Sarina Durrant of Kansas City, Kansas, is one of five graduate students from Emporia State University who will join students from Kansas Regents institutions for the annual Capitol Graduate Research Summit on Feb. 18.
The purpose of CGRS is to display the quality and robustness of Kansas-related graduate research taking place at local institutions to state government, education officials, industry representatives and the general public. While the event is usually held at the Capitol, it will be held virtually for the first time this year due to COVID-19.
Each institution selected five students to present their research at the event. Students will be judged on their work and presentation quality by graduate faculty from participating institutions and will be eligible for $500 awards from their institution and BioKansas.
Durrant, a graduate student in the counseling education department, will present “The Expressive Therapies Continuum and De-escalation.”
Durrant has worked as a special education paraprofessional at the Kansas City, Kansas, Public Schools.
CGRS is open to the public and free to access on Feb. 18 at https://ltblogs.fhsu.edu/cgrs2021/.