{"id":12264,"date":"2026-04-15T09:41:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T14:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=12264"},"modified":"2026-04-15T09:48:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T14:48:20","slug":"students-from-missouri-lambda-chapter-of-alpha-chi-present-at-national-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2026\/04\/15\/students-from-missouri-lambda-chapter-of-alpha-chi-present-at-national-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Students from Missouri Lambda Chapter of Alpha Chi present at national conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12265\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12265\" class=\"size-fusion-400 wp-image-12265\" src=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/04\/Alpha-Chi-National-2026-2-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"students pose at convention\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/04\/Alpha-Chi-National-2026-2-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/04\/Alpha-Chi-National-2026-2-310x232.jpg 310w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/04\/Alpha-Chi-National-2026-2-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/04\/Alpha-Chi-National-2026-2-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/04\/Alpha-Chi-National-2026-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/04\/Alpha-Chi-National-2026-2-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/04\/Alpha-Chi-National-2026-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/04\/Alpha-Chi-National-2026-2-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/04\/Alpha-Chi-National-2026-2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12265\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MoWest students Linda Bieri, Averi Holsted, Emily Shuck and Allaina Mace at the 2026 Alpha Chi National Convention.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">April 15, 2026\u2013Four Missouri Western State University students from the Missouri Lambda Chapter of Alpha Chi presented their research at the Alpha Chi National Convention in Orlando, Florida last month.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Allaina Mace, a senior psychology major from St. Joseph, presented \u201cBeyond the Classroom: The Role of Parents in Academic Achievement.\u201d Mace was also awarded a $3,000 Benedict Fellowship for her Majors Honors research, which was announced at the conference and will be applied to her first year of graduate studies.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Averi Holsted, a senior double-major in psychology and exercise science from Lathrop, Missouri, presented \u201cExamining Athletic Burnout Through the Lens of Athletic Identity and Perceptions of Life Transitions.\u201d Holsted won a $100 Presentation Award.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Linda Bieri, a senior law major from Kansas City, Missouri, presented \u201cFalse Confessions: Everyone Has Their Breaking Point.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Emily Schuck, a Master&#8217;s in Social Work student from Martinsville, Missouri, presented \u201cEnsuring the Healthy Development of Youth through Gentle Parenting.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alphachihonor.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alpha Chi<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a national college honor society for the top 10 percent of upper-division students. The biennial national convention gathers scholars from around the country to share their work\u2014often presenting to a national audience for the first time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Drs. Teddi Deka and James Carviou accompanied the students.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Missouri Western State University is a student-centered learning community preparing individuals for lives of excellence through applied learning. MoWest is located in St. Joseph, Mo., and is committed to the educational, economic, cultural and social development of the region it serves. Visit <\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">missouriwestern.edu<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 15, 2026\u2013Four Missouri Western State University students from the Missouri Lambda Chapter of Alpha Chi presented their research at the Alpha Chi National Convention in Orlando, Florida last month.\u00a0 Allaina Mace, a senior psychology major from St. Joseph, presented \u201cBeyond the Classroom: The Role of Parents in Academic Achievement.\u201d Mace was also awarded a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":12268,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12264"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12264"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12267,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12264\/revisions\/12267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}