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Student research featured today

Sigma Xi exhibits coincide with faculty research day Friday

Cougar News Services

The University's top student researchers will take center stage today during Sigma Xi Research Day, an event designed to showcase projects in fields from social science to computing.

Student exhibits will be displayed in Waldorf Rooms C and D at the University Hilton today and Friday. Five undergraduate researchers will receive awards of $100 each and five graduate students will receive $200 awards. Three graduate students will also receive awards of $300 each and will be nominated as associate members of Sigma Xi, the national science and engineering research honor society.

All students conducting research under the direction of UH faculty members were invited to enter their projects.

"Giving (the students) the chance to display their projects alongside their mentors this year to a wider audience base that includes key industry leaders is an extra bonus," Laura Vailas, associate dean at the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics and an officer in UH's Sigma Xi chapter, said in a release.

Judging will take place from 10 to 11:45 a.m. today, and the exhibits will remain on view through Friday's fifth annual faculty Research and Scholarship Day.
 

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