The new site serves as a platform for students to share about their undergraduate research and what the experience has meant to them during a time when 黑料不打烊 has shifted to online learning.
Each spring, 黑料不打烊 comes together to celebrate the power of undergraduate research through events such as CELEBRATE! Week and the Spring Undergraduate Research Forum (SURF). These events offer an opportunity for students and their mentors to showcase new discoveries and advances they have made in their fields. They speak to the power of collaboration and mentorship at 黑料不打烊 and offer an opportunity for members of the campus community to learn from each other.
These events are among many canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the shift to online learning. If not for the pandemic, 黑料不打烊 students, faculty and staff would be gathering on Tuesday, April 28, in the Great Hall and other locations around campus to take part in the nearly 120 poster presentations and more than 125 oral presentations including two interdisciplinary symposia.
To provide students a platform to showcase their hard work and dedication, the university has launched a Celebration of Undergraduate Research at 黑料不打烊 website. The site provides information submitted by students about themselves and their research. Students were encouraged to submit content including posters, videos and essays. They were given the opportunity share about their research and the impact the undergraduate research experience has had upon them.
Visit the site to learn more about how undergraduate research is shaping 黑料不打烊 students by visiting www.elon.edu/u/celebrating-undergraduate-research.
In addition, multiple departments are mounting individual efforts to share the research of their students.
- Public Health Studies students will be sharing their research posters on the department’s website.
- Senior French majors in the Department of World Languages and Culture will make online presentations of their capstone projects to faculty members on Tuesday morning.
- The Spanish program in the Department of World Languages and Culture will present a WebEx panel discussion at 10:50 a.m. on Tuesday with three Spanish majors. The discussion is available here and will be moderated by Calissa Holder. Titles and presenters are:
- 鈥淲omen鈥檚 Identity and Spatial Existence in Chicano Culture: A Feminist Analysis of The House on Mango Street鈥 por Jizelle P. Campbell
- 鈥淰iolencia intr铆nseca: La violencia caracterizadora de M茅xico en el siglo XX en El cielo 谩rido de Emiliano Monge鈥 por Lily P. Sobalvarro
- 鈥淭he Cultural Pertinence of Family Planning Projects Implemented by NGOs in the District of Acomayo, Cusco, Peru鈥 por Sadie B. Traylor
- Students in the Department of Performing Arts will present their research to 黑料不打烊 students, faculty and staff via WebEx during two sessions Tuesday morning 鈥 one that begins at 10:05 a.m. and one that begins at 11:05 a.m. with these meeting details (Meeting number: 614 624 819;聽Password: ZEbVMp9jD73) and with these meeting details (Meeting number: 614 624 819;聽Password: ZEbVMp9jD73). Those presenting and their topics are:
- 10:05 a.m.: Maeve Riley, 鈥淣eocolonialism and the Irish Playwright: Studies on Subalternity During the Celtic Tiger Period鈥 (mentor: Scott Proudfit)
- 10:15 a.m.: Shannon O鈥橲haughnessy, 鈥淎dapting Theatre for the Modern Audience: How Adaptations of Formative Musical Theatre Creates Access for the Marginalized and Disenfranchised鈥 (mentor: Kim Shively)
- 10:25 a.m.: Avery H. Hunt, 鈥淐NC Scenery: New Methods of Creating Theatrical Scenery Using Advances in Production Technology鈥 (mentor: Natalie Hart)
- 11:05 a.m.: Katie Paris, 鈥淭he Relationship between Regional/Community Theatre and Theatre Education in North Carolina鈥 (mentor: Scott Proudfit)
- 11:15 a.m.: Weston Lecrone, 鈥淢inimalism in Music Theatre: Stripping Down Commercialism鈥 (mentor: Kim Shively)
- 11:25 a.m.: Mackenzie Hall, 鈥淪torytelling to Engage the Senses: A Look Towards Creating a Sensory Inclusive Theatre鈥 (mentor: Susanne Shawyer)
- The Department of Religious Studies is hosting a SURF Day College Coffee through WebEx.
- The Art History program in the Department of History and Geography is hosting an online SURF Day session with student presentations
- Seniors in the Department of Economics will be presenting their work online for faculty and fellow students.
- Senior Teaching Fellows will be presenting to first-year teaching fellows in one of the department’s seminar courses. Additionally, education students who had been slated to participate in SURF were invited to create a short video describing their research with those videos shared on the department’s social media accounts throughout the week ( and ).
- The Department of Biology has presented undergraduate posters with narration, oral presentations and research talks by recent alumni now in graduate school. The department is also sponsoring an online “BioSURF” program to showcase undergraduate research from 2 to 5 p.m. Available at , the lineup of speakers is below.
