 Hi everyone, I am here in BCC with my friends Dean and Abby and we're here at the Research Symposium talking a little bit about their project on the Apollon Journal Issue 14. So Abby, start us off, why this project? Well, this project is one that not many people know about at Fairfield. I hadn't known about it myself coming into it. I was working with a career counselor, Steph Gallo, and she had pointed me in the direction of this project. Just looking into it, I thought it was really cool. It's a digital journal for undergraduate research and the humanities. So we published work from undergraduate students from all over the world and I just thought this was really cool that it's housed at Fairfield and has been housed at Fairfield since 2018 and it's been really cool to work as an editor for it in the course. Absolutely. Dean, so why do you think digging into this journal is important? Why was it important for you to join this project and to spend so much time doing research on it? Well, being someone who's a part of the humanities in their major, I'm a philosophy major, I've been very interested in writing and I thought, hey, this is a great experience to improve my writing and get some awesome experience in publishing, see if that's something I want to do, which maybe it is after I do this and it's very interesting to see, sort of like even have watched the submissions sort of come in from all over the world like Russia, Singapore this year, having undergraduates who aren't even Englishes and even their first language is very, very interesting and I think it sort of shines a light on research that's being done now and by students like ourselves. Yeah, absolutely. That's super impressive, you guys. Abby, tell me, you talked a little bit about your relationship with the faculty through this project and that special bond that you have with a single faculty member, can you just elaborate on that a little bit and share with everyone how important that is to the project? Yeah, so this semester we're working with Dr. Sackley as our faculty advisor and it's definitely a unique relationship between student and teacher. It's not really so much a lecture style class, it's more of we get to work with this teacher as almost a peer. We get to argue and debate with her and work together towards publishing a final product. Yeah, that is very unique and special. Wrap it all up for me, Dean. What's next for the project? Where do you hope this project goes? Well, we're just waiting for our last couple editors to send in, or our last couple authors to send in their revised papers and then we kind of check them, make sure all the style and format is correct and then we're going to migrate it over into Squarespace and publish it in hopefully the next two weeks. So watch out for it. Well congratulations, thank you so much you guys and congrats on all your hard work. Thank you.