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Columns::April 15, 2002
The Golden Arch
Magazine ranks business, law, education among nation’s best
Four candidates for deanship to visit campus
Annual children’s literature conference opens April 18
Charleston mayor to discuss downtown preservation
Team-building ‘eggs-cellence’
Testing the waters
Making media a method
Teaching students is ‘elementary’ for mathematics education prof
Rick Watson, MIS professor, named Internet Strategy chairholder
Newsmakers
In the swim
Campus News
Two-day statewide symposium highlights undergraduate research
By Joelle Prine
jprine@uga.edu
Heather Howdeshell, a senior anthropology major, is making an important scholarly contribution as she finishes the study of lost artifacts excavated from the Lake Springs site on the Savannah River by Joseph Caldwell in 1951. She, along with more
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than 100 students from various disciplines, will make presentations at the third statewide Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities Symposium on April 15 at UGA’s Tate Student Center. Visual and performing arts exhibitions will be held in Memorial Ballroom on April 16.
CURO, a part of the Honors Program, supports undergraduate research guided by faculty. The center gives students like Howdeshell, who will receive the Joshua Laerm Award for Undergraduate Research at the symposium, the opportunity to address research issues and discuss their scholarly and creative works, including learning from one another.
“Our undergraduates are increasingly looking for opportunities to investigate under the tutelage of premier researchers at UGA,” says Pamela Kleiber, CURO coordinator and an associate director of the Honors Program. “Their scholarly work includes making new discoveries and bringing new perspectives on issues and problems, continuing the previous work of scholars and building on existing knowledge.”
Steven Stice, UGA’s Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Animal Reproductive Physiology, will be the
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keynote speaker. He will give his lecture on the implications of human stem cell research at 4 p.m. on April 15. Stice and a team of researchers from the department of animal and dairy science and ProLinia, Inc., a local biotech company, are credited with cloning eight calves last year, following on Stice’s first successful attempt with transgenic calves George and Charlie in 1998. The breakthrough technology used has improved the success rate of cloning to one in seven, almost three times higher than it was two years ago.
Projects to be presented at the 2002 symposium include Ben Emanuel’s literary critique of two contemporary films adapted from William Shakespeare’s Henry IV and Joseph Edward’s experiments involving the pig cloning process at the department of animal and dairy science. The two-day event features concurrent presentations by student researchers, poster sessions, a student art exhibition and an awards ceremony for best papers in the sciences, social sciences and humanities. Undergraduate faculty mentors also will be honored. An evening concert by the UGA Symphony Band will be held in Hodgson Hall of the Performing Arts Center at 8 p.m. on April 16.
“It’s always exciting to see the bright, motivated students, who have worked diligently with their faculty mentors for semesters, share their discoveries with the university community,” Kleiber says. “The CURO Symposium spotlights research as part of the undergraduate experience at UGA.”
Corporate sponsorship has supported the symposia in 2001 and 2002. Noramco, a pharmaceutical company with an Athens facility, is sponsoring this year’s event, which is free and open to the public. UGA and Noramco also have partnered to develop cooperative work-study programs for UGA undergraduates.
Fifteen CURO students, including four Foundation Fellows, will be attending the National Conference on Undergraduate Research on April 25-27 at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. More than a thousand students are invited to present their research findings at this annual conference. |
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