NCUR 2012 Final Report Weber State University Dr. John Cavitt June 2012 Table of Contents Program Recap .............................................................................................................................................. 3 Program Schedule ..................................................................................................................................... 3 Conference Highlights ............................................................................................................................... 5 Plenary Speakers ....................................................................................................................................... 5 Conference Photographs .......................................................................................................................... 7 Branding, Program, and Giveaways ........................................................................................................ 10 Financial Data .............................................................................................................................................. 11 Revenue and Expense Summary ............................................................................................................. 12 Revenue and Expense Detail ................................................................................................................... 13 Statistics and Other Data ............................................................................................................................ 13 General Attendance Data ....................................................................................................................... 13 Summary of All Registrants, Attendance, and Payment Status .............................................................. 14 Ethnicity of Participants .......................................................................................................................... 14 Ethnicity of Participants by Gender ........................................................................................................ 14 Ethnicity of Presenters by Discipline ....................................................................................................... 14 Gender of Student Presenters by Discipline ........................................................................................... 17 Overview of Abstracts Submitted, Accepted & Rejected: 2007-2012 .................................................... 19 Overview of Abstracts by Presentation Type .......................................................................................... 19 Student Abstracts Submitted, Rejected & Withdrawn by Discipline ...................................................... 20 Summary of Geographical Areas Represented by Attendees................................................................. 23 Summary of Institutions and Geographical Areas Represented by Students and Faculty/Administrator (FAN) Submitted Abstracts ..................................................................................................................... 24 Number of Student Abstracts Accepted From Each Participating Institution ........................................ 25 Graduate & Professional Studies Fair: Programs Represented .............................................................. 40 Advertisers in the Program Book ............................................................................................................ 42 NCUR 2012 Local Arrangements Information ............................................................................................. 43 Weber State University Local Arrangements: Organization, Areas of Special Emphasis, Program Changes, Attendance, Mobile Website .................................................................................................. 43 2 Program Recap Program Schedule Wednesday, March 28, 2012 4:00 – 7:00 p.m. Registration Shepherd Union - 404 A&B Thursday, March 29, 2012 7:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Registration Shepherd Union - 404 A&B 7:00 – 9:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast Shepherd Union 8:30–9:50 a.m. Session 1 Poster Sessions: Shepherd Union- Ballroom B&C Oral Sessions: Classrooms Performing Sessions: Browning Center 10:00 – 11:30 a.m. Opening Ceremony Plenary Speaker 1: Mario R.Capecchi Browning Center - Austad Auditorium Simulcast Available: Shepherd Union - Wildcat Theater and Elizabeth Hall Room 229 11:45 – 2:00 p.m. Lunch Shepherd Union 11:40–1:00 p.m. Session 2 Poster Sessions: Shepherd Union- Ballroom B&C Oral Sessions: Classrooms Performing Sessions: Browning Center 12:00 - 1:00p.m. FAN Session 1 Marriot Allied Health Student Special Sessions Elizabeth Hall Wattis Business 12:00 – 5:00 p.m. Graduate and Professional Studies Fair Student Union 1:10 – 2:30 p.m. Session 3 Poster Sessions: Shepherd Union- Ballroom B&C Oral Sessions: Classrooms Performing Sessions: Browning Center 2:40 –4:00 p.m. Session 4 Poster Sessions: Shepherd Union- Ballroom B&C Oral Sessions: Classrooms Performing Sessions: Browning Center 4:15– 5:00 p.m. Moving Company Performance: COIL, collaboration – Free Admissions Browning Center 6:00 – 10:00 p.m. Notorious 25th Street Ogden 25th Street Friday, March 30, 2012 7:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Registration Shepherd Union 404 A&B 7:00 – 9:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast Shepherd Union 7:15 – 8:15 a.m. Undergraduate Research Summit Shepherd Union – Wildcat Theater 8:30–9:50 a.m. Session 5 Poster Sessions: Shepherd Union- Ballroom B&C Oral Sessions: Classrooms Performing Sessions: Browning Center Visual Arts Sessions: Kimball Visual Arts Center –Shaw Gallery 3 10:00 – 11:30 a.m. Plenary Speaker 2: Anne Fadiman Browning Center - Austad Auditorium Simulcast Available: Shepherd Union - Wildcat Theater and Elizabeth Hall Room 229 11:45 – 2:00 p.m. Lunch Shepherd Union 11:40–1:00 p.m. Session 6 Poster Sessions: Shepherd Union- Ballroom B&C Oral Sessions: Classrooms Performing Sessions: Browning Center Visual Arts Sessions: Kimball Visual Arts Center –Shaw Gallery 12:00 - 1:00p.m. FAN Session 2 Marriot Allied Health Student Special Sessions Shepherd Union - Fireplace Lounge Elizabeth Hall Wattis Business 12:00 – 5:00 p.m. Graduate and Professional Studies Fair Student Union 1:10 – 2:30 p.m. Session 7 Poster Sessions: Shepherd Union- Ballroom B&C Oral Sessions: Classrooms Performing Sessions: Browning Center Visual Arts Sessions: Kimball Visual Arts Center –Shaw Gallery 2:40 –4:00 p.m. Session 8 Poster Sessions: Shepherd Union- Ballroom B&C Oral Sessions: Classrooms Performing Sessions: Browning Center Visual Arts Sessions: Kimball Visual Arts Center –Shaw Gallery 4:10–5:30 p.m. Session 9 Poster Sessions: Shepherd Union- Ballroom B&C Oral Sessions: Classrooms Performing Sessions: Browning Center Visual Arts Sessions: Kimball Visual Arts Center –Shaw Gallery 5:00 –6:00 p.m. NCUR Oversight Committee Reception – for Faculty, Staff and Adminstrators only Stewart Stadium Sky Suites 3rd Floor 8:30 – 11:30 p.m. Purple Crush – Free Admissions Shepherd Union - Atrium 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. Art Exhibition Reception -Free Admissions Kimball Visual Arts Center –Shaw Gallery Saturday, March 31, 2012 7:00–11:00 a.m. Registration Shepherd Union - 404 A&B 7:00 – 9:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast Shepherd Union 8:30–9:50 a.m. Session 10 Poster Sessions: Shepherd Union- Ballroom B&C Oral Sessions: Classrooms Performing Sessions: Browning Center 10:00 – 11:30 a.m. Plenary Speaker 3: Paul Alan Cox Browning Center - Austad Auditorium Simulcast Available: Simulcast Available: Shepherd Union - Wildcat Theater and Elizabeth Hall Room 229 11:00 – 1:30 p.m. Lunch Shepherd Union 11:45 a.m. EXCURSIONS 4 Conference Highlights 2,759 abstracts were approved from among 3,208 submitted (78 were withdrawn): o 1,404 Oral o 13 Performing Arts o 1,303 Poster o 39 Visual Arts 3,175 people registered for the conference representing 291 institutions from 44 states, the District of Colombia, Canada, Puerto Rico, the UK, and the United Arab Emirates. The program included three plenary sessions: o Mario R. Capecchi o Anne Fadiman o Paul Alan Cox 88 programs were participated in the Graduate and Professional Studies Fair. 16 FAN sessions were presented We recruited approximately 300 student volunteers and 200 oral session moderators. NCUR mobile website was viewed 10,554 times during the week of the conference. Plenary Speakers Mario R. Capecchi Nobel Laureate THE MAKING OF A SCIENTIST: AN UNLIKELY JOURNEY Mario R. Capecchi is a Nobel laureate and Distinguished Professor of Human Genetics and Biology at the University of Utah. He is best known for his pioneering work on the development of gene targeting in mouse embryo-derived stem cells. This technology allows scientists to create animal models for many human diseases, including cancer. In 2007, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Oliver Smithies and Martin Evans "for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells. Anne Fadiman Award-winning Author, Essayist, and Editor THE SPIRIT CATCHES YOU AND YOU FALL DOWN: A LECTURE BY ANNE FADIMAN Anne Fadiman is an award winning author, essayist and editor. As the inaugural Francis Writer in Residence at Yale University, she served as a professor in the English department and as a mentor to students interested in careers in writing or editing. 5 Plenary Speakers (Continued) Her first book, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down,