Mount St. Mary's University SPARC Festival

04/24/2025

04/23/2025

One of our favorite days of the year!

05/12/2020

Senior Honors students lost the opportunity to present their capstone honors projects at the SPARC Festival, but the 33 scholars gained the chance to share their work with the world by preparing video presentations that are hosted on the university website. Spend some time learning about the research topics that interest you. We will be highlighting several of the projects in the coming days. https://msmary.edu/academics/student-success/honors-program/senior-honors-presentations.html

04/18/2020

Wishing this spot was filled with happy students like last year as we kicked off SPARC Festival. While we had to cancel this year's academic festival, names of accepted presenters and their mentors and presentation abstracts are on the Mount website: https://msmary.edu/campus-life/events-and-traditions/sparc-festival.html. Interested in a topic? Reach out to the presenter for more information. #

02/17/2020

It's the most wonderful time of the academic year. Submissions are being accepted for SPARC 2020!

10/25/2019

Emma Krusz's senior honors project is taking her to Dublin next month to conduct research with Mount students who are studying abroad. Read about her plans in the MSMU Travel Blog. We can't wait to heard her presentation at SPARC in April.

When it came time last spring to begin thinking of what I wanted to research for my honors project, I honestly had no idea of what I wanted to do. I knew it had to be this 25 page paper and 20 minu…

05/01/2019

Announcing SPARC Festival award winners! Congrats to the following:

Best Lightning Talks:
1) College of Liberal Arts – Grace Bovard
2) Bolte School of Business – Nathaniel Bald
3) School of Natural Science & Mathematics – Erik Menjivar

Best Poster Presentations:
1) College of Liberal Arts – Stephanie Kennedy
2) Bolte School of Business – Mary Stratton
3) School of Natural Science & Mathematics – Elizabeth O’Hare & Katelyn Comeau

04/27/2019

Scenes from today's Mosaic Festival celebrating the Mount's diversity.

04/25/2019

SPARC Festival continues this afternoon with more lightning talks, poster sessions, and the honored faculty speaker Patrick Lombardi, Ph.D. Plus, the final honors presentations are this evening. Check out the photos of Wednesday's and Thursday morning's events by clicking on the album below.

Our three-day celebration of academic excellence, April 24-26

04/25/2019

A picture perfect day for the opening celebration of the SPARC Festival. Photos will be added to this album throughout SPARC. Spend Thursday learning voraciously from your peers and special speakers.

Our three-day celebration of academic excellence, April 24-26

04/23/2019

Only one day until the SPARC Festival kicks off with the opening celebration at 3:30 p.m. on Founder's Plaza. Click on the link for the full schedule.

04/18/2019

SPARC Highlights: Professor Lombardi will share the latest on his research that was published in the journal Nature last year.