Buffalo State To Host SUNY Undergraduate Research Conference On April 23

Buffalo NY

15 April, 2022

8:55 PM

Description

Press release from Buffalo State College: April 15, 2022 Buffalo State College's Science and Mathematics Complex will be teeming with research from students across the State University of New York (SUNY) on Saturday, April 23, when the campus hosts the 2022 SUNY Undergraduate Research Conference (SURC) for the first time. Now in its eighth year, the multidisciplinary daylong event brings together undergraduate students and faculty mentors from SUNY schools for sessions devoted to student presentations, along with the SUNY Graduate School and Career Fair and professional development workshops for students and faculty. Students will display their research posters in SAMC's first-floor atrium and deliver oral presentations in the adjacent classrooms beginning at 9:30 a.m. and running until 4:00 p.m. Buffalo State President Katherine Conway-Turner will present opening remarks and Gerard Puccio, professor and chair of the Center for Applied Imagination, will deliver the lunchtime keynote address, "Creative Thinking: Introduction of a Twenty-first Century Success Skill." And special guest Keith Landa, president of the University Faculty Senate, will be in attendance. SURC will serve in place of Buffalo State's 24th annual Student Research and Creativity Conference (SRCC). "What's exciting this year is that students have an expanded opportunity to shine," said Scott Goodman, Buffalo State professor of chemistry and director of undergraduate research who is serving as the conference's co-coordinator. "They get to present their research findings to peers and faculty from other esteemed schools within SUNY, in addition to the ones at Buffalo State. For some students, their presentations represent two to three years of research." About 360 students from across 28 SUNY colleges and universities are expected to attend — from as close as the University at Buffalo to as far away as Stony Brook University. Of that total number, 185 are Buffalo State students who conducted research in the following academic areas: Arts; Business, Fashion and Textile Technology, and Hospitality and Tourism; Communication and Humanities; Computer Information Systems and Engineering Technology; Education; Health and Social Work; Mathematics; Physical Geography and Sciences; and Psychology and Social Sciences. "SRCC's traditional disciplinary categories are recognized at SURC for the purpose of the oral presentation sessions, which are grouped in related disciplines with a Buffalo State faculty moderator in that area," explained Carolyn Guzski, associate professor of music who serves as the Buffalo State representative to SURC and is co-coordinating this year's conference. "The poster sessions, however, will be mixed-discipline, due to the much higher participation numbers from across SUNY." This press release was produced by Buffalo State College. The views expressed here are the author's own.