Monthly Archives: November 2018

OUR Fall Expo Draws Close to 250 Students


Close to 250 Purdue University students took part in the Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR) Fall Undergraduate Research Exposition (Fall Expo) Monday, Nov. 12 in the Purdue Memorial Union Ballrooms. OUR officials reported 19 students delivered oral presentations, and 105 posters were displayed.

More information about the 2018 Fall Expo is available at www.purdue.edu/undergrad-research/students/conference/index.php. To download the conference program, go to www.purdue.edu/undergrad-research/students/conference/archive/documents/FallExpo_FullProgram_2018-11-11.pdf.

Purdue University student Hollis Druhet (Purdue College of Liberal Arts) delivers a presentation at the Purdue Office of Undergraduate Research Fall Expo, Nov. 12, 2018.

Purdue University student Hollis Druhet (Purdue College of Liberal Arts) delivers a presentation at the Purdue Office of Undergraduate Research Fall Expo, Nov. 12, 2018.

Emilie Newsham (Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University) discusses her research at the poster session part of the Purdue Office of Undergraduate Research 2018 Fall Expo (held Nov. 12, 2018).

Emilie Newsham (Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University) discusses her research at the poster session part of the Purdue Office of Undergraduate Research 2018 Fall Expo (held Nov. 12).

 

Chelsie Rummage (Purdue Polytechnic) poses with her research poster "Applying Participatory Research Methods to New Degree Development," at the Purdue University Office of Undergraduate Research 2018 Fall Expo.

Chelsie Rummage (Purdue Polytechnic) poses with her research poster “Applying Participatory Research Methods to New Degree Development,” at the Purdue University Office of Undergraduate Research 2018 Fall Expo.

 

Rob St. Pierre and Caitlin Carrol pose with their research poster “Connecting the Mindfulness Construct to the Hospitality and Tourism Industry and Its Students,” at the OUR Fall Expo (Nov. 12, 2018).

Faculty Presentations, Publications, Awards, Accomplishments – October 2018

Presentations, Publications, and Scholarly Activity

Andersson, Nanette. “How Active Learning Centers Design Integrates Classrooms, Libraries and Site.” SCUP Society for College and University Planning 2018 North Central Regional Conference, in Indianapolis, IN, October 2, 2018. Panel presentation with Dave Nelson, CIE and Jackie Bieghler.

Chapman, Bert: “Mackinder and the Arctic’s Emerging Geopolitics: Recommendations for the U.S. and Its NATO Allies” presentation (American Competitiveness Society Conference, Washington, D.C., Oct. 27)” (published in Purdue Libraries E-Pubs, https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/lib_fspres/131) ; and “Enhancing Your Intelligence Agency Information Resource IQ: PT. 4,” National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, National Intelligence University, and National Reconnaissance Office for the U.S. Govt. Publishing Office’s FDLP Academy.

Hannah, Matt. Organized Purdue Libraries’ History Harvest event for the Sesquicentennial, Sept. 21, 2018, in collaboration with Trevor Burrows; presented “Digital Humanities with a Public Face” at THAT Camp at Purdue Fort Wayne, Oct. 5; presented Visualizing Scholarly Communication” with Nina Collins at Academic Libraries of Indiana, Oct. 26; and presented “Measuring Modernism’s Style: A Stylometric Analysis of Literature” and “Aldo Giorgini, Purdue University, and the Computational Avant-Garde” at the Modernist Studies Association’s annual conference November 8-11.

Mykytiuk, Lawrence. “Real People of the Bible: What Archaeology Tells Us About David and more than 50 Other Biblical Characters.” Illustrated presentation to the Madison Biblical Archaeology Society, October 20, 2018, Madison, Wisconsin, www.radioscribe.com/mbas.htm.

Witt, Michael, et al.: “Data Sharing and Citations: New Author Guidelines Promoting Open and FAIR Data in the Earth, Space, and Environmental Sciences,” Nov. 1, 2018.

Zakharov, Wei. & Maybee, Clarence (2018). Bridging the gap: Information literacy and learning in online undergraduate courses. Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning. DOI: 10.1080/1533290X.2018.1499256

Awards and Grants

Nicole Kong was awarded a Research and Scholarship Grant of $1,069 (by Research Council) to travel to the Geological Society of America (GSA) 130th Annual Meeting, November 4-7, 2018, to present “FAIR Data – What can geoinformatics do?”

Margaret Phillips was awarded a Research and Scholarship Grant of $550 (by Research Council) to publish gold OA with the Journal of Academic Librarianship. (The following article has been accepted for publication in JAL: Phillips, M., Van Epps, A.S., Johnson, N., Zwicky, D. (2018) Effective engineering information literacy instruction: A systematic literature review. Journal of Academic Librarianship.)

Photos from Libraries’ Celebrating Research Event

Purdue Libraries: Celebrating Research, Oct. 23, 2018

Purdue Libraries: Celebrating Research, Oct. 23, 2018