505012641-1-760x507.jpg)
On May 5, 105 students presented their quantitative analysis research during a poster session in Beckham Hall.
The Quantitative Analysis Center (QAC) hosts a poster session twice a year, which doubles as a final exam evaluation for its QAC 201 course. Nineteen evaluators, of which seven were Wesleyan-affiliated, attended and judged the projects. Students also had the opportunity to share their projects with fellow students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends of Wesleyan.
In this project-based course, students learned to answer questions through independent research based on existing data. Students developed skills in generating testable hypotheses, conducting a literature review, preparing data for analysis, conducting descriptive and inferential statistical analyses, and presenting research findings.
![Ky Foley '17 presented "Forecasting Catastrophe! A New Model for Understanding the Destructive Capacity of Weather Events."](https://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/files/2017/05/eve_postersessionQAC_2017-0505012754-1.jpg)
![Yu Wang '19 spoke about her research titled "Testing the Association between Hours of Sleep and Mental Health and Coping among Adults."](https://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/files/2017/05/eve_postersessionQAC_2017-0505012021.jpg)
![Erin Hussey '20 shared her study titled "The Association Between Political-Economic Attitudes and Racial Bias Among Caucasian Americans."](https://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/files/2017/05/eve_postersessionQAC_2017-0505011554.jpg)
![Jonas Powell ’18 presented his study titled “I Can Stay Up a Little Later, Right? Analyzing the Relationship Between Sleep and Mental Health in Young Adults” during the QAC poster session.](https://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/files/2017/05/eve_postersessionQAC_2017-0505012142.jpg)
![Visiting international student Rodolfo del Pueyo Parra presented his research on “Beyond Major Depression: Cannabis Consumption in Relation to Dysthymia."](https://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/files/2017/05/eve_postersessionQAC_2017-0505012641-1.jpg)
![Laura Goetzman ’19 presented her research titled “The Association between Binge Drinking and Romantic Relationship Types among Adults with and without Depression.”](https://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/files/2017/05/eve_postersessionQAC_2017-0505012229.jpg)
Laura Goetzman ’19 presented her research titled “The Association between Binge Drinking and Romantic Relationship Types among Adults with and without Depression.”