Bridgewater College this week is recognizing academic achievement during “A Celebration of the Arts, Scholarship, Performance, Innovation and Research Excellence” (ASPIRE), and two Smithfield students are among the participants.

Local students presenting at ASPIRE are:

• Brooke Locascio with a poster presentation on “Hypocrisy of Hunting: How the Implementation of the 7th Pillar of the North American Model of Wildlife Fails to Support Wildlife Conservation.” Locascio is a senior biology major.
• Harrison Senter with a poster presentation on “Discovering the Role of Repeat Sequences in Regulation of the phaZ Gene in Streptomyces sp. SFB5A.” Senter also is a senior biology major.