Three Union College students will showcase their work in the first “Independent Sector Undergraduate Research Exposition” Tuesday, Jan. 22 at the Legislative Office Building in Albany.
The students are among 70 chosen statewide by a faculty review panel for the one-day event, which features a display of student research posters and special presentations. A book chronicling all of the research projects will be given to state legislators.
Union students selected:
Jasmine Maldonado ’09
Faculty sponsor: Linda Patrik, Philosophy
“The Death Penalty and Its Social Ramifications”
Crystal Smith ’08
Faculty sponsor: Rebecca Surman, Physics and Astronomy
“Analysis of Proton-Rich Elemental Abundances Created in Outflows from Gamma-Ray Burst Accretion Disks”
LaToya Roper ‘08
Faculty sponsor: Joanne Kehlbeck, Chemistry
“Using Polypeptoids to Examine Cellular Uptake”
The Undergraduate Research Exposition is sponsored by the Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities, which represents the chief executives of New York’s 100-plus independent (private, not-for-profit) colleges and universities on issues of public policy.
CICU officials credited Jill Salvo, associate professor of Biology and director of the College’s Government Grants Program at Union, with helping organize the inaugural expo.
Salvo was familiar with similar events in other states and wanted to give New York legislators an opportunity to view the broad range of undergraduate research being conducted regularly on campuses across the state.
“We know how wonderful our own Steinmetz Symposium is each year, so this takes a little bit of that right to them for a day,” said Salvo. “I felt there was no better way to let our state representatives see the talent and creativity of our students.”