Blue and Gold Day occurs each Spring, usually in mid April, and provides the occasion for students who have completed research as part of Graduation with Distinction to share their findings and ideas with the LSMSA community. All students attend a general assembly on Friday evening and are able to choose three research presentations to attend on Saturday morning. Participation is an LSMSA graduation requirement.

Sampling of Recent Graduation with Distinction Papers
“The Use of RNA Interference to Stop Cancer Metastasis”
“An Examination of Feminism in the Revolutionary Time Period”
“A General Model for Three-Way Neutrino Oscillations”
“Gullies in N. Hemisphere of Mars: How Much Water Was Needed for Gully Formation”
“The Brothers Grimm: Guardians of the German Folktale or Frauds?”
“Balancing the Brain Through Music and Physical Therapy”
“SARA—Program for Student Advising, Registration, and Administration”
“DeClassification: The Machine Translation of Classical Latin into Modern English”
“The Origins of the Investiture Controversy”
“Novel Method for High-Throughput Isolation of a Variety of Nucleic Acid Moieties Using a Polymeric Device”
“GIS-Based Stormwater Assessment Modeling”
“Characterization of Functional Domains of Adenylate Cyclase in Schizosaccharomyces pombe”
“Twenty Years of Improving U.S. Military-Media Relations, 1983—2003”
“The Durability of Traditional and Modified Limewash on Epoxy”