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Columns::April 14, 2003
Regents will meet at UGA for first time in nearly 20 years
Stoneman, IHDD director, is named University Professor
Four UGA schools among nation’s best in annual magazine ranking
Lineup of artists for Performing Arts Center’s 2003-04 season is announced
A sight for sore eyes
EITS begins preparation for migration to UGAMail
Campus Closeup
Ag and environmental sciences names human resources director
Update: Private Giving
Newsmakers
Extended academic programs
Cultural exchange
Campus News
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| Senior Shelly Stover (left) has prepared a commedia de ll’arte piece for the symposium with the guidance of drama professor Stanley Longman. (Photo by Peter Frey) |
Scholarly works
More than 100 undergraduate researchers make presentations at annual statewide CURO Symposium
By Joelle Prine
jprine@uga.edu
About 125 undergraduate researchers from various disciplines will make presentations at the annual statewide Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities Symposium on April 14-15 at the Tate Student Center. Visual and performing arts exhibitions will be included in the two-day event, which is free and open to the public.
CURO, a part of UGA’s Honors Program, supports undergraduate research guided by faculty. The symposium is a venue where students can address research i
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| Freshman Alicia Gourdine will present her campaign finance research, prepared with the guidance of political science professor Christopher Allen. (Photo by Peter Frey) |
ssues, discuss their scholarly and creative works, and learn from one another. Students from UGA, Agnes Scott College, Emory University and Gainesville College will participate.
“We are delighted to welcome students and faculty from other sister institutions in Georgia,” says Pamela Kleiber, CURO coordinator and an associate director of the Honors Program. “Expansion of the symposium to a statewide level allows our undergraduates to interact with their peers from other colleges and universities, and contributes to a broadened perspective on scholarship for all students who attend the symposium.”
Judith Ortiz Cofer, Franklin Professor of English and Creative Writing at UGA, will give the keynote address on “Moving Between Worlds: Language Inquiry and Creativity” at 4 p.m. on April 14. Her published works include The Line of the Sun, Woman in Front of the Sun: On Becoming a Writer and Terms of Survival. Cofer has earned numerous awards for her writing, including UGA’s Christ-Janer Award for outstanding creativity and scholarship in the arts and humanities.
Projects represented at the 2003 symposium include James Norman’s research in stream ecology, which focuses on how protozoa and fungi are affected by dissolved organic carbon, and Alicia Gourdine’s investigation into campaign finance reform to see how mandated free airtime for political candidates may better serve the public interest. Norman is a senior in ecology at UGA, and Gourdine is a UGA freshman in political science and international affairs.
The two-day symposium features concurrent presentations of student research, poster sessions and a student art exhibition. Among the presentations is a one-woman show that Shelly Stover, a senior Honors student in advertising and drama, will perform in the style of commedia dell’arte. Through this Italian comic form, she will illustrate how a person can have different social identities.
“Shelly became a wonderfully versatile performer in the tradition and rose to become the head of our commedia troupe, the Commedianti Georgiani,” says Stanley Longman, head of UGA’s drama department and Stover’s faculty mentor. “It is now the very subject of her Honors thesis project, to which she is bringing that same enthusiasm.”
An awards ceremony for best papers in the sciences, social sciences and humanities will be held on April 15 at 4 p.m. A new category has been added for papers from any discipline with an international focus.
Undergraduate research mentoring awards also will be given at that time to Jody Clay-Warner, an assistant professor in sociology (Faculty Award); to Marie-Michèle Cordonnier-Pratt and Lee Pratt, plant biology professors (Program Award); and to the department of microbiology at UGA (Department Award).
UGA’s Biomedical and Health Sciences Institute will announce the 2003 CURO biomedical summer fellows, who will each receive $2,500 research fellowships.
Noramco, a pharmaceutical company with an Athens facility, will again provide corporate sponsorship for the event.
Additional sponsors for 2003 include UGA’s Research Foundation and the local chapters of Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society and the Association for Women in Science.
Nine students participating in CURO also attended the National Conference on Undergraduate Research at the University of Utah in March.
More than a thousand students from across the country are invited to present their research at this annual conference. |
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