7th Annual UO Undergraduate Research Symposium Preview
Established in 2011, the UO Undergraduate Symposium celebrates the remarkable contributions undergraduates make to research and creative scholarship in a wide range of disciplines. The Undergraduate Symposium is hosted by the Division of Undergraduate Studies with support from University Housing, the Robert D. Clark Honors College, and the Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation.
The Symposium invites students to showcase their work through oral, poster, and creative work presentations encompassing art installations, science demonstrations, film screenings, and live music, dance, theatre, and spoken word performances.
The Undergraduate Symposium debuted in 2011 with 69 presenters and 40 faculty mentors spanning 20 majors and four colleges, and in its seventh year has grown to 292 presenters and 177 faculty mentors spanning 60 majors and eight colleges. Over the past seven years the Symposium has hosted nearly 1200 student presenters.
This year the Symposium is back in the EMU and taking over the second floor with oral presentation sessions, creative work installations and performance, and a poster session. Events begin at 10 am and run throughout the day until 7 pm.
For more information about the Undergraduate Symposium, visit http://undergradsymposium.oregon.edu.
New this year:
The 2017 Symposium is debuting the integration of “Academic Residential Communities Day” to support the curriculum of Academic Residential Communities (ARC), which foster a scaffolded engagement with undergraduate research for first- and second-year students throughout the academic year in their ARC seminar courses. ARC Faculty Directors, Program Coordinators, peer mentors, and ARC students will deliver group presentations sharing their experiential, applied, and community-engaged research projects beginning with the Umoja Pan-African Scholars and LGBTQIA+ Scholars ARCs.
Highlights:
- 128 poster presentations in the EMU Ballroom starting at 5:00 pm
- 87 oral presentations during three concurrent sessions beginning at 10:00 am
- 12 creative work projects beginning at 3:30 pm
- 119 presenters received research funding from 61 internal and external sources
Quick Facts:
Date: Thursday, May 20, 2016
Location: EMU
Time: 10:00 am – 7:15 pm (see full schedule below)
Total presentations: 235 (a new record!)
Total presenters and co-presenters: 281
Total faculty mentors: 177
Total majors represented: 59
Science projects: 104
Social science projects: 68
Humanities projects: 44
Fine/Performance Arts projects: 6
Design Projects: 5
Symposium Schedule
Registration/Check-in Opens 9:00 am
Concurrent Oral Session 1 10:00 am – 11:30 pm
Session 1a, Maple Room
Survival and/of the Fittest: Fatigue, Stress, Mutation, and Potential – Maple Room: Session 1a
Session 1b, Oak Room
Speaking in Tongues: Accents, Variations, and Interpretations
Session 1c, Swindells Room
Women’s and Feminist Stories, Histories, and Legacies
Session 1d, Cedar Room
Patriot, Protester, Spectacle: Representations of Blackness in the United States
Session 1e, Spruce Room
Jorge Luis Borges and his Poetics of Rewriting
Session 1f, Gumwood Room
Native American Studies and Decolonizing Research
Session 1g, Redwood
Oregon Undergraduate Research Journal: Ongoing Issues of Representation: Stereotypes and the Practice of Research
Concurrent Oral Session 2 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Session 2a, Maple Room
Global Health & Development: Contemporary Issues, Student Perspectives
Session 2b, Oak Room
How We Perceive, How We Learn: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Session 2c, Swindells Room
Thinking Globally: New Approaches, Social Implications, and “Asparagus Justice”
Session 2d, Cedar Room
Of Bees and Men: Pursuing Questions of Climate, Restoration, and Ecology
Session 2e, Spruce Room
Making Connections, Understanding Choices: Issues and Opportunities Facing Today’s Students and Young Adults
Session 2f, Gumwood Room
Humanities Undergraduate Research Fellowship: Truth, Experimentation, and Spectacle: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Session 2g, Redwood
Stories of Yesterday and Visions of Tomorrow in the Field of Literary Studies
Concurrent Oral Session 3 1:45 pm – 3:15 pm
Session 3a, Maple Room
From Particles to Galaxies: Research in Chemistry, Physics, and Computer Science
Session 3b, Oak Room
Environmental Education and Environmental Leadership Program
Session 3c, Swindells Room
Thinking “Green”: Seeing, Imagining, and Interpreting Environmental Studies
Session 3d, Cedar Room
Pieces of the Whole: Ecology, Evolution and Design
Session 3e, Spruce Room
The Way Things Were: Resources, Customs and Cultures in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods
Session 3f, Gumwood Room
Interpreting the Inner “I,” Limiting the Eagle Eye: Philosophical Considerations
Session 3g, Redwood
Rewriting Curriculum, Reimagining the World: New Approaches to Educational Design
Session 3h, Bean East Conference Room
Humans and Their Interactions with Nature
Creative Works Session 4 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Session 4a, Maple Room
Steeped in Sri Lanka: A Multimedia Exploration
Session 4b, Oak Room
Understanding the Creative Aspect of Music
Session 4c, Swindells Room
Sound Manipulation Techniques and “Meditations of Bilateral Consequences
Session 4d, EMU Ballroom
Piano Performances
Reception and Remarks 5:00 pm
Lisa Freinkel, Vice Provost & Dean of Undergraduate Studies
Andrew Nelson, Associate Vice President for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Benjamín Aleman, Assistant Professor of Physics
Poster Session 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Posters and creative work installations on display in the EMU Ballroom
Academic Residential Communities and FIG Session 5 5:20 pm – 7:00 pm
Session 5a, Maple Room
Our Bodies, Our Country, Our World: Freshman Interest Group
Session 5b, Oak Room
The History of Black Resistance from Phillis Wheatley to Martin Luther King: Their Contributions and Our Questions: Umoja Pan-African Scholars Academic Residential Community
Session 5c, Spruce Room
Project Pronoun: The LGBTQIA+ Scholars Academic Residential Community Year-Long Colloquium Project