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Spring 2020
Presentations
Spring Symposium Booklet
Letter from the Dean
Welcome Video from Office of Undergraduate Research
About the 2020 Spring Symposium
Every spring the Office of Undergraduate Research hosts an annual showcase to celebrate the research and creative scholarship of undergraduate students across WVU. This year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, our office was forced to re-envision our 4th Annual Undergraduate Research Spring Symposium from the ground up.
We are very proud of the accomplishments of our students throughout the academic year, so we saw it as vital and necessary to move forward with a virtual platform. In turn, this year the Undergraduate Spring Symposium is launching Thursday, April 16th at noon and will be interactive through Thursday, April 30th, 2020.
To all guests visiting our virtual symposium, our hope is that you explore the presentations students have put together and a develop a deeper understanding of topics that most readily pique your interests.
To all students visiting our virtual symposium, our hope is that you benefit from knowing the breadth of research and creative scholarship your peers are partaking in. You, too, can develop a rewarding relationship with a faculty mentor and pursue experiential learning opportunities like those featured in this symposium.
Research is core to the identity of the WVU institution, the students that choose to attend WVU, and state it serves in through its land-grant initiative. Since the Office of Undergraduate Research was established in 2015, we have played a part in this mission to enhance academic excellence through undergraduate research and creative endeavors. Our goal is to connect undergraduate students who have strong and committed interests in research and creative endeavors to faculty members, programs, and research-related opportunities that are aligned with their interests. We hope you find these resources throughout this website.
Please enjoy the 4th Annual Undergraduate Spring Symposium, and remember to sign our guestbook!
Organizing Committee
Dr. Michelle Richards-Babb, Director, Office of Undergraduate Research
Dr. Cinthia Pacheco, Assistant Director, Office of Undergraduate Research
Paige Zalman, Program Coordinator, RAP and Office of Undergraduate Research
Kevin Walden, Program Coordinator, Office of Undergraduate Research
Jacqueline Loud, Administrative Assistant, Office of Undergraduate Research
We
want to take this opportunity to thank our undergraduate presenters. Their
willingness to present and discuss their scholarly activities in virtual
format is greatly appreciated.
In addition, thank you to our faculty mentors. Scholarly activities, such as research and creative endeavors, enrich the academic training of our students by establishing mentoring relationships and promoting intellectual independence and curiosity. Our students are indebted to the faculty who mentor them in research!
And finally, we would like extend a special thanks to all who have helped pull
this event together: Adam Glenn, Sarah Gould, Cathy Orndorff, Jay Allen, Adam
Johnson, Lisa Stender, Jason Kapcala, Colleen Good, Donna Sibray, Carinna
Ferguson, Stephanie Augustine, Alex Davidson, Madison Brooks, Kayla Tokar,
and Kaley Vestal.
Sponsors
The Fourth Annual Undergraduate Spring Symposium, which enhances scholarly opportunities for undergraduate students attending West Virginia University, has been enriched by the contributions, funding or otherwise, provided by the WVU programs below. We are deeply appreciative and want to thank all our sponsors for their time, effort and support of scholarly activities at WVU. Thanks to:
