The eleventh annual Undergraduate Research Fair will take place on Wednesday, April 4, 2001. The Undergraduate Research Fair, established in 1991 following a donation to the University Honors College from the Teachers for an Independent Faculty, is run as a poster session. This is a kind of open house where participants display posters describing their research.
Presenters use any format and any additional materials necessary to convey their ideas.
No formal talk to a large group is involved. Instead, the audience walks from table to table reading posters and discussing points of curiosity with the presenters. Students who participate have found that they clarify their own thinking in preparing a visual presentation of their work for an audience of non-specialists. In addition, the discussion that can develop with the audience, as well as with other participants, can be challenging and stimulating. Students in all undergraduate divisions and majors are encouraged to submit abstracts of their research by March 12, 2001.