2016 Undergraduate Research Symposium – April 14th

2016 Undergrad SymposiumYou are invited to attend the 2016 Undergraduate Symposium on Thursday, April 14 at Union South. Show your support for undergraduates as they showcase their creativity, achievement, research, service-learning, and community-based research. More than 540 students will participate including the following eight geography and cartography/GIS majors.

Session One: 12:30 – 1:45 p.m. (Varsity Hall)

Robert Darlington
The Design Challenge: Interdisciplinary Engagement to Improve Scientific Visualization (poster)
Mentor: Tanya Buckingham

Session Three: 3:30 – 4:45 p.m (Traditions Room)

Kate Hayes
Feel the Burn: a 12,000 year record of the fire regime of Bonnett Lake, Ohio (presentation)
Mentor: Jack Williams

Camille Plaisance, Emma Gunderson, Emily Rose 
Women’s Spatial Negotiations: Alcohol, Sexual Violence, and Geography on the UW Campus (presentation)
Mentor: William Gartner

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Freshman, Robert Darlington, “This is exactly where I wanted to be when I started college… Doing stuff like this! This a good day.”

Sela Gordon
Architecture, Zoning, and the Segregation of Women’s Public and Private Spheres in Madison, WI (presentation)
Mentor: William Gartner

Chris Morgan
Do Seed Traits Mediate Plant Community Changes in Wisconsin’s Unburned Prairies? (presentation)
Mentor: Jesse Miller

Session Three: 12:30 – 1:45 p.m. (Varsity Hall)

Sanober Mirza
Particle Size Analysis: a Comparison of Methods Sanober Mirza (poster)
Mentor: Erika Marin-Spiotta

Click here for the entire program.

 

Author: Geography Staff