Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Forum – 2009

List of Committee Members

Robert Bubp, Fine Arts, 2011

Jeremy Patterson, Education, 2010   

Paul Rillema, LAS Math/Natural Sciences, 2009, Chair

Lawrence Whitman, Engineering 2010, Chair Elect

Maria Torres Pillot, Health Professions, 2011

Atul Rai, Business, 2011

Kyoung Lee, LAS, 2011

Ginger Williams, Libraries, 2009

Meeting Schedule

We met November 20, 2008 and will meet again after the URCAF forum, May 1, 2009.  We set up a Web Site and moved to on-line registration and submission of abstracts.  The 2009 Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Forum contains 18 oral presentations and 14 poster presentations.  Contributions are from the College of Business, the Elliott School of Communications, the College of Engineering, the College of Fine Arts and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Funding was provided by the College of Education, the University Library, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Office of Research Administration.

Pending Issues

 The goal in 2009 was to obtain breadth and increase the number of contributions from our worthy undergraduate students.  The program moved a giant step forward with an increase of contributions from 19 to 32 from 2008 to 2009.   Nevertheless, there is still room to make this a robust program.  Perhaps the Senate could conceive of a plan to give faculty mentors some kind of credit for sponsoring student participation in URCAF.