IMPROVING POLICE CARS, RECOVERING LOST
MANUSCRIPTS:
UH RESEARCH DAY DELIVERS
Sixth Biennial Campus Event Features Exhibits,
Demonstrations from Sciences to Humanities
HOUSTON, March 28, 2006 – From hard sciences and engineering
to psychology and literature, a treasure trove of projects will
be showcased at an event to focus on cutting-edge research and scholarly
programs at the University of Houston.
UH’s sixth biennial Research and Scholarship Day will take
place from 9 a.m. to noon, Friday, March 31 in the Conrad Hilton
Ballroom at the UH Hilton Hotel. Exhibits describing various projects
and research programs will be on public display with UH researchers
and scholars on hand to give demonstrations and to discuss their
research. Held every two years, this event celebrates research and
scholarship activities happening on campus and showcases the university’s
outstanding research efforts and potential for intra- and interdisciplinary
collaborations. In addition to being open to the public, Houston-area
educators, members of business and industry, Texas Medical Center
personnel and others from the area’s academic community will
be in attendance.
“Research is an integral part of our educational mission,”
said Arthur C. Vailas, vice chancellor and vice president for research
and intellectual property management at UH. “We have many
exciting research programs taking place on our campus, and we support
an atmosphere that enhances scientific and creative activities.”
Featured at this year’s event are projects ranging from recovering
lost Latino writings that date back from the American colonial period
by way of the Arte Público Press to highlighting the growing
partnership between academia, industry and the law enforcement community
in fighting crime with special high-tech police cars courtesy of
the “Smart Police Car Test and Evaluation Project.”
Other projects on display will include exhibits and demonstrations
from the Texas Learning and Computational Center from its state-of-the-art
computation, visualization and educational facilities for environmental
studies, biological, biomedical and energy research, as well as
from the Abramson Family Center for the Future of Health, which
is dedicated to accomplishing the research, prescribing the action
and training the people who provide Houston and its surrounding
areas with the finest health care available in the world.
Preceding and overlapping with the grand faculty event is a showcase
of the best student research at UH during the annual Sigma Xi Research
Day, sponsored by the UH chapter of the scientific research society
Sigma Xi. This sister student event to Research and Scholarship
Day will begin at 9:15 a.m., March 30 and last until 12:30 p.m.,
March 31 in the Waldorf-Astoria room of the UH Hilton Hotel. During
the Sigma Xi event, 76 undergraduate and graduate poster presentations,
representing scientific and social sciences research, will be on
display.
Judging for the Sigma Xi student event will take place from 10
a.m. to 12:30 p.m., March 30, with a 4 p.m. reception announcing
the student winners, along with the Sigma Xi Faculty Research Award
recipient, who will give a public lecture in the fall.
“We’ve worked very hard over the last few years to
create a Sigma Xi Research Day that mirrors a real scientific meeting
so that students get a sense of what that entails,” said Kelly
M. Standifer, associate professor of pharmacology and president
of the UH Sigma Xi chapter. “The time and effort that goes
into the poster presentations is impressive. The students do an
outstanding job, and their work is a great advertisement for UH.
I hope everyone takes some time to walk through the posters and
appreciate this for themselves.”
About the University of Houston
The University of Houston, Texas’ premier metropolitan research
and teaching institution, is home to more than 40 research centers
and institutes and sponsors more than 300 partnerships with corporate,
civic and governmental entities. UH, the most diverse research university
in the country, stands at the forefront of education, research and
service with more than 35,000 students.
For more information on the UH Division of Research, visit http://www.research.uh.edu/.
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