By Tom Ganser
CORRESPONDENT
The 23rd annual University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Undergraduate Research Day on March 22 displayed the results of the work of 162 students, working alone or in teams under the guidance and mentoring of 76 staff and faculty members and presented in 117 projects as oral presentations, dramatic monologues, or research posters.
Chancellor Beverly Kopper described the event as “a testament to all your hard work and wonderful creativity.”
“I’m just amazed at the creativity, the intellectual prowess, the rigor, and the results that you all are presenting here today,” Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Susan Elrod said in her greeting.
Both Elrod and Kopper emphasized the importance of undergraduate research as a “high impact practice” that leads to student success in terms of graduation as well as post-graduation futures.
The projects range from the highly technical, like the “Expression and Purification of N-terminal Chimeras of CCL19 and CCL21 for Analysis of CCR2 Biased Sampling” to projects with titles more easily understood (e.g., “Oral History of Wisconsin Farms”.
Shaunie Rasmussen graduated from Whitewater High School in 2013 and is a senior at UW-Whitewater majoring in geography with a minor in environment studies.
Her project is entitled “Predicting Leaf-Area Index in Alfalfa, Oats, Spring Wheats Crops Using Field Spectroscopy.”
For more on Rasmussen’s project and the Undergraduate Research Day, check out the March 29 edition of the Whitewater Register.
