For the second day of the event, which is timed to coincide with the spring admissions open house, trustees and legislators will be invited in addition to prospective students and their parents. Faustman says research is an important part of a college education, even for students who don't intend to pursue an academic career. It's really what you do in life in any career. You're never asked to solve a problem for which the solution is already known. Committee members emphasize that the opportunity to take part in the forum is open to all undergraduates who are engaged in research in any discipline, not only to honors students.
Communication is the final step in doing any type of research work.
Zirakzadeh says he hopes both the students and the faculty involved will meet across disciplines. I see this as an opportunity to gain a recognition of how much is going on campus-wide, not only in my own field of political science but in puppetry, molecular and cell biology, English, and philosophy. The committee is taking a broad view of what constitutes research. In some fields, such as chemistry or biology, that may be linked to working with a professor in a lab and being able to discuss the findings. In other fields it could be working on the setting for a theater production or just normal class work where a student goes a step beyond in the analysis of a poem or the interpretation of a dialogue of Plato.