FEATURED THIS MONTH
SUMMER OF
RESEARCH
RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES AND EVENTS
|
|
May kicks off our summer of research! In Tallahassee and around the world, FSU students are engaging in extensive research projects with the support of IDEA Grants, Global Scholars, REUs, DIS, and more!
|
|
Deadline to apply to UROP
For high school and first year students:
Wednesday, May 1, 2019
For transfer students: Monday, July 1, 2019
The Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) is the perfect opportunity for incoming, first year, and transfer students from all majors to start their research journeys as research assistants with faculty, post-doc, graduate student, or community partner research mentors.
Apply to UROP below!
|
|
Deadline to apply to present
|
Wednesday, June 19th, 2019
|
|
|
Students involved in undergraduate research and the Garnet and Gold Scholar Society or Honors in the Major can culminate their research engagement area by presenting an oral presentation at Summer Research Day. This year, it will be held in the Honors, Scholars, and Fellows House, 3rd floor, room 3008 on July 10th
(exact times TBD)
.
|
|
There is a new Institutional Review Board portal for FSU researchers seeking IRB approval.
The IRB is a committee that reviews all proposed human subjects research to ensure that the safety and welfare of subjects are protected. All human subjects research requires review and approval by the IRB prior to subject recruitment and data collection, and prior to the use of existing data or private information.
|
|
2019 Global Scholars Send-off
|
|
Associate Director Dr. Kim Reid inducted new Global Scholars with the t-shirt ceremony.
|
|
|
The new group of Global Scholars showed off their t-shirts, spirit, and energy in preparation for their summer service-learning experiences!
|
|
|
|
National Conference for Undergraduate Research
|
The National Conference for Undergraduate Research is a chance for students to present their research projects to faculty and peers from across the nation. Kennesaw State University in Georgia hosted this year's NCUR. Great job to all!
Sarah Warren, Alexander Adams, Emma Davis, Nia Harmon, and Serena Bradshaw enjoy an Atlanta Braves game as a chance to relax from their hard work at
NCUR
.
|
|
End of Year Celebration for the Florida Georgia Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation in STEM
|
FGLSAMP
had their end of the year celebration to mark their accomplishments and milestones. Some students will continue their research over the summer with REUs and IDEA Grants!
|
|
|
UROP End of Year Celebration
|
|
The CRE recognized UROP Leaders at the end of the year celebration, where they were given the ever-coveted UROP juice glasses! Congratulations to the UROP Leaders who are graduating, and we look forward to working with the UROP Leaders who are returning next year!
|
|
|
|
FSU Libraries Excellence in Research Award Ceremony
|
The
UROP Excellence in Research
initiative is a partnership between Florida State University Libraries and the Center for Undergraduate Research and Academic Engagement (CRE). The partnership allows students the opportunity to apply library resources and services to their interdisciplinary research projects.
The first annual awards honored students who demonstrated exceptional research skills and effectively utilized library resources. Congratulations to first-place winner Hayleigh Tilton, second-place winner Salma Garcia Moreno, and third-place winner Ana Melissa Caballero!
|
|
|
|
UROP RESEARCH MENTOR AWARDS
|
|
|
UROP Faculty Research Mentor Award
Paul
Conway
|
Dr. Paul Conway is an assistant professor in the
Department of Psychology
. He is interested in the psychology of morality and justice, how people think about good and bad, right and wrong, and whether to help or harm others. Congratulations, Dr. Conway!
For her nomination of Dr. Conway, UROP student Kailyn O'Connor wrote,
"I had the wonderful opportunity of running my own experiment and getting first hand experience in the field. He had faith in me to basically run a whole study on my own with his guidance when I had never done anything in research before. Dr. Conway was patient with my [initial] confusion, answered all of my questions and helped me every step of the way."
|
|
|
|
|
UROP Post-doc Research Mentor Award
Peter Cheetham
|
Dr. Peter Cheetham was a post-doc and is currently a faculty member working at the
Center for Advanced Power Systems
at FSU. He has hosted several UROP student in his lab over the years including Alexia Mullings, who nominated him for this award! Congratulations, Dr. Cheetham!
Alexia wrote of her time working with Dr. Cheetha
m, "
Dr. Peter Cheetham has demonstrated outstanding guidance and mentoring during my UROP research project by giving me the opportunity to observe projects and experiments that take place at the Center for Advanced Power Systems, even when they do not involve my own research, in order to give me the opportunity to gain more exposure to real life projects and environments that engineers work in."
|
|
UROP Graduate Student Research Mentor Award
Kate Hill
|
Kate Hill is a PhD student in biological sciences and hosts several UROP students in her lab. Her UROP assistant Elizabeth Campos nominated her for this award. Congratulations, Kate Hill!
Elizabeth wrote of her ment
or, "
Kate Hill has demonstrated outstanding guidance and mentorship through the time of our UROP study. Kate exemplifies the meaning of constant support and dedication to her work and has shown me a new light to the research field. She goes out of her way to help my cohort and me with our projects and has shown us the diverse aspects that build a researcher."
|
|
|
|
|
BECOME A UROP RESEARCH MENTOR
|
|
|
Research Mentor Dr. Marisa Agama and her UROP student Danielle Portal after presenting at the Florida College Learning Center Conference
|
|
Get involved with UROP by involving students in your research project
|
We are recruiting UROP project proposals for the 2019-2020 academic year from faculty, post-doc, graduate, and community research projects to broaden the options for our
Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program
students.
Learn more about how to become a
UROP Research Mentor
and help FSU students get experience in their field!
Application deadline: August 12, 2019!
|
|
Dr. Kimberly Reid
Associate Director
|
Associate Director Kimberly Reid administers the Global Scholars Program, Gap Year Fellows, and the IDEA Grant programs for the CRE. She is also a recent FSU alumna, earning her PhD in 2018 in International and Multicultural Education!
Last month, Dr. Reid was awarded the 2019 Best Dissertation Award from the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) Study Abroad and International Students Special Interest Group at the CIES annual conference in San Francisco. Her doctoral dissertation, titled Crossing Borders, Crossing Boundaries: Negotiating identity in international service learning, explores how students negotiate their sociocultural identities throughout an international service learning program and compares the identity negotiation experiences of traditionally represented and underrepresented students.
In addition to her academic successes, she enjoys being outdoors, eating ice cream, biking, and incorporating fun, hands-on activities into CRE events. Congratulations, Dr. Reid!
|
|
|
|
|
Nia Harmon
President
, Florida Georgia Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation,
UROP Student 2016-2017
|
Nia is currently working on her Honors in the Major thesis research in physical chemistry under the supervision of Dr. Thierry Dubroca at the
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
. Her research involves studying the dynamics of radicals and the target molecule, carbon-13 tetrachloride, in solution using two techniques: liquid scalar Overhauser dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) and electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy.
During her time in UROP, she worked in Dr. Lei Zhu's organic chemistry lab where she synthesized fluorescent dyes used to image zinc (II) in living cells. She also served as vice president of
FGLSAMP
, before serving two terms as president. She spearheaded FGLSAMP's involvement in service through
FSU STEM Day
and the MagLab Open House.
Nia presented her research at the 2017
ACC Meeting of the Minds
and the 2019
National Conference for Undergraduate Researc
h. She is an IDEA Grant recipient, being awarded the 2019 Scott and Ina McNichols Undergraduate Research Award, which will fund her honors thesis research this summer. After she graduates, she plans to earn her PhD in physical chemistry.
|
|
Benji Charles,
Member
, Florida Georgia Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation,
UROP student 2018-2019
|
Benji Charles was born in Haiti and raised in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and i
s a third year transfer student majoring in computer science.
For the past two semesters, he has conducted research through UROP at the
Research Computing Center
under Paul Van Der Mark, PhD & Prasad Hemantha Maddumage, PhD using FSU’s supercomputer to complete a research project titled “Using Machine Learning to Predict Financial Markets”. He presented his research twice at the
2019 Undergraduate Research Symposium
and at Tallahassee's
MLx19 (Machine Learning Expo 2019)
. He is a member of the FGLSAMP (Florida Georgia Louis Stokes Alliance for Minorities Participation) and Theta Tau: Professional Engineering Fraternity.
He plans to take the GRE and apply to graduate school next year. Benji wants to focus on machine learning and analyzing big data. This summer he will go to Orlando to intern for Lockheed Martin, the largest defense contractor in the world.
|
|
|
Florida State University encourages students to pursue research opportunities in their area of interest.
Experiments done in a laboratory, research conducted in the archives of a library, interviews taken to explore a social or political concern, fieldwork leading to a better understanding of a social or environmental situation, artistic work created, and comparisons of best educational practices are all ways to explore research opportunities.
|
|
|
|
|
Here are some tips on how to connect to research this summer:
- Identify faculty and students doing research in your field on a department website or through CRE advising.
- Reach out to a professor, post-doc, or graduate student about research they are working on, introduce yourself and your interests
- Set up a time to meet with them, often they are working through the summer and don't have a heavy class load
- Or check out National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates or the the Student Opportunity Center for opportunities outside of FSU.
|
|
CRE DROP IN HOURS SUMMER 2019
May 8 — August 15, 2019
Monday 10 - 12 pm
Tuesday 10 - 12 pm
Thursday 12:30 - 2:30 pm
Friday 12: 30 - 2:30 pm
Contact:
Morgan Hamilton
mjhamilton@fsu.edu
Visit our
Getting Started page to learn how to schedule an advising appointment, and find more resources for continuing or beginning your research!
|
|
|
|
|
|
CRE Spotlights wants to feature your news!
|
We are constantly amazed by what our current students and alumni are working on, so share your success stories with us to be featured in our monthly newsletter and weekly social media posts. Fill out this form to share your news!
|
|
|
|
Engaging students in research, innovation, and scholarship is the hallmark of a great research university. Through this engagement, students become better thinkers, innovators, and problem solvers, cultivating a depth of understanding needed to make a positive difference in the world.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
