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Still time if you want
to judge for SURCA
While nearly 100 volunteers have signed up to be SURCA judges this Friday afternoon, a few more are needed in select categories for the poster session. If you are a faculty member or post doc in the following areas, please email Ugresearch@wsu.edu for more information:
Applied sciences; arts and design; computer science, mathematics, statistics and information sciences; engineering and physical sciences; molecular, cellular and chemical biology; organismal, population, ecological and evolutionary biology; social sciences. |
PULLMAN, Wash. – Princess Diana, playground design, DNA repair, modern China and Parkinson’s disease are a tiny sampling of the topics the public can learn about at the Showcase for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities (SURCA) on Friday, March 29, at Washington State University.
SURCA is part of Showcase, WSU’s annual celebration of faculty, staff and student excellence. For more information, go to http://showcase.wsu.edu.
Ten oral and 124 poster presentations will display the work of 146 undergraduate researchers. The public is invited to oral presentations noon-3:15 p.m., in the CUB junior ballroom, and poster presentations 3:45-5 p.m., in the CUB senior ballroom. Both are on the second floor of the CUB.
Award presentations in eight categories will begin at 5 p.m. in the junior ballroom.
An abstract book describing the students’ work is available online at http://bit.ly/YCTBuD.
“Participants come from dozens of majors and specializations in six of WSU’s nine academic colleges,” said Shelley Pressley, director of undergraduate research, a program of the University College at WSU, SURCA host. “Thirty-nine of the participants are members of the Honors College and two are from the online Global Campus.”Volunteer judges will evaluate the presentations, and students with the best scores will receive money and certificates. There are awards for experienced as well as novice presenters.
Awards are possible thanks to gifts from the Joseph L. Stubblefield Trust and the Auvil Scholars Fellowship Program. The trust was established through the estate of a pioneering Walla Walla-area farmer in 1901, and scholarships, grants and gifts from it have supported a wide range of student-centered programs and priorities at WSU.
A 2006 gift from the estate of the Grady and Lillie Auvil, Wenatchee tree-fruit entrepreneurs, launched the fellowships to undergraduate researchers; more than 200 awards of $1,000 each have supported student efforts to “design, create and discover” new knowledge in their fields through research.
SURCA presentations involving “mentored research, scholarship and creative activity” (collectively called research) are divided into these categories: engineering and physical sciences; social sciences; humanities; arts and design; computer science, mathematics, statistics and information sciences; molecular, cellular and chemical biology; organismal, population, ecological and evolutionary biology; and applied sciences.
For more information on SURCA 2013, visit http://SURCA.wsu.edu.