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Students present best work
By Joe Palmersheim
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Thursday, April 17, 2003
Media Credit: Ryan Henry
Senior Tim Fitze explains his findings on global warming trends to third-year student Julia Scott at the 2003 Student Research ColloquiumTuesday afternoon in the Atwood Ballroom.
Student research was given a spotlight Tuesday with the annual Student Research Colloquium. Hailing from many different majors and disciplines, students and faculty presented their findings in the Atwood Memorial Center.
Student participation in this year's Student Research Colloquium has also risen.
"We had at least 30 more students presenting this year than last year, so we have about 230 students presenting. We have about 90 faculty members that are sponsoring their research, and about 155 different presentations," said Director of Grants Development and Administration Susan Jensen-Cekalla. Funding for the event comes from a variety of sources, both from the school and from outside donors.
There were three sessions which ran from noon until 6:30 p.m. Each session had a different theme. The afternoon session even had presentations in German and Spanish. "Each of these sessions (had) a moderator, and they are all volunteers from different parts of the university," Jensen-Cekalla said. The event was a large undertaking, with over a year of planning beforehand. It spanned the entire second floor of Atwood.
In the Ballroom, poster presentations were hung on portable whiteboards. There were over 100 posterboard entries this year. The presentations are done in color with graphs and charts spread out over the three foot by five foot surface of the board. In addition to the board itself, the person (or people) who worked on it were on hand to answer questions from passers-by.
Marie Ferrell, an SCSU senior, stood in front of her board, which was a project about the small pox vaccine.
"It's for my licensure, and it's part of our independent research credit. It's (the event) really impressive about some of the studies some people are doing. A lot of work has been put into all of the projects done here," Ferrell said.
Ferrell's subject matter proved timely. "Quite a few people have stopped by. Smallpox has been in the news lately, so a lot of people are interested in the vaccine itself and how it reacts to society," she said.
Nicole Hansen, another SCSU senior, presented a board regarding "Social Response to Negative Sexual Experiences." "(The colloquium) is pretty overwhelming. I guess I didn't expect there to be so many people coming."
"The panel (is composed of) people who graduated from St. Cloud State University, who are active in the field using research in a variety of different disciplines," said SCSU Psychology Professor Leeann Jorgensen. The panel members were Alvin B. Irby ('73), Beth Riesgraf M.D. ('74), Jennifer Strand ('94) and Michael Wacker ('96).
"People come and walk through, and it's almost like a festival. People can look at all of these different presentations and see what the different topics are, and what they have put up there about their projects," Cekalla said.
"It's like the whole campus community comes together to put this event together for students. The idea of the research colloquium is to give recognition that students do research."
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