The Eleventh Annual Student Research Colloquium The University of Tulsa Graduate School

Dear TU community,

Please take pride in our students' performance last week in our Eleventh Annual Student Research Colloquium and congratulate our winners and participants as presenters, session chairs, and judges.  TU undergraduate, graduate, and law students as well as high school students from the Green Country area participated during the four days in a total of 61 oral presentations, 7 community service presentations, 9 TURC posters, and 50 high school poster presentations from 10 area high schools; this was concluded on the fifth day with an awards banquet on Friday evening. 

Our students are to be commended for more than their personal performance; this is a student-led function with co-chairs Rachel Wiedeman and Fernando Bermudez determining the overall organization of the Colloquium, and graduate and undergraduate students serving as session chairs and judges.  I also greatly appreciate the faculty and staff that judged and therefore helped make this event a success.  A total of 47 judges and 9 session chairs covered all the oral and poster presentation sessions. 

There are 14 TU student winners listed below.  The awards consist of a 1^st, two 2^nd, and five 3^rd and six Honorable Mentions; the competition was quite keen this year and we had ties for second and third place, and more honorable mentions than in the past.

If you were unable to attend the Colloquium last week, you may still view this year’s submissions by TU undergraduate, graduate and law students.  Many of the TU students agreed to post their PowerPoint presentations online.  These will be available soon at the Graduate Student Organization website at http://orgs.utulsa.edu/gsa/, along with a complete electronic version of the Colloquium program and submitted abstracts.

All of our students did a wonderful job this year and we hope to see continued interest and participation in the Research Colloquium for the upcoming year.  Are there any research topics that you would like to see discussed during next year’s meeting?  Are you interested in organizing a symposium?  This is an excellent opportunity for our TU faculty and students to showcase their research and scholarship from across the whole university

Next year marks the return of the regional meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) to The University of Tulsa campus and its inclusion with our regular Research Colloquium programming.  The Southwestern and Rocky Mountain (SWARM) division of the AAAS extends from Canada into Mexico.  Research by faculty, undergraduate and graduate students, professionals, K-12 teachers, and high school students will be presented.

Please congratulate all student participants, judges, session chairs, and co-chairs as well as the faculty and staff judges for a job well done. Please keep this in mind when considering participating in next year’s colloquium.

Sincerely,
Janet A. Haggerty
Associate Vice President for Research and Dean of the Graduate School

11^th ANNUAL STUDENT RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM WINNERS

CONFERENCE AT A GLANCE

POWER POINT PRESENTATIONS (Coming Soon)

ABSTRACTS

HIGH SCHOOL RESEARCH POSTER ENTRIES

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