Annual Student
Research Forum Boasts Exceptional Student Projects
The Ohio
State University at Newark will host the fourth annual Undergraduate Research Forum on
Thursday, March 6 from 12:30
pm – 5 pm in the John Gilbert Reese Center. The program will
include displays, oral presentations and a presentation about the
Denman Award. Prizes will be awarded to the winning presenters. The event is
free and open to the public.
The event is coordinated year by J. Andrew Roberts, Ph.D., assistant professor of evolution, ecology and organismal biology and Paul D. Sanders, Ph.D., associate dean and professor of music education.
“This is the highest participation to date, with eighteen projects to be presented,” said Roberts. He said that anthropology, biology, education, history and psychology will be represented this year.
Research titles are:
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“The relationship between studying music and students' cognitive retention rates in college”
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“Dangerous women”
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“Cognitive risk tolerance as an attribute of general creativity in college students”
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“The 77th Infantry Division in WWII”
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“Changes in creativity and risk-taking over time viewed by environment and gender”
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“What did they use that for? The problem of assigning feature function in archaeology”
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“Investigations in seasonality and functionality at two Fort Ancient sites”
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“Style preference and economic aspiration”
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“Reexamining spatial distributions of chipped stone tools in a Fort Ancient village”
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“Music and word recall: The strength of familiar melodies as mnemonic devices”
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“Waste matters: Chipped stone tool manufacture at a small Fort Ancient site in southwest Ohio”
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“Improving measures of everyday heroism”
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“Similarities and differences in Nobel Prize Laureates in science”
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“Influence of positive reinforcement on math accuracy and speed”
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“The decline of native bees in the Columbus metropolitan area due to factors including urbanization”
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“Childhood and adult interpersonal relationships”
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“Measuring choice companionship in sub adult Zalophus californianus: A case study between Harley and Satara”
Guest speaker Helene Cweren, program director of The Ohio State University Undergraduate Research Office (URO), will present "Denman Demystified" from 3:30-4:30. She will be joined by a panel of current and former Ohio State Newark students who have presented at the Denman Undergraduate Research Forum in Columbus. Together, they will lead a discussion about undergraduate research at Ohio State University, as well as presenting at the Denman, slated for May 14, 2008.
“The Undergraduate Student Research enables students to dig deeply into topics that interest them, going beyond the limits of the traditional classroom,” said Sanders. “In addition to the poster presentation category, new this year is the oral presentation option which provides a more appropriate venue sharing historical studies, term papers, and other studies.”
For the first time, faculty judges will be joined by community leaders who will serve as guest judges: Pat Gibson, Manager, Business Excellence, The Boeing Company (Heath) and Carla Miller, R&D Leader, Residential Insulation, Owens Corning Science & Technology Center (Granville).
For more information and to obtain a schedule of the day’s events, contact Dr. J. Andrew Roberts by phone at 740.366.9178 or by email at roberts.762@osu.edu.