Posters showing the summer work of around 90 undergraduates, plus a keynote address by new VCEA Dean Mary Rezac, are open to the public this Friday in the Smith Center for Undergraduate Education.
Dr. Rezac will address the students in a presentation starting at 9 a.m. in CUE 202.
The poster presentations will run from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. in the nearby CUE Atrium, also on the second floor.
The student researchers worked for the past 10 weeks of so with top WSU faculty researchers and their teams. Projects ranged from bioscience to landscape ecology, the atmosphere to smart environments, biofuels to plant genomics, and much more.
The students came to WSU from more than 50 universities (including WSU). Support for the students came from the National Science Foundation’s Research Experience for Undergraduates program, the U.S.D.A., and faculty members’ grants.
“Faculty seek undergraduates to join their teams in summer because they want to mentor the next generation, and they know these students make tremendous contributions to their ongoing projects,” according to Shelley Pressley, director of the Office of Undergraduate Research, part of WSU Undergraduate Education.
“The students benefit by gaining valuable hands-on experience with research and creative activities, and build their resumes while learning about WSU, its great researchers, and having fun.”
Read the students’ poster abstracts and about some of the summer programs at https://SummerResearch.wsu.edu. For feature vignettes on some of the WSU (and Pullman High School) students doing summer research, visit https://news.wsu.edu/2017/07/28/summer-undergrad-research-symposium/, a story prepared by the Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture with Undergraduate Research.