/news-archive/tag/olivia-pate/ 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Mon, 22 Jan 2018 20:40:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /news-archive/2018/01/22/surf-fellowships/ Mon, 22 Jan 2018 20:40:11 +0000 /news/?p=69047 ... 7 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock students receive research fellowships]]> Seven 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock students have received聽a prestigious Student Undergraduate Research Fellowships from the Arkansas Department of Higher Education to conduct research. The Student Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program provides up to $2,750 to undergraduate students and their mentors to conduct in-depth research projects in their specific fields of study with the assistance of faculty mentors. To be eligible, all fellowship recipients have a minimum grade-point average of 3.25, at least 30 hours of credit toward a degree, and support of a faculty mentor. Funds also are provided for students to travel to conferences to present their accomplishments. Students from all academic disciplines were encouraged to apply. 鈥淩esearch is the foundation of every great discovery, and the only way to prepare students for advanced research at the graduate level is to prepare them as undergraduates,鈥� 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Chancellor Andrew Rogerson said. 鈥淚t鈥檚 so important for our students to learn best practices under the guidance of faculty mentors so they are prepared for more rigorous research as graduate students and as professionals.鈥� The 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock fellows include the following:

• Saiyeeda F. Hossain of Pine Bluff, a double major in sociology and psychology, received 聽$2,750 to research 鈥淧ersonality and Depressive Disorder of College Students: A Focus on Undergraduate Students at 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock.鈥� Saiyeeda鈥檚 faculty mentor is Dr. Neveen Shafeek Amin in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology.
• Dylan Wright of Little Rock, a Spanish and political science double major, received $2,000 to study LGBTQ rights and research 鈥淐ritical Film Perspectives in the Argentine Queer Community.鈥� His faculty sponsor is Dr. Erin Finzer in the Department of World Languages.
• Jesse Horton of Marshall, a criminal justice major, received $2,125 to research the 鈥淚mpact of County-level Economic Disadvantage on Juvenile Case Dispositions in Arkansas.鈥� His faculty sponsor is Dr. Molly Smith in Criminal Justice.
• Nicole Ursin of Batesville, a Donaghey Scholar who is majoring in history and anthropology, received $2,125 for her research project, 鈥淯nderstanding Museum Demographics: Historic Arkansas Museum.鈥� Her sponsor is Dr. Juliana Flinn in the Anthropology Department.
• Trye Price of Benton, a criminal justice major, received $2,125 to research 鈥淚nfluence of Location and Client Characteristics on Perceived Violence Among Victims of Human Trafficking.鈥� His faculty sponsor is Dr. Molly Smith in Criminal Justice.
• Olivia Pate of Jonesboro, a geology and math major, received $2,750 to research her project 鈥淩efining the Sol-Gel Synthesis of Intermediate Composition, Nano-Scale Olivine.鈥� Her faculty sponsor is Dr. Michael T. DeAngelis in the Department of Earth Sciences.
• Patrick Elliott of Little Rock, an electrical and systems engineering major, received $2,750 to research 鈥淓ffective Real-Time Energy Management in a Southern US Power Grid.鈥� His faculty sponsor is 聽Dr. Kamran Iqbal in the Department of Systems Engineering.

The students will complete their research in the spring 2018 semester, and six of the students who also received Signature Experience Awards will exhibit their work at the Student Research and Creative Works Showcase on April 12 in the Jack Stephens Center.        ]]> /news-archive/2017/12/19/earth-sciences-american-geophysical-union/ Tue, 19 Dec 2017 14:28:50 +0000 /news/?p=68885 ... Earth Sciences students present research at American Geophysical Union Conference]]> Six University of Arkansas at Little Rock students and two faculty members had the opportunity to attend one of the largest earth and space science conferences in the world.聽 The group attended the conference Dec. 11-15 in New Orleans, where more than 20,000 oral and poster presentations occurred during the five-day event. 鈥淭he students had the opportunity to present their own original research, observe the presentations from experts in their fields, interact with researchers at all levels and from a wide array of different institutions, partake in professional development workshops and networking events, and meet with potential graduate schools,鈥� Earth Sciences Instructor Joshua Spinler said. The attendees include Spinler; Tom Colby, visiting assistant professor of earth sciences; Kayla Bolin, senior geology major; Olivia Pate, junior geology major; Jason Simmons, senior geology major; and Jeffrey Baggett, Matthew Carey, and Kalyca Spinler, graduate students in the Applied Science program. 鈥淭he students also had the opportunity to see presentations in topics that are not part of the 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Earth Sciences curriculum, which allows them to expand their geologic knowledge base,鈥� Spinler said. Three students presented research conducted with a faculty mentor, Dr. Laura Ruhl, assistant professor of earth sciences. They include:

• 听听听听听Bolin, 鈥淲ater Quality Assessment of the Buffalo River, Arkansas, United States鈥�
• 听听听听听Carey, 鈥淪patial and Temporal Water Quality Dynamics in the Lake Maumelle Reservoir: Geochemical and Planktonic Variance in a Drinking Water Source鈥�
• 听听听听听Simmons, 鈥淯rbanization Effects on Floodplain Sediments in the Fourche Creek Wetlands in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States鈥�

In the upper right photo,聽University of Arkansas at Little Rock students attending the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, from left to right, are Matthew Carey, Kalyca Spinler, Olivia Pate, Kayla Bolin, and Jason Simmons. Photo by Tom Colby.]]>