UFV students will showcase their intellectual talents once again at the UFV Student Research Day on Wednesday, March 20.
Eleven student speakers will present micro lectures, starting at 11:30 a.m., in the Roadrunner lounge in Building A on the Abbotsford campus of University of the Fraser Valley (33844 King Rd.).
Each will have five minutes to summarize and explain their research process and results.
Then from 2 to 3:30 p.m., 28 student researchers will have posters outlining their research on display in Room B121.
Both events are free and open to the public.
Student micro-lecture speakers are:
• Kelly Hodgins, Geography – the effect of the seasonal agriculture workers program on Chilliwack agriculture;
• Priscilla Barr, Biograpy – surveys of juvenile hatchery and wild coho salmon;
• Mike Rastad, Psychology – the Impact of carbohydrate mouth-rinse sensing on perceptual-motor choice reaction time task in fasted/unfasted subjects;
• Ali Siemens, Media and Communication Studies – Google search: everything about you, issues in privacy and social media;
• Robyn Matthews, Psychology – reducing bias on the implicit associations task;
• Lais Maia, Biology: foraging behaviour in groups of birds;
• Paul Stephany, Geography: representing Indigenous narrative: mapping Blackfoot oral history using GIS;
• Nikki Dionne, Criminology: programming for children with incarcerated parents;
• Sol Sun, Psychology: criterion shifting in recognition memory;
• Jason Ho, Physics: the quantum field theory of charmonium hybrids; and
• Scott Bishop, Kinesiology: using heart-rate variability to index recovery from concussion.