| The Annual UW Undergraduate Research Symposium |
2008 Symposium Schedule
Friday, May 16, 2008, 12-5 pm, in Mary Gates Hall
12:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks
- UW President Mark Emmert and Provost Phyllis Wise
- Ed Taylor, Dean and Vice Provost for Undergraduate Academic Affairs
12:00 - 1:00 Poster Session I
1:00 - 2:30 Oral Session I
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- Biophysical Chemistry: Models and applications (288)
- Community Development, Land Rights and Identity (242)
- Destruction and Reconstruction in Literature, Arts and Theatre (295)
- Diachronic Expressions of Religious and Literary Concepts (284)
- Dynamic Earth: Earthquake detection, environmental contamination, the paleoclimate record, and education (248)
- Ecology (287)
- Evaluating Non–Invasive Imaging and Surgical Techniques in In-Vivo Models (231)
- Identity, Religion, and the Arts (238)
- Innovative Methods of Evaluating and Treating Illnesses (251)
- Media, Power, and the Political System: Comparing Across Nations (254)
- Medical Therapeutics and Devices (389)
- Micro to Macro: Sensing and Actuation from DNA to Humans (228)
- Molecular Insights into Evolutionary Processes (271)
- Nano- and Micro-structured Bioengineering Devices (241)
- Social Activism and Community Empowerment (234)
2:30 - 3:30 Poster Session II
3:30 - 5:00 Oral Session II
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- Advances in Materials and Structures (287)
- Anthropogenic Forces in Nature: Mitigating the Mess (234)
- Computational Mathematics (288)
- Innovation and Change in Educational Programs (295)
- Looking at Problematic Areas in the Formulation of American Foreign Policy (242)
- Molecular Determinants of Transmission, Resistance and Virulence in Several Significant Human Pathogens (241)
- Neuronal Systems in Development and Disease (389)
- Novel Approaches to Biological Problems (271)
- Optics, Atoms, and Nuclei (284)
- Performing Research: Exploring issues of economics, aesthetics and site in contemporary dance and theatre (Meany Hall Studio, Room 267)
- Psychological Perspectives on Self, Identity, and Culture (238)
- Relationships Between Biological and Environmental Systems (251)
- Sensing the Outside World and Doing Something About It (231)
- The Lives to Come: Bodies, Beliefs, and Social Justice (228)
- The Performance of Social Responsibility (248)
- Microscopic Structures: Cells, chromosomes and genes (254)



