Student Research Colloquium

THE FIFTEENTH ANNUAL STUDENT RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM

HELD JOINTLY WITH THE

86TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE – SOUTHWESTERN & ROCKY MOUNTAIN REGION

MARCH 31 – APRIL 4, 2012
ALLEN CHAPMAN ACTIVITY CENTER

 

Dear TU community,

Please congratulate our students on their performance in the recent joint meeting of the 15th Annual TU Student Research Colloquium and 86th Annual AAAS-SWARM Meeting (American Association for the Advancement of Science – Southwestern & Rocky Mountain Region). Our winners and participants as presenters, session chairs, and judges provided an outstanding example of our TU community.

There were a total of 316 oral and poster presentations made during the meeting as well as several special topic lectures. We had 145 TU students deliver oral presentations and 23 TU students participate in the poster session. The remaining presentations were given by visiting students and researchers from the region.

At the Awards Banquet, the winners of the AAAS-SWARM awards, as well as our Research Colloquium awards, were announced. The competition was keen and all students did a wonderful job. Nine TU students received AAAS-SWARM awards, and 13 received Research Colloquium awards. One person received awards from both groups. Award winners for both categories are listed below with the title of their abstracts.

Students and faculty that came from other universities were impressed with the quality of our students' presentations and the organization of the meeting. Our students are to be commended for more than their personal performance; this is a student-led function with committee members Aaron Ball, Colleen Bell, Sarah Chandlee, Tabatha Hibbs, Maddi Laizure, Sam Masters, Fardis Najafifard, and Courtney Nelson 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 82 judges and 36 session chairs covered all the oral and poster presentation sessions, as well as the High School Poster Session.

In addition to the general contributed paper sessions, we also had a number of people step forward to organize special topic symposium. We had 25 special topic symposia included in this year’s AAAS-SWARM meeting, 13 of which were organized by TU faculty, staff, and students. For a full list of the included presentations and the titles of this year’s special topic symposia, please see the meeting program included below.

Please congratulate all student participants, judges, session chairs, and co-chairs as well as the faculty and staff judges for a job well done. We look forward to a successful research colloquium next year.

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

15th ANNUAL STUDENT RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM/AAAS-SWARM WINNERS

CONFERENCE PROGRAM