Jennifer Mitchell delivered a talk
on “Tensions and Opposition of the Artists in Texts of Virginia Woolf.”
Jackson Reed gave a paper on
“Neutral Meson Photoproduction from the Proton.”
Jaclyn Sisskind presented on “A
Cross-Cultural Look at the Medicalization of Post-Partum Depression and
Alternatives to Present Therapy.”
They were among the 28 students
who returned on Sunday from the 18th National Conference on
Undergraduate Research, hosted by Indiana University-Purdue University
Indianapolis.
The Union group represented one of
the larger contingents, said Ashraf Ghaly, associate professor of civil
engineering, who accompanied the group.
“I was impressed with our
students' confidence and complete command of their research topics,” said
Ghaly, who attended 23 of the Union presentations. ” It was fabulous to see our
students answering the questions with such great confidence. They represented Union
very well. I would say that Union got its money's worth
and more.”
Ghaly gave a presentation at a
concurrent conference of the Undergraduate Research Network titled “Transforming
Successive Education to Concurrent Learning Through Research.” He described a
course in which he had students research and present examples of structures
that failed, asking them to describe what they would do differently.
Also traveling to NCUR were Ann
Anderson, the Thomas J. Watson Sr. and Emma Watson-Day Associate Professor of
Mechanical Engineering, a member of the NCUR Board of Governors; and Tom
Werner, the Florence B. Sherwood Professor of Physical Sciences, former chair of
the NCUR Board of Governors.