Student Research Colloquium

The Twelfth Annual Student Research Colloquium

 
Held Jointly with the 84th Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science – Southwestern & Rocky Mountain Region

March 28 – March 31, 2009
Allen Chapman Activity Center

 

12th ANNUAL STUDENT RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM/AAAS-SWARM WINNERS

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

 

Dear TU community,

Our university community should be proud of our students' performance in the recent joint meeting of the 12th Annual TU Student Research Colloquium and 84th Annual AAAS-SWARM Meeting (American Association for the Advancement of Science – Southwestern & Rocky Mountain Region). Congratulations to our winners and participants as presenters, session chairs, and judges.

There was a total of 216 oral and poster presentations made during the meeting as well as several workshops and special lectures. We had 100 TU students deliver oral presentations and 14 TU students participate in the poster session. The remaining presentations were given by visiting researchers from across 7 states (Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Missouri, New Mexico). There were also 31 local high school students that participated in our annual High School Research Poster Contest from 12 different schools for the Green Country area.

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. Eight students received AAAS-SWARM awards, and 11 students received Research Colloquium awards. Three people 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 co-chairs Rachel Wiedeman, Christina Bishop, Carla Landrum & Greg Medders 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 64 judges and 11 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 12 special topic symposia included in this year’s AAAS-SWARM meeting, 8 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. 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