April 25, 2013
2013 Undergraduate Research Day
Enter the 3-minute competition by 5 p.m. Friday, April 19.
The Office of Undergraduate Research will hold a Celebration of Undergraduate Research on Thursday, April 25, 2013, in the Claire T. Carney Library Grand Reading Room, from 2-4p.m.
Undergraduate students engaged in research can present a 3 minute talk.
Research is understood to mean any form of activity, situated in a discipline and utilizing the standards of that discipline, that sets out to solve a well-posed problem. Students currently carry out research in all Colleges of the University and this Celebration of Undergraduate Research Day is aimed at heightening awareness of the excellent research that is being done by undergraduates.
3-minute talks will be carried out as a competition with a pre-selection panel and a judging panel on the day.
Prizes for the 3-minute competition will be awarded as follows:
- 1st prize: $1,000
- 2nd prize: $500
- 3rd prize: $250
- Audience favorite: $250
All entries will be examined by a pre-selection panel, and only those selected by that panel will be able to present in the competition.
The criteria used by the pre-selection panel will be:
- Clarity of expression of the research abstract and the problem addressed.
- The importance of the research.
- The broader impact of the research.
- Future directions for research.
The 3-minute competition will be carried out under the following rules:
- All entrants have 3 minutes to present their research topic to an audience and a panel of judges
- Each entrant may have one overhead slide (still, not animated)
- With 10 seconds to go, entrants will receive a signal. At 3 minutes entrants will get the sign to stop and anyone not finishing within 10 seconds after 3 minutes will be disqualified
- The judges' decision is final
Enter the 3-minute competition by 5 p.m. Friday, April 19. No late applications will be considered.
October 8, 2012
Office of Undergraduate Research Announces Student Workshops
OUR will hold this fall. All students and faculty engaged or interested in undergraduate research are welcome. Topics include:
- Applying for grants
- Giving an oral presentation
- Finding a research topic and advisor
The meeting room LIB-226 will hold approximately 30 people.
For more information contact Gary Davis or Alfa Heryudono.
April 20, 2012
Undergraduate Research Day Results
UMass Dartmouth students took home $2250 in prizes at the first ever Celebration of Undergraduate Research, held in the Main Auditorium on April 19, 2012. Students from diverse areas of study successfully presented their research before an audience of peers, professors, parents, and judges.
Kevin Jumper's presentation titled Exploding stars: cosmic forges and candles, was awarded the top $1000 prize.
Stacey Miner's presentation on Parents' perceptions of their adolescent children's experiences with violence compared to adolescents’ self-reports of experiences with violence took the second place prize of $500, while Chris DiFranco's presentation titled Chemical and electrical resistance of conducting polymers took third place and the $250 prize.
Panel of judges
- Lou Petrovic, Director of the Advanced Technology Manufacturing Center, and Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research Development
- Steve Urbon, journalist for the New Bedford Standard Times
- Isabel Rodrigues, Associate Professor, Anthropology
- Cynthia Ladino, full time lecturer, Biology
- Laura Jean Champagne, former biology student, now graduate student in education
- Andrew Davey, Physics undergraduate
- Jill Mercik, Engineering undergraduate
- Sidafa Conde, Business undergraduate
April 20, 2012
Timothy Boardman wins research award
Biology senior Timothy Boardman, has been honored with the American Association of Immunologist Undergraduate Research Excellence Award. In addition, Timothy has been accpeted to the UMass Medical School.
"The research helped me 100% with my med school application," said Timothy, whose research focused on kidney blood flow and its relationship to lymphocyte distribution in rainbow trout.
Through his research, Timothy was able to characterize the immune cell distribution in the kidney of a trout.
April 20, 2012
Kevin Jumper receives APS award
The American Physical Society's award for the best undergrduate presentation was awarded to Kevin Jumper who is also the recipient of the $1000 first place prize for presenting his research on exploding stars at the Celebration of Undergraduate Research on April 19.
Undergraduate Research Day
The Office of Undergraduate Research will hold a Celebration of Undergraduate Research on Thursday, April 19, 2012, in the Main Auditorium and surrounding area, from 2-6p.m.
Undergraduate students engaged in research can elect to present a poster, a 3 minute talk, or both.
Research is understood to mean any form of activity, situated in a discipline and utilizing the standards of that discipline, that sets out to solve a well-posed problem. Students currently carry out research in all Colleges of the University and this Celebration of Undergraduate Research Day is aimed at heightening awareness of the excellent research that is being done by undergraduates.
3-minute talks will be carried out as a competition with a pre-selection panel and a judging panel on the day.
Prizes for the 3-minute competition will be awarded as follows:
- 1st prize: $1,000
- 2nd prize: $500
- 3rd prize: $250
- Audience favorite: $250
There will also be a $250 best poster award.
All entries will be examined by a pre-selection panel, and only those selected by that panel will be able to present in the competition.
The criteria used by the pre-selection panel will be:
- Clarity of expression of the research abstract and the problem addressed.
- The importance of the research.
- The broader impact of the research.
- Future directions for research.
We anticipate approximately 45-50 selected entries for the 3-minute competition.
The 3-minute competition will be carried out under the following rules:
- All entrants have 3 minutes to present their research topic to an audience and a panel of judges
- Each entrant may have one overhead slide (still, not animated)
- With 10 seconds to go, entrants will receive a signal. At 3 minutes entrants will get the sign to stop and anyone not finishing within 10 seconds after 3 minutes will be disqualified
- The judges' decision is final
3-minute research presentations
| Student | Advisor | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Jess Andreason | Jen Riley | The historical, cultural, and academic contexts of the graphic narrative in the U.S. |
|
Jeffrey Beaudry |
Sukalyan Sengupta | Selective removal of phosphate from wastewater using ion exchange resin beads |
|
Timothy Boardman |
Erin Bromage | Kidney blood flow and its relationship to lymphocyte distribution in the rainbow trout |
|
Felecia Clodius |
Guillermo Paz-y-Mino | Dominance hierarchy formation and potential applications in laboratory research using a model organism, the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata) |
|
Jennifer Denker |
Heidi Berggren | Addressing the epidemic of sex trafficking in Massachusetts |
|
Chris DiFranco |
Qinguo Fan | Chemical and electrical resistance of conducting polymers |
|
Tiffany Ferreira |
Grant O'Rielly | Solar electricity: Maximizing current and voltage produced by photovoltaic cells |
|
Nevin Goulet |
Dapeng Li, Paul Calvert | Mechanisms of UV degradation |
|
Katherine Hurley |
Angappa Gunasekaran | Lowe’s and Home Depot in a concentrated market |
|
Peter Jumper |
Robert Fisher | The mysteries of “Failed Stars” |
|
Kevin Jumper |
Robert Fisher | Exploding stars: Cosmic forges and candles |
|
Ryan Lehane |
David Manke | Carbon dioxide capture using Lewis base derivatized metal-organic frameworks |
|
Matheus Lelis |
Sigal Gottlieb |
The power of social networking: using Facebook’s Open Graph data to quantify user activity on the world’s largest social network |
|
Charles Lu |
Frederick Jones | A conceptual framework for privacy auditors to perform effective continuous audits that assures a company's internal controls of privacy |
|
Stacey Miner |
Robin Robinson | Parents’ perceptions of their adolescent children's experiences with violence compared to adolescents’ self-reports of experiences with violence |
|
Dylan Quinn |
Thomas Boone | Emotional and nonverbal communication style and student satisfaction |
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Prakruthi Siddaramu |
Yanlai Chen | Predicting economic activity through internet search trends |
|
Iliya Ivanov Yanachkov |
Andres Xavier Echarri | Tales of Beast and Man: Translated works of Hristo Pelitev from Bulgarian to English and Spanish |
Poster presentations
| Student | Advisor | Topic |
|---|---|---|
|
Timothy Boardman |
Erin Bromage | Kidney blood flow and its relationship to lymphocyte distribution in the rainbow trout |
|
Jennifer Denker |
Heidi Berggren | Addressing the epidemic of sex trafficking in Massachusetts |
|
Chris DiFranco |
Qinguo Fan | Chemical and electrical resistance of conducting polymers |
|
Kaira Fox |
Tracie Ferreira | Patterning of brain tissue and defective signaling |
|
Nevin Goulet |
Dapeng Li, Paul Calvert | Mechanisms of UV degradation |
|
Matheus Lelis |
Sigal Gottlieb |
The power of social networking: using Facebook’s Open Graph data to quantify user activity on the world’s largest social network |
|
Charles Lu |
Frederick Jones | A conceptual framework for privacy auditors to perform effective continuous audits that assures a company's internal controls of privacy |
|
David Prairie |
Marguerite Zarrillo |
Survey of security and privacy breaches in electronic transportation payment systems |
|
Jessica Reilly |
Tracie Ferreira | Characterizing genes involved in craniofacial development |
|
Prakruthi Siddaramu |
Yanlai Chen | Predicting economic activity through internet search trends |
|
Vanessa Vieira |
David Manke | Activity of TGF-β R II in neural crest cells and lung morphogenesis during fetal lung development |
For questions contact Gary Davis, x8739 or gdavis@umassd.edu.
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