{"id":12299,"date":"2012-04-13T14:41:32","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T18:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=12299"},"modified":"2021-09-10T13:49:49","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T17:49:49","slug":"undergraduate-graduate-research-shines-during-annual-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2012\/04\/13\/undergraduate-graduate-research-shines-during-annual-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Undergraduate, graduate research shines during annual celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12303\" style=\"width: 270px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2012\/04\/13\/undergraduate-graduate-research-shines-during-annual-celebration\/c-research-1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12303\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12303\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12303\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2012\/04\/c-research-1-260x198.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Wright State student Nickellatt Edwards\" width=\"260\" height=\"198\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12303\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Undergraduate Nickellatt Edwards presented her research poster titled: Characterization of HIV Rev and Tubulin Interactions.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Modeling the Liquid Phase Exfoliation of Graphene<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Music Instruction for Students Who Are Blind: A Collection of Methods and Materials for the Music Educator<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Supplier Decisions in a Two-Retailer, One-Supplier Transshipment System with Quantity Discounts<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All were among the 134 academically diverse poster and oral presentations presented Friday, April 13, during the Celebration of Research, Scholarship and Creative Activities.<\/p>\n<p>Rich and robust, Wright State University\u2019s student research efforts were on display for the third annual Celebration in the Student Union.<\/p>\n<p>The event is designed to showcase the work Wright State University students are doing both on the undergraduate and graduate levels, whether it be in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) disciplines or in the liberal arts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the stigma is that there\u2019s only research being done in the sciences, but that\u2019s not true. It\u2019s done in liberal arts too,\u201d said Dominique Belanger, director of undergraduate research and STEM activities. \u201cIt\u2019s done in education, it\u2019s done in theater and music. It\u2019s everywhere. It just takes on a different form.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Belanger, interest from students in the event continues to increase with participation up in comparison to last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think word is getting out and students are realizing this is something they ought to be doing,\u201d said Belanger.<\/p>\n<p>The forms of research presented at the event ran the gamut and were shepherded by students from diverse backgrounds as well.<\/p>\n<p>Poster presenters Leigh Deuter and Mike Taylor, two non-traditional students working on bachelor\u2019s degrees at the Lake Campus, presented their earth and environmental sciences research from work they\u2019ve been doing while collecting and analyzing prehistoric shark fossils.<\/p>\n<p>The Chondrichthyan species lived over 340 million years ago in the Mississippi system of northern Alabama. Much of the best research was done by a Southern scientist whose work was largely destroyed by Union troops during the Civil War. Deuter and Taylor have been unearthing new specimens to rebuild the work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been working in the muddy backwaters type of area from that time,\u201d said Taylor. \u201cWe\u2019re just stirring it up a little bit to see what we can find.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As they\u2019ve excavated, split and cleaned fossil-laden rock from the region, Deuter says they\u2019ve found many teeth specimens of the species.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith a trained eye you start to be able to determine what\u2019s a pebble and what\u2019s a tooth,\u201d said Deuter.<\/p>\n<p>Deuter and Taylor see the celebration event as a prime time to dig up some new ideas for their work too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs fellow students, we can co-mingle and network and look at each other\u2019s posters,\u201d said Deuter. \u201cI saw there\u2019s a filtration poster I want to talk to the student about to see if it would have applications in our laboratory.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12305\" style=\"width: 270px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2012\/04\/13\/undergraduate-graduate-research-shines-during-annual-celebration\/c-reserach-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12305\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12305\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12305\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2012\/04\/c-reserach-2-260x114.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Wright State student Spencer Brannon.\" width=\"260\" height=\"114\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12305\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wright State student Spencer Brannon was one of more than 60 students who chose to give an oral presentation instead of a poster presentation.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Students like Rebekkah Mulholland chose to conduct oral presentations instead of posters like Deuter and Taylor. She and six other students recently returned from the The Faith &amp; Politics Institute\u2019s 12th Congressional Civil Rights Pilgrimage.<\/p>\n<p>Seven undergraduate and graduate students visited historic civil rights sites in Alabama. They also visited with present-day congressmen and civil rights leaders to learn more about contemporary civil rights issues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt wasn\u2019t just visiting these sites to look at the historical approach but how they\u2019re very relevant today with contemporary issues such as voter ID, registration rights and immigrants laws in Alabama,\u201d said Mulholland.<\/p>\n<p>One of the unique attendees of this year\u2019s event was a graduate from last year, Jeff Fogle.<\/p>\n<p>A research and development chemist for Heraeus Precious Metals North America DayChem (Heraeus), Fogle presented some of his chemistry research in polymers last year and picked up a job interview in the process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s a good way to get your research out there to other students, but also to other companies who might find it interesting and who might offer you a job,\u201d said Fogle.<\/p>\n<p>Just one year later, Fogle was part of a gaggle of sponsor companies, including Peerless\u00a0 and Sterling Production Control Units (PCU), that supported the event financially and consider it an opportunity to meet talented students they may want to offer jobs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rich and robust, Wright State University\u2019s student research efforts were on display for the third annual Celebration in the Student Union. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2012\/04\/13\/undergraduate-graduate-research-shines-during-annual-celebration\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":12304,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[725,727,715,18,719,720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home-news-sidebar","category-homepage-photos-and-video","category-news","category-research","category-special-categories","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12299"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112023,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12299\/revisions\/112023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}