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Campus.News for the Week of May 2, 2005 *
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* Out and About: Undergraduate Research Forum and Awards

Forty-five student projects were displayed at Rensselaer's annual Undergraduate Research Forum and Awards held April 15. Each school of the Institute was represented in one of two categories — applied design research or theoretical research. To participate, individual students and teams created a poster display of the research project and gave explanations to a panel of judges, made up of faculty from each of the schools. Students also explained their projects to interested faculty and students during the exhibition. Lester Gerhardt, acting dean of the School of Engineering, and Sam Wait, associate dean of the School of Science, presented cash awards to the top three projects in each category, as determined by the judging panel.
Faculty members served on the judging panel to determine recipients of the Undergraduate Research Forum Awards (top).

Samit Shah, biology major, describes his project "Effect of Ethanol on F-actin Distribution in Axonal Growth Cones: The Role of Rac1 GTPase." Shah was awarded second place in the applied design research category (bottom).

Mitch Mailman, physics major, was awarded first place in the theoretical research category for his project "Study of Spin-Polarized Conductance in Carbon Nanowires" (left).

Jason Coutermarsh, computer systems engineering and computer science dual major, receives his first-place award in the applied design research category from Sam Wait, associate dean of the School of Science. Countermarsh's project was titled "Mobile Studio" (right).
Photos by Kris Qua
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