Happy…almost Friday! The Week in UR is coming to you one day early this week, so I can’t open with my customary end-of-week salutation. Pity that. But it is for good reason. There’s just so darn much going on with UR at TSC these days that our activities have started to creep right on up to the close of business on Friday afternoons. And somehow I find that I don’t even mind that, because the truth is that it’s been a lot of fun. Since there is this flurry of activity on Friday afternoons, it might make sense, then, to disseminate this weekly missive a bit earlier some weeks.
To wit. Last Friday, the Undergraduate Research Board of Students (URBS. Still a working title.), together with the TSC Engineering Club, travelled to the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering to tour some of the college’s most celebrated research labs, including the High Performance Materials Institute (HPMI), the Florida Center for Advanced Aero-Propulsion (FCAAP), and the Center for Intelligent Systems, Control, and Robotics (CISOR). These are secured lab spaces, and few members of the public get a chance to ever see them. Our thanks to the leadership of the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering for making this event possible. And most especially for their warm welcome. We even got our names up on the big screen in the lobby of HPMI!
But wait. There’s more. Tomorrow, Friday, October 10, our semi-weekly URBS meeting will feature a talk by Dr. Asli Kaya, of the FSU Center for Undergraduate Research and Academic Enrichment (FSU CRE). Dr. Kaya will introduce FSU’s Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP), and she’ll present some important information about research ethics, a topic that anyone doing research, at any level, needs to know about. Dr. Kaya is an accomplished researcher herself, and we’re so grateful for her willingness to speak on this important topic. All are welcome to attend, so please share, repost, spread the word, and whatnot.
More exciting news to share, this time about the TSC Undergraduate Research Journal (TSC URJ): All editorial decisions have been returned to authors via the journal’s online platform. Authors have been informed of the deadline for resubmissions, which falls, for most, right around October 26. We’re still on track to publish TSC URJ 1.1 by the end of fall semester, which will mark a proud milestone for TSC URJ, the Undergraduate Research Program and, most of all, our student authors.
One final
reminder: For those who already completed a UR poster presentation last year, there’s
still time to submit a proposal to present your poster at the FSU
Transfer Research & Leadership Summit, to be held Monday, October
20. The FSU Office of Transfer Services has generously offered to include 5
current TSC students as presenters. As of Tuesday, they hadn’t received any
submissions from TSC students. This is a great opportunity for TSC students who
have already completed a research project to present their work to an audience
of expert researchers at FSU. Those interested can apply at the following link:
https://airtable.com/appZOvCVJ26r5Gcq2/pagwvrvV079w9tLr7/form
And that just about does it for another installment of The Week in UR. I look forward to seeing at least some of you Friday afternoon for Dr. Kaya’s presentation, and maybe to talk more things UR. Until then, I wish you a calm end to what I’m sure has been a frenetic week here at the close of the eighth (count them, eight) week of fall semester.
