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Undergraduate Research Symposium 2018 Event Program Celebrating undergraduate research, scholarship, and creativity Undergraduate Research Symposium 2018 Presentation Awards May 17, 2018 Table of Contents High Impact Practices Letter from Division of Undergraduate Studies ...........................................................................3 Experts in Higher Education studies will tell you that undergraduate research in its Advertisments .............................................................................................................................................4 many forms is a “high impact practice”: it offers a dramatic opportunity for student engagement and success. We couldn’t agree more! Those of us involved in this Presentation Awards ................................................................................................................................ 6 Symposium have seen at close range those amazing “aha” moments when a student Agenda ...........................................................................................................................................................8 May 17,May 2018 17, 2018realizes that she has uncovered something on the very front lines of human culture Acknowledgments..................................................................................................................................... 9 and knowledge. Whether these contributions take place in a lab, in the archives, with a museum installation,High in aImpactHigh dance Impact studio,Practices Practicesat a drafting table, at an easel, on the Presentations Sessions Schedule .......................................................................................................11 stage, or even in the streets: we know that undergraduate innovation transforms Experts in Higher Education studies will tell you that undergraduate research in its many forms is a “high Venue Maps ................................................................................................................................................17 Experts inundergraduate Higher Education lives. studies will tell you that undergraduate research in its many forms is a “high impactimpact practice”: practice”: it offers it aoffers dramatic a dramatic opportunity opportunity for student for student engagement engagement and success. and success. We couldn’t We couldn’t agree more!agree Thosemore! ofThose us involved of us involved in this Symposiumin this Symposium have seen have at seen close at range close thoserange amazing those amazing “aha” “aha” Presentation Abstracts ...........................................................................................................................21 We also know that these opportunities are crucial not only for the individuals momentsmoments when a when student a student realizes realizes that she that has she uncovered has uncovered something something on the onvery the front very lines front of lines human of human involved, but for the very institution of Higher Ed itself. The impact of these “high Academic Residential Communities Abstracts ...........................................................................21 cultureculture and knowledge. and knowledge. 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Josh SnodgrassJoshJosh Snodgrass KevinKevin Hatfield HatfieldKevin Hatfield Co-Chair,CoCo-Chair, -UndergraduateChair, Undergraduate Co-Chair,Co-Chair,Co Undergraduate -UndergraduateChair, Undergraduate Symposium Symposium Symposium Planning Planning Planning Committee Committee Committee Symposium Symposium Planning Planning Committee Planning Committee Committee 2 3 Want to publish your honors thesis? Research project? Term paper? Creative work? OURJ is a student-run, open access, scholarly publication that showcases University of Oregon undergraduate work in every eld. Fall issue submission deadline: Saturday June 30th, 2018 For more information and submission guidelines, visit blogs.uoregon.edu/ourj OUR Journal is a program of the UO Libraries. Questions? [email protected] The Museum of Natural and Cultural History presents Distinguished Scholarships THE MNCH UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH POSTER AWARD URO P Competitive national and international awards for high-achieving Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program students who show promise as future leaders in their fields PROGRAMS Explore the Opportunities Scholarship Advising D I D Y O U K N O W T H A T MINI-GRANTS: Awards of up to $1,000 to assist with research expenses including supplies, materials, Pursue graduate study in the UK or Ireland Global Scholars Hall equipment, and travel to conduct research. R E S E A R C H . Undergraduate science internships in Germany Room #104 Monday - Thursday Undergraduate study and research in the sciences 4 - 6 pm VPRI UNDERGRAD FELLOWSHIP: 10 week summer research fellowship open to undergraduate Public service graduate study within the US or abroad students from all academic disciplines. Fellows receive a $5,000 stipend. Intensive immersion experiences in critical foreign languages Independent research or teaching assistantships worldwide O’DAY FELLOWSHIP IN BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES: 10 week summer research fellowship open to Study abroad and internship opportunities for low-income undergraduate and graduate student pairs conducting research in the biological sciences. Fellows receive a $5,000 stipend. students UO students have been recipients of prestigious scholarships such as the Rhodes, PRESIDENTIAL UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH SCHOLARS: Academic year research experience Marshall, Truman, Fulbright,