The University of New Mexico
NEWS RELEASE
Contact : Karen Wentworth, (505) 277-5627
November 11, 2005
Undergraduates Display Record Number of Research Projects
More than 480 undergraduate students will display research projects and creative works at the University of New Mexico Undergraduate Research & Creativity Symposium on Monday, November 21, at the Student Union Building on the UNM main campus. University College is organizing the symposium, and Dean Peter White is inviting the Albuquerque community to see the variety and depth of research now being done by students at UNM.
Poster and oral presentations begin at 9 a.m. For media and off-campus visitors, one focal point of the day will be a 9:30 presentation of a voice-activated wheelchair by senior engineering students in the Amigo Room and a slam poetry group that will perform in the plaza atrium of the SUB from 10:30 a.m. through noon.
There will also be a special noontime presentation in Ballroom A featuring Dr. Rex Jung from the MIND Institute at UNM. The title of his talk is “Creativity and the Brain: When Smarts Are Not Enough.” At 12:30 p.m. there will be a round table discussion on the “Role of Research in Secondary Education” in the Luminaria Room, led by Dean White and APS and Rio Rancho education leaders.
The second session of oral presentations begins at 1 p.m. and will continue throughout the afternoon. At 3 p.m. community members may join a walking tour of the UNM campus that illustrates the geological history of New Mexico; this tour starts in the Plaza Atrium of the SUB. The Southwest Film Center on the plaza level of the SUB will feature student films from 5 through 8 p.m. For questions about the time or local of events please contact Erin Radcliffe at 277-8282.
The University of New Mexico is the state's largest university, serving more than 32,000 students. UNM is home to the state's only schools of law, medicine, pharmacy and architecture and operates New Mexico's only academic health center. UNM is noted for comprehensive undergraduate programs and research that benefits the state and the nation.
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