  {"id":60312,"date":"2017-05-16T16:15:58","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T02:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=60312"},"modified":"2021-08-31T15:36:53","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T01:36:53","slug":"manoa-undergraduate-showcase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/05\/16\/manoa-undergraduate-showcase\/","title":{"rendered":"M\u0101noa Undergraduate Showcase highlights research and creative work"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_60324\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60324\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/manoa-showcase-awardees2017.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"223\" class=\"size-full wp-image-60324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/manoa-showcase-awardees2017.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/manoa-showcase-awardees2017-260x94.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-60324\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Undergraduate Showcase 2017 awardees<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"clear-photo\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/undergrad\/showcase\/\">Undergraduate Showcase of Research and Creative Work<\/a>, which highlights the research and creative work of University of H<span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at Ma&#257;noa undergraduates across campus, was held on May 5.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by the <a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/undergrad\/honors\/\">Honors Program<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/undergrad\/urop\/\">Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program<\/a>, the showcase featured more than 75 presentations and posters by 100 undergraduate students. Attendees commented on the potential, diversity and volume of research being done by students on campus. A faculty member who came to the morning oral presentations commented on the &ldquo;amazing projects&rdquo; being undertaken by &ldquo;very competent young researchers&rdquo; and the &ldquo;level or professionalism and confidence&rdquo; in the presentations.<\/p>\n<h2>Top presentation honors<\/h2>\n<h3>Oral presentations<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Arts and humanities<br \/>\nResearch First Place: <strong>Sydney Blanke<\/strong> (Linguistics, Honors and <abbr title=\"Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program\">UROP<\/abbr> recipient)<br \/>\nPresentation Title: Linguistic Relativity in Action: A Comparison of Motion Perception in English and Russian Speakers<br \/>\nMentor: <strong>Kamil Deen<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Arts and humanities<br \/>\nCreative First Place: <strong>Angie Anderson<\/strong> (English and Theater, Honors, <abbr>UROP<\/abbr> recipient)<br \/>\nPresentation Title: Grand Guignol: The Theatre of Horror, the Efficacy of Horrific Staging, and When My Body Cried Out<br \/>\nMentors: <strong>Todd Sammons<\/strong>, <strong>Markus Wessendorf<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Engineering and computer sciences<br \/>\nFirst Place: <strong>Ziad Alexander<\/strong>, <strong>Nikolai Herrera<\/strong>, <strong>Michael Howard<\/strong>, <strong>Gavin Nall<\/strong>, <strong>Daryl Patlingrao<\/strong>, <strong>Travis Scott<\/strong>, <strong>Naftali Tolibas<\/strong> (Mechanical Engineering, <abbr>UROP<\/abbr> recipients)<br \/>\nPresentation Title: Design and Fabrication of an OSLS Electric All-Terrain Vehicle<br \/>\nMentor: <strong>Lloyd Hihara<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Natural sciences<br \/>\nFirst Place: <strong>Eric Welch<\/strong> (Global Environmental Science, <abbr title=\"Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program\">UROP<\/abbr> recipient)<br \/>\nPresentation Title: Groundwater Modeling in Pesticide Fluxes of the Faga&#699;alu Stream, American Samoa<br \/>\nMentor: <strong>Henrietta Dulai<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Social sciences<br \/>\nFirst Place: <strong>Karolyn Lam<\/strong> (Public Health, Honors)<br \/>\nPresentation Title: Preventing Infant Deaths through Safe Sleep Education<br \/>\nMentors: Lisa Kimura, Denise Nelson-Hurwitz<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Poster presentations<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>First Place: <strong>Madisyn Uekawa<\/strong> (Public Health, English, Honors)<br \/>\nPoster Title: What I Chose: Enhancing Suicide Prevention through Young Adult Fiction<br \/>\nMentor: <strong>Susan Schultz<\/strong>, <strong>Jeanelle Sugimoto-Matsuda<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½ the <a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/undergrad\/showcase\/\">event website<\/a> for information about the Undergraduate Showcase or <a href=\"mailto:showcase@hawaii.edu\">email<\/a> the Undergraduate Showcase.<\/p>\n<p>For event photos, please visit the Undergraduate Showcase <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/137704153@N03\/sets\/72157680491774733\">FLickr album<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attendees commented on the potential, diversity and volume of research being done by students on campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[113,179,308,301,660,9,1497],"class_list":["post-60312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-college-of-arts-and-humanities","tag-college-of-engineering","tag-college-of-natural-sciences","tag-college-of-social-sciences","tag-student-recognition","tag-uh-manoa","tag-urop","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60312"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77379,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60312\/revisions\/77379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}