Dear Geography Faculty and Students,
 
You may know that this coming week is "Undergraduate Research Week" at UT.
 
There are various events that involve our undergraduate students.
 
On Monday, the Baker Center is hosting an Honors Symposium that includes a number of invited speakers (and some free meals, even!). 
 
Undergraduate geography major Jeff Malik will give a presentation on his honor's thesis research in an afternoon session in Classrooms 204-205 in the Baker Center (he is third in a group of three students who will speak between 3:35 and 4:25).
 
Jeff's honors thesis focuses on macroscopic charcoal as evidence of long-term fire history in the Florida Keys, and is part of a larger program of research that Henri and I are directing.  The research is funded by the US Fish and Wildlife Service, and also involves Grant Harley, Desiree Ketteringham, Chris Underwood, and former MS student Joshua Albritton.  Undergraduates: there is scope to involve more students in this work, so if work in the Keys sounds interesting to you, please come and learn about Jeff's project!
 
The link for the Honors Symposium is:
 
http://honors.utk.edu/frontpage/features/honorssymposium/honorssymposium2010.html
 
 
On the chance this would be easier, I also pasted the information below.
 
I hope some of you can attend and support Jeff!
 
Other undergrads will be in the EURECA poster session on undergraduate research later in the week (watch for a second announcement).
 
Sincerely,
 
Sally
 
Sally P. Horn, Professor
Department of Geography
304 Burchfiel Geography Building
1000 Phillip Fulmer Way
The University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996-0925  U.S.A.

phone: (865) 974-6030
fax: (865) 974-6025
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http://web.utk.edu/~utkgeog/faculty/horn.htm
NSF GK-12 Earth Project: http://web.utk.edu/~gk12/

 

Honors Symposium Schedule

Monday, March 22, 2010
Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy

8:00-8:30 a.m. Breakfast
U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander hosts breakfast in the Baker Center’s Rotunda.

8:30-9:00 a.m. “Research and the Public Good”
U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander speaks in the Baker Center’s Toyota Auditorium.

9:05-9:55 a.m. Student Presentations and Research Q&A

Classroom 204-205:
Ellen Epley, senior in College Scholars — Art and Anthropology
Britta Johnson, sophomore in College Scholars — Chemistry
Todd Skelton, senior in College Scholars — Business

Classroom 207-208:
Jaclyn Barnhart, junior in Global Studies
Craig Bleakney, senior in College Scholars — Public Health
Allison Thigpen, senior in College Scholars — Health Policy

Conference Room:
Mark Walker, sophomore in Nuclear Engineering, speaks on how he got involved with research in his field, followed by a question-and-answer session. This session is geared for freshman and sophomore students interested in doing research in the sciences.

10:10-11:00 a.m. “The University in Crisis”
Interim UT President Jan Simek leads a discussion in the Baker Center’s Toyota Auditorium. The discussion addresses issues such as the inevitable additional budget reductions approaching in 2011 and offers critical analysis of the situation of public higher education in the U.S. and in Tennessee but also positive thinking about the future of the UT even in such challenging times. Student participants include Jenny Bledsoe, former editor-in-chief and current opinions editor of The Daily Beacon; Anne Buckle, member of the Provost’s and Dean of Arts and Sciences’ Student Advisory Councils; Todd Skelton, SGA commuter senator and editor-in-chief of Pursuit, UT’s new Undergraduate Research Journal.

11:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Lunch
A light lunch will be provided in the Baker Center’s rotunda.

12:20-1:10 p.m. “Late Lessons of a Scholarship Boy”
Richard Rodriguez, noted writer and journalist, delivers the keynote speech in the Baker Center’s Toyota Auditorium. In his first book, “Hunger of Memory,” Rodriguez wrote about the painful but necessary experience of assimilation and of his difficult Americanization in the classroom, as a Hispanic “scholarship boy” at Stanford University.

1:10-1:25 p.m. Book Signing
Three of Richard Rodriguez’s books will be available for purchase: Brown: The Last Discovery of America, Days of Obligation, and Hunger of Memory, on which Mr. Rodriguez’s speech is based.

1:25-2:15 p.m. Student Presentations and Research Q&A

Classroom 204-205:
Kathryn Dabbs, senior in Mathematics
Shande King, senior in Mathematics
Chelsea Plaut, junior in Mathematics

Classroom 207-208:
Camille Crumpton, sophomore in Economics and Accounting
Catie Karczmarczyk, senior in Political Science
Lindsay Merriman, senior in College Scholars —War and Global Health

Conference Room:
Jenny Bledsoe, junior in Religious Studies and English Literature, speaks on how she got involved with research in her field, followed by a question-and-answer session. This session is geared for freshman and sophomore students interested in doing research in the humanities.

2:30-3:20 p.m. Student Presentations and Research Q&A

Classroom 204-205:
Rachel Grubb, senior in College Scholars — Music
Samantha Senn, senior in Theater

Classroom 207-208:
Laura Grese, senior in Exercise Science
Kevin Kuo, senior in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Jenna McKinnie, senior in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Conference Room:
Catie Karczmarczyk, senior in Political Science, speaks on how she got involved with research in her field, followed by a question-and-answer session. This session is geared for freshman and sophomore students interested in doing research in the social sciences.

3:35-4:25 p.m. Student Presentations

Classroom 204-205:
Michael Jungwirth, senior in College Scholars — Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Jonathan Lockhart, senior in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Chemistry
Jeff Malik, senior in Geography

 
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