**This blog was written and submitted by our Submissions Manager Taylor Horton.**
As the semester is coming to a wrap, senior students all around campus are finishing up their Capstone projects and filming their presentations. These students have worked tirelessly over the course of the semester, managing to make their work sparkle during the midst of a pandemic and transferring to an online platform.
Charlie Katherine Mullis is a senior at Abraham Baldwin Agriculture majoring in Rural Community and Development. She is one of the three students doing their capstone this semester with Dr. Koposko. Each of these students are focusing on their own individual projects and Charlie Katherine’s research is centered right here at ABAC. She may not be able to present her project to her peers and mentors as she planned, but she was excited to share the details of her hard work with us!
Charlie Katherine’s Capstone project focuses on looking into the main predictors of depression in ABAC’s student community. She started by picking various variables that had been researched before on an induvial level or variables that had not been researched at all as predictors of depression. She then combined these variables and created a survey to help determine the greatest predictor of depression.
Mullis added that she was inspired to do this project because “as someone that takes depression medicine daily, [she] wanted to raise awareness and fight the stigma around depression”. Charlie Katherine hopes that by identifying the main variables that cause ABAC students to have depressive symptoms that she can “help groups like the Student Development Center, the Active Minds club, and ABAC counselors have better knowledge about the students that they serve”.
**This blog was written and submitted by our Submissions Manager Taylor Horton.**
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