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by PATRICK BABCOCK
Lifestyles Reporter
The 12th Annual Celebration of Student Research and Creative Endeavors will be held in Plemmons Student Union today from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
“This is an opportunity where students can go out and share their scientific findings, their new piece of music, their new video that they’ve created, to share it with the campus community at large,” Director of the Office of Student Research Alan C. Utter said.
“It is one day full of research presentations and creative endeavors from every different discipline on campus,” Utter said.
Utter has worked
with the event in some capacity for its entire 12-year existence, and
is now the head coordinator of the celebration.
There
will be 158 projects presented throughout the day and 109 of them are
undergraduate student projects, which is a record number of student
representatives.
These
presentations will represent a total of 26 different departments at
Appalachian State University, approximating about 80 percent of the
campus.
“It will
be a day of poster presentations, slide presentations, there will be
creative performances, creative poetic readings, there’ll be robotic
demonstrations, there will be video, there’ll be short film,” Utter
said. “Every type of original research and creative endeavor that you
can essentially think of will be presented throughout the day.”
He said an exciting detail of the event is every year the presentations are often new discoveries within their field.
“The
whole idea of the meeting is really that students are discovering how
to discover new knowledge,” Utter said. “And that’s the beauty of this
meeting.”
The Office of Student Research encourages student creativity by providing money and travel grants to conduct research.
“I think
we’re very fortunate at Appalachian to have [an] administration that
supports student-based research endeavors,” Utter said. “There are a
lot of institutions within the [University of North Carolina] system
where students aren’t given the resources to do that.”
Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Stan R. Aeschleman will address those at the event at 1:15 p.m.
Utter
said there has been some discussion about postponing classes for the
day of the meeting so students can hear presentations done by their
peers.
There has also been discussion about making the event a competition, but that has not yet been planned.
People from outside the university are invited to attend the event and see the independent work of Appalachian students.
“I
encourage students, if they have an hour, to pop by,” Utter said.
“They’ll probably find something in there that interests them.”
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