Eight students in Shoreline’s Honors College presented their multi-quarter research projects at the 22nd Annual University of Washington Undergraduate Research Symposium at Mary Gates Hall on May 17, 2019. The symposium is a showcase for student academic work, and participation is application based and competitive.
Shoreline students joined more than 1,200 presenters in the day-long symposium at the UW, which aims to facilitate research experiences for undergraduates that motivate understanding of concepts through their application to real-world problems and helps students to develop a deeper understanding of more complex materials.
Participants create a poster presentation of their research findings and must be prepared to discuss their work with symposium attendees. Research topics cover a range of disciplines and are of the student’s choosing.
“It’s an invaluable and engaging learning experience for the students,” said Terry Taylor, a research track faculty member in the Honors College at Shoreline. “Not only do they learn to conduct university-level research, but they gain the confidence of sticking with a project of this magnitude for multiple quarters and being able to defend their findings in a public forum.”
Shoreline participant Shradda Malla agreed. “The (symposium) environment was filled with curiosity and wonder and I felt fortunate to be a part of it. Our Shoreline Honors College posters were comparable in quality to those of the four-year students, with little to no difference. In fact, our posters were more carefully thought out, organized, and professional because of the time we spent perfecting them as a class. I would recommend this experience for everyone.”
Another Shoreline presenter, Willow Strey, said, “Witnessing the vast amounts of creativity from a wide variety of disciplines strengthened my understanding of how research is considered on a higher level.”
All nine of Shoreline’s Honors College research track students will be presenting their work on Shoreline’s campus on June 19 from 1:30 – 3:20 p.m. in PUB 9208. This event is open to all members of the campus as well as the larger Shoreline community.
Student presenters and their research topics include:
Olivia Bakken: A Loveless Generation? (Professor Brooke Zimmers, Mentor)
Dang Dang: Energy Conservation: The Enigma of a More Complete Explanation of the Universe (Professor James Sloan, Mentor)
Yi-Tan Hsu: Happiness, Money, and Economic Inequality (Professor Tim Payne, Mentor)
Abdul Itani: The Fundamentals of Basic Income: A Literature Review (Professor Terry Taylor, Mentor)
Shraddha (Shay) Malla: M-health: A Comparison between South-East Asia and the United States of America (Professor Kira Wennstrom, Mentor)
Daniel Loewito: Space: The Final Countdown (Professor Charles Dodd, Mentor)
Peter Setiawan: Human Curiosity’s Origin and Curiosity’s Definition (Professor Diana Knauf, Mentor)
Willow Strey: Comparative Biological Studies: The Use of Vortices in Locomotion (Professor James Sloan, Mentor)
Jesse Zesbaugh: The Psychology of Cyberbullying (Professor Diana Knauf, Mentor)
Applications for the Honors College at Shoreline are open now for Fall 2019. Learn more about the Honors College and how to apply.