Undergraduate researchers – 59 from 37 universities including WSU – will share their summer work at the annual Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium for 2014 this Friday, Aug. 1, in the Smith CUE.
Working with top WSU professors and their teams on a variety of research projects, the students have spent on average 10 weeks at our university. They have investigated topics ranging from cherry genetics to shock wave responses to climate models, and much, much more!
Please join the WSU Office of Undergraduate Research, part of the Office of Undergraduate Education, for their Symposium.
9:30 a.m. in Smith CUE 203
Opening remarks will be by Shelley Pressley, director of undergraduate research and a welcome by William Andrefsky, dean of the WSU Graduate School.
The inaugural symposium keynote address, “Undergraduate Research and the Secret of Happiness,” will be delivered by M. Grant Norton, dean of the WSU Honors College and materials science engineering researcher.
10 a.m. – 1 p.m. in the nearby second-floor Smith CUE Atrium
The summer student researchers will display posters of their work and be on hand to discuss their efforts, projects, and results.
On the http://UndergraduateResearch.wsu.edu website you can link to a book of the students’ abstracts as well as stories about some of the PIs in more than eight summer programs. They are funded by NSF, U.S.D.A, and private grants.
Please join us!
