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Advisory Board selects two undergraduate students as founding editors

NASHVILLE - During the first meeting of the Advisory Board on January 21, the voting members selected two undergraduate students, Warren Langevin and Noah Clemons, as Founding Editors of the Vanderbilt Undergraduate Research Journal. In subsequent years, the editorial position will be consolidated into an Editor and Associate Editors.

Warren Langevin is a Harold Stirling Vanderbilt Scholar at Peabody College. He is majoring in Political Science and Human and Organizational Development, with a focus on the study of public policy and political institutions. He holds a research assistant position at the Peabody Center for Education Policy, where he is involved in a national study of state takeovers of local school districts funded by the United States Department of Education. The principal investigator for the multi-year grant is Professor Kenneth K. Wong. In addition, both researchers are also investigating the representational dimensions of Title I distributions in the congressional arena. His research interests are state policy leadership, intergovernmental relations, formal and informal legal structures, political institutions, and public policy.

Noah Clemons is a senior at the School of Engineering. He is majoring in Computer Science and Mathematics, with a special focus on applied robotic programming through Markov Chain processes. In the past two summers, Noah participated in the Vanderbilt Undergraduate Summer Research Program and the Summer Research Program for Undergraduate Engineering Students. He is actively pursuing several academic interests in the field of mathematics in preparation for advanced graduate study while also making research contributions to the field of engineering.