FEATURE OF THE MONTH
START STRONG,
FINISH STRONGER!
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What a semester! The CRE and Florida State University wish to celebrate all of our students, as they persevered through an unprecedented shift to virtual learning and engagement. Let's take a look back at what we've accomplished this semester, and, most importantly: congratulations graduating seniors!
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This semester has certainly been unique, but everyone stepped up to the challenge to transition to online learning and engagement! Take a look at all we have accomplished just this semester and remember that we will get through anything.
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Inaugural Florida Undergraduate Research Posters at the Capitol
On February 10th, 2020, the inaugural Florida Undergraduate Research Posters at the Capitol was hosted by the
Florida Undergraduate Research Association (FURA) and organized by FSU's CRE in the Florida State Capitol building in downtown Tallahassee. Selected students from colleges and universities across the state of Florida shared their research with lawmakers, aides, and citizens!
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Florida Undergraduate Research Conference 2020
The 2020 Florida Undergraduate Research Conference (FURC) was a great success! Hosted by Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers, Florida, from February 21st to 22nd, 2020, FURC is one of the largest multi-disciplinary research conferences in the country. Students attending FURC had the opportunity to showcase their own research and connect with student researchers and faculty at other Florida institutions as well as graduate school recruiters.
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2020 Virtual Undergraduate Research Symposium
This year, CRE's largest event, the Undergraduate Research Symposium, was held virtually through Zoom. Congratulations to the UROP leaders, UROP students, Garnet and Gold Scholar Society, and Honors in the Major student presenters, as well as all undergraduate researchers who presented their research in this new forum! We were all impressed and inspired by your adaptability and the quality of your research.
In addition to the research poster presentations, the Nourishing Creativity lunch hour featured four creative research projects including poetry, visual art, digital archiving, and blogging! You can see their presentations at the link below.
Thank you all so much for a successful Symposium!
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President's Humanitarian of the Year Award
Global Scholar and IDEA Grant Recipient Myah Freeman
Myah Freeman was recently recognized as the FSU President's Humanitarian of the Year! Myah is a third-year student majoring in the Bachelor of Fine Arts Program here at FSU. During the summer of 2019, she served with nonprofit organization Maison de la Gare through the FSU Global Scholars Program. This organization assists in providing the talibé children of Saint-Louis, Senegal with the necessary resources that they lack. She is also a 2020 IDEA Grant winner, so look forward to seeing more of her work at the President's Showcase of Undergraduate Research in the fall!
Other CRE students were recognized the award as well! Congratulations to Celina Meyer, Carlos Rodriguez, and Rebekah Hagans.
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The University Libraries UROP Excellence in Research Initiative Award
The University Libraries 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 affords students the opportunity to apply library resources and services to their interdisciplinary research projects. The award ceremony recognizes the students for their accomplishments in finishing the program and gives first, second, and third place prizes to outstanding UROP students.
1st place, Angie Cole
2nd place, Laurie-Yolita Louissaint
3rd place, Lilly Stevens
Watch the video below!
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Finish Strong, Florida State!
Saturday, May 2, 2020 at 2:00 pm
“We were all heartbroken when the coronavirus pandemic forced us to cancel spring commencement at the Tucker Center,” Thrasher said. “We still want to recognize our students on graduation day and award the academic degrees that they earned through years of study and hard work. Hopefully, this virtual ceremony will give our graduates and their loved ones an opportunity to participate in a meaningful shared experience.”
President John Thrasher will preside over the ceremony, which will be streamed on the university’s website, Facebook, and YouTube channels.
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Apply to be a part of the 2020-2021 Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP)
Deadline to apply for UROP: Friday, May 1, 2020
(Transfer student deadline: Wednesday, July 1, 2020)
*This program is for first- and second-year students (you must be a current high school senior, a current first-year at FSU, or an incoming transfer student to FSU in order to apply).
Learn more about UROP by following this link.
Program Components:
- Conduct research 5 -10 hours per week assisting a faculty member, graduate student, or campus or community partner
- Meet bi-weekly with a UROP Leader and fellow UROP students in a colloquium, where you receive personalized guidance about conducting undergraduate research and campus resources
- Present at the annual Undergraduate Research Symposium
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UROP Research Mentor Project Proposal Application
Deadline to submit UROP project proposal: Monday, August 17, 2020
The Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) is an initiative by the Center for Undergraduate Research and Academic Engagement (CRE) to engage high-achieving undergraduates in the academic culture of research and to offer help to faculty members. Open to all departments, the program is three-fold:
- Students participate in a UROP colloquium class that introduces them to the practice of research, provides guest faculty speakers, and offers continuous support and training
- Students work as research assistants to faculty members, post-docs, or advanced graduate students
- Students present their Research Mentors’ projects and their contribution to those projects at the annual Undergraduate Research Symposium
As UROP Research Mentors, faculty members, post-docs, graduate students, and campus partners can be partnered with student research assistants for a year-long period at no cost. There is no obligation to take a UROP student if you submit a project; you select the UROP student with whom you would like to work at the beginning of fall semester.
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Words of Encouragement for Our Graduating Seniors!
For the next few weeks, Friends of HSF will be posting messages to help ground and celebrate our students to encourage them in a time of unprecedented disruption. Thank you to those who have contributed!
If you are a friend or alumni who wants to submit your message, please do so below!
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Submit Your Successes to HSF "Class Notes"
In a time where we could use a positive story, we invite you to share yours through our Class Notes submission! If anyone has exciting or positive news to share, Friends of HSF and the CRE will share them with our students, readers, and community.
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UROP RESEARCH MENTOR AWARDS
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Dr. Elizabeth Coggeshall
Faculty Research Mentor Award Winner 2020
The Faculty Research Mentor Award was awarded to Dr. Elizabeth Coggeshall for mentoring UROP student Luis Sanchez in research about modern language, Italian, and Dante Alighieri.
"Close mentorship of undergraduate students in the fields of the humanities is essential, primarily because students arrive at college with little to no idea –not even a fictional one –of what professional humanities research actually entails and how collaborative it can be. I find that many students begin their college careers with a deep-rooted passion for the humanities, but have only a vague notion of what it means to do the work on a professional level."
From Dr. Coggeshall's research philosophy.
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Dr. Lorenzo Ruffoni
Post-Doc Research Mentor Award Winner 2020
The Post-Doc Research Mentor Award was awarded to Dr. Ruffoni for mentoring UROP student Miguel Barquinero in mathematics beyond proofs and theory.
"As a first-generation college student, I am deeply aware of the fact I can be a researcher today mainly thanks to the amazing mentors who have guided and inspired me through school and college. This is a debt that I am very excited to pay back by mentoring undergraduate students, initiating new minds to the pleasures of research."
From Dr. Ruffoni's research philosophy.
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Katherine Musacchio Schafer
Graduate Student Research Mentor Award Winner 2020
The Graduate Student Research Mentor Award was awarded to Katherine Musacchio Schafer for mentoring Gabriela Herrerias and Summer Grace Fulcher in conducting meta analysis on the risk and preventive factors of veteran suicide.
"Imagine meeting over a dozen undergraduate students, all of whom excitedly and emphatically want to collaborate with you. Imagine their eagerness to contribute, so many good ideas, and obvious potential for academic success. Now imagine the impossible task of choosing just two. Choosing two who will be smart, quick, efficient workers. Choosing two who will happily meet with you until the project is done. And most importantly, choosing two who will be kind, lighthearted, and a joy to work with. As a Undergraduate Research Opportunity Mentor that was my task."
From Katherine Musacchio Schafer's research philosophy.
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Alex Oldham
Graduate Assistant, Center for Undergraduate Research and Academic Engagement
Our Graduate Assistant, Alex Oldham, is graduating with her Masters in Sport Psychology this spring and will be moving up to the Baltimore-D.C. area to pursue work as a mental performance consultant.
She has spent the last two years making us laugh, helping everywhere she can, and being the best graduate assistant we could imagine! She completed her duties all while working with area teams as a sport psychology consultant.
Recently, Alex was nominated for a position as a performance expert with the US Army and got engaged to her partner, Peter!
Congrats, Alex, and good luck with the next stage of your life!
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Morgan Hamilton
Assistant Director, Center for Undergraduate Research and Academic Engagement
The CRE is sad to see Assistant Director Morgan Hamilton leave, but we are proud of his work and wish him the best in his future endeavors!
Morgan served as the outreach and event coordinator for the office, but he brought his skills as a Fine Artist to the table to further shape the CRE identity. We will miss his humor and laughter in the office!
He will be continuing his doctoral studies full time in Fall 2020 in Museum Education and Visitor-Centered Curation.
"I am excited to throw myself into my passion: art and education in the museum. Though I may not work in the office any more, I will be right around the corner in the Johnston building! Who knows, I may even apply to be a UROP research mentor!"
Thank you, Morgan, for you all you've done!
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Moira Conley
UROP Student
"While at Florida State, Conley has also combined and explored her interests through various research opportunities on campus. During her freshman year, she completed the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) with Professor of Music Theory Michael Buchler, whose research focuses on trends in cadences, or the end of a musical phrase. Through this UROP project, Conley and Buchler found that the cadences in modern musicals are ending on
more optimistic, higher scales than they had
been previously."
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Emilee
Wigglesworth
Emilee Wigglesworth is a rising senior in the Creative Writing program here at Florida State, working towards her BA degree. She is presently working under Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English and American poet, David Kirby, on her honors thesis–a book of poetry titled,
Monday’s, Calls From Your Mother, And All The Things We’ve Lost.
After an advanced workshop taught by Dr. Kirby in the fall semester of 2019 coincided with the death of Earle Kelly, one of Emilee’s close friends and a fellow student at Florida State, she found an outlet for her grief through poetry.
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"When Earle passed away in November, there is no better way to describe it than: my entire world turned upside down. That night after his mother had called me the only thing I could manage to write was,
the last thing we did together was read my poetry
. The next day, in a sudden burst of creative energy and deep aching, I typed out the entirety of
Monday’s, Calls From Your Mother, And All The Things We’ve Lost
in the Notes app on my phone. From there, little was changed, and it became the title poem of my thesis project. My poetry book is a deeply-confessional creative exploration of loss, grief, and change – not just through death, but through the emergence from childhood into adulthood, an embrace of sexuality, and the separations between love and abuse. I plan to defend my thesis and graduate in the upcoming fall semester. I believe that through poetry and the exploration of loss in my thesis, I will be able to face vulnerability and grief head-on; I will be able to make something beautiful of this pain and uncertainty. It is important that I honor and commemorate the life that Earle lived, and it is important that I be candid in this grief I am facing, so that others who also experience grief feel less alone in the world. I know that Earle would have wanted good things to come of his death, so I make this art for him and for all the people looking to make sense of loss themselves."
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Alexa Berland
Editing, Writing, and Media graduating senior, CRE Intern
Alexa Berland is a senior graduating with the Class of 2020 this Saturday, May 2nd during the virtual commencement!
"This past semester, I had the privilege of working as an intern for the CRE! These past four years have been an incredible time that has allowed me to develop my skills academically, socially, and as a leader. I attribute such to the incredible education I received through the College of Arts and Sciences as an English major concentrating in Editing, Writing and Media as well as my involvement in Dance Marathon at FSU, my Panhellenic Sorority: Sigma Delta Tau, and the incredible learning opportunity that was provided to me through my incredible internship at the CRE!
Through all of these opportunities, I have grown into a much stronger pre-professional and I feel ready for what lies ahead. While these times have been incredibly difficult, I can’t help but still feel a sense of hope in all that I have done in my undergraduate career and in its ability to guide me through these trying times. I know we all feel similarly; our time was cut devastatingly short, and we all are in an uncertain period of unknown. However, please remember all that we have accomplished over our academic journeys, and let that be a reason to celebrate! And with time, we will figure out our next steps, but for now, be proud of what we have done in the wake of uncertainty, and know that this too, shall pass! As always, 'Go 'Noles!'"
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CRE VIRTUAL ADVISING
Please set up a meeting through Campus Connect, use the instructions on the “
Getting Started
” page, and we will respond to you with a link to a Zoom appointment.
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