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2010 SEARCH Undergraduate Research Symposium

10:00 to 3:00, Friday, April 16, 2010
Pierson Auditorium at the University Center

Awards Ceremony
4:00 p.m., 117 UC

Guest Speaker:
TBA

The 2010 SEARCH Symposium will feature presentations by students in five divisions:
Architecture, Urban Planning, and Design
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Biological and Health Sciences
Humanities and Performing Arts
Physical Sciences, Engineering, and Mathematics

Oral presentations will be held in 117 UC starting at 11:00 a.m.

Posters, displays, and models will be on display in Person Auditorium between 10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m.

Judging of presentations will take place between 11:00 and 1:00.
Winners in each division will receive a cash award and certificate of achievement.

2008 Symposium Guest Speaker:
Prof. Laura Lacey Haun, R.N., Ph.D.
Dean of the UMKC School of Nursing

At the annual SEARCH Symposium, students from all disciplines present their work and receive professional feedback. Projects are presented through performance, visual arts, 3-dimensional models, posters and oral presentation. The symposium provides undergraduate researchers valuable presentation experience while meeting other students and faculty involved in multiple areas of research.

The 2008 SEARCH Symposium was held on Friday, April 11, in Pierson Auditorium. There were a total of 51 presentations comprised of seven oral, 18 visual displays, and 28 posters. First and second place winners received a $100 or $50 award, respectively.

First Place

P. Spencer Yaw	Pavilion for a Geoscientist
James Townsend	Gender, Gender Self Concept and Need for Affiliation
Maria Iliakova	The Evolution of Bipedalism and the Cerebellum: An Interspecies Comparison of the Corpus Collosum and Spinal Cord Angle
Ryan Sullivan	Two Case Studies of Leading Musicians' Patronage in the Franco-Flemish Renaissance
Whitney Berard	Graphs Based on Vector Spaces over Finite Fields

Second Place

John Michael	Garden Project
Taryn Hodison	A Stroll Down Memory Lane: Does Rumination Bias Your Memory
Tiffanie Fowlkes	Tough Actin Dynactin: Effect of G59S Mutation on Microtubule-binding of Dynein-Dynactin Complex
Group Project	Main Street Vision 2030
Amy Ameis	Paleotempestology of the lacustrine and backbeach environments of San Salvador

If you are an undergraduate student at UMKC and are interested in presenting your work at the SEARCH Symposium, registration materials and tips on oral PowerPoint and poster presentations are available online, or by stopping by the SEARCH office in 408G Royall Hall.