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For the second consecutive year, ��ż���'s acceptance rate for the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) reached 100 percent. Fifteen students from nine disciplines will deliver 11 oral presentations at the conference in April at the University of North Carolina Asheville.

��ż���’s Collaborative Undergraduate Research Program started sending student-researchers to NCUR in 2011, and has consistently exceeded the conference’s average acceptance rate (ranging from 80–90 percent in a given year).

NCUR teams from ��ż���’s also participated as Summer Scholars 2015, an initiative of ��ż���’s Collaborative Undergraduate Research Program. One key expectation of the Summer Scholars participants is to present their research at a national conference.

“This is a difficult challenge. Juggling faculty and student academic schedules and preparing work for public dissemination is a high-demand endeavor,” says Lynda Szymanski, director of the Collaborative Undergraduate Research Program. “The fact that all of our Summer Scholar teams are presenting at NCUR or another prestigious national conference is a testament to the commitment of the faculty-student teams, the rigor of their work, and the support this program offers our participants.”

In addition to NCUR, six student and five chemistry faculty members are presenting research in March at the American Chemical Society’s National Meeting and Exposition in San Diego. Communications Studies major Bri Byram ’17 and Assistant Professor Rafael Cervantes are scheduled to present their Summer Scholars work at the Western States Communication Association Conference on February 28 in San Diego. Associate Professor Colleen Carpenter presented her work with Jane Wolfgram '16 at the American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature in Atlanta this past November.