{"id":13398,"date":"2021-05-14T17:11:53","date_gmt":"2021-05-15T00:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogschapman.wpenginepowered.com\/wilkinson\/2021\/05\/14\/wilkinson-shines-at-undergraduate-student-symposium\/"},"modified":"2021-05-14T17:11:53","modified_gmt":"2021-05-15T00:11:53","slug":"wilkinson-shines-at-undergraduate-student-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/2021\/05\/14\/wilkinson-shines-at-undergraduate-student-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilkinson Shines at Undergraduate Student Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chapman University\u2019s Center for Undergraduate Excellence<\/a> (CUE) hosted an all-virtual Spring 2021 Undergraduate Student Scholar Symposium<\/a>, May 5 \u2013 May 7. The symposium featured more than 200 poster and oral presentations from diverse academic and creative disciplines (56 of those from Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences<\/a>) allowing student presenters to interact with guests in virtual meeting rooms synchronously.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Student Scholar Symposium is such an important event for the university. It provides an opportunity for students to showcase their intellectual work and for faculty and staff to interact with that work across the disciplines. Once students discover the satisfaction of sharing their ideas and scholarship with an audience, they are more likely to challenge themselves even further,\u201d said Dr. Jan Osborn, Associate Professor of English.\u00a0<\/i><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cThis was our 3rd all virtual symposium. While it will never replace the in-person symposium, it went very well. At this point we have mastered the technical logistics of an online conference. We got a lot of positive feedback from students, faculty, and guests. They commented on the design of the platform, the ease of presenting their work virtually, and the overall quality of the academic\/creative research,\u201d said Dr. Julye Bidmead<\/a>, Director of the Center for Undergraduate Excellence at Chapman University and Associate Professor of Religious Studies in Wilkinson College.<\/p>\n

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Pre-COVID Student Scholar Symposium.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Two Political Science projects that stood out to Dr. John Compton<\/a>, Associate Professor and Chair of Political Science were \u201cBreil Bonaguro’s research on the relationship between socioeconomic status and public opinion on abortion and Caitlin Guiao’s research on Asian American party identification and voting behavior. These are obviously timely topics, and both Breil and Caitlin demonstrated a real mastery of the secondary literature as well as current public opinion data.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Spring Student Scholar Symposium is CUE\u2019s biggest event of the year. This campus wide event is a celebration of the remarkable scholarship and creativity conducted by Chapman undergraduates, anticipated by students and faculty each year.<\/p>\n

Here is a list of Wilkinson College presenters.<\/p>\n

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