1. If you have had your poster printed by CRL it should be available throughout the rest of the day in HO 202 - PLEASE COME BY
AND PICK IT UP – RETREIVING IT TOMORROW MAY NOT BE
POSSIBLE.
2. Remember you should dress in business attire tomorrow.
3. CRL WEB PAGE http://crl.iupui.edu/ has poster presentation schedule – hope to have a file up later today that is alphabetical and easier to search a. Registration is 11:00-12:00 First Poster Session starts at 12:00 ends at 1:25; second session starts at 1:35 and runs until 3:00.
b. You should plan on standing by your poster during your 90 minute session (EAT
LUNCH BEFORE YOU COME) c. You should plan on viewing other students’ posters during the session you are not assigned.
d. We will provide name tags; poster pins; foam core and easel. Bottled water and a cookie e. You bring poster and handouts if you wish (don’t bring bulky items like backpacks as we have no place to store them.
4. Check with your program leaders about completing requirements for your summer program; a. UROP students expected to have summary paper of 5-7 pages to me by no later than Monday July 27 at 5:00 p.m.
b. If you are in the RISE course good idea to write to me and remind me.
5. QUESTIONS?

July 22, 2015
Who Do You Want To Be?

Outline
• Review the value of undergraduate mentored research and creative activity
• Value to our institution and education in general
• Value to you
• Some Ways to Leverage Your Research Experience
• The Importance of Following Your Passion
• Anthropological Perspective on Research as a Human Trait (my passion)
• Your Future is Our Future

Reprise: “What is Undergraduate Research?”
• “An inquiry or investigation conducted by an undergraduate student that makes an original, intellectual, or creative contribution to the discipline..
.”(from the Council on Undergraduate Research) http://www.cur.org/

What Do You Think?
• Take five minutes to discuss the following questions with your neighbor:
• By this definition did you make an original contribution? What was it?
• What generalizable lessons/skills did you take away form your summer experience?

What Should Undergraduate Research Do for
US?
• Educational benefits include:
• Engages and empowers students in hands-on learning
• Enhances the student learning experience through mentoring relationships with faculty
• Increases retention in the STEM disciplines & other fields
• Provides effective career preparation & promotes interest in graduate education
• Develops critical thinking, creativity, problem solving, self confidence, and intellectual independence
• Promotes an innovation-oriented culture http://oregonstate.edu/students/research/why-research

What Should Undergraduate Research Do for
You?
• Academic benefits include:
• Working closely with a faculty mentor
• Learning about issues, methods, and leaders in students' chosen fields
• Applying concepts learned in coursework to "real life" situations
• Sharpening problem-solving skills
• Learning to read primary literature http://oregonstate.edu/students/research/why-research

What Should Undergraduate Research Do for
You?
• Professional benefits include:
• Exploring and preparing for future careers
• Developing marketable skills
• Enhancing professional communication skills
• Collaborating with others and working effectively as part of a team http://oregonstate.edu/students/research/why-research

What Should Undergraduate Research Do for
You?
• Personal benefits include:
• Growing as a critical, analytical, and independent thinker
• Meeting challenges and demonstrating the ability to complete a project
• Discovering personal interests
• Developing internal standards of excellence http://oregonstate.edu/students/research/why-research

Research on Undergraduate Research
Supports These Points:
Department of Sociology, Social Work & Anthropology, Utah State University,
• Graduates report that they use their research skills, more than any other sociological skills, in their future jobs! http://sociology.usu.edu/urbenefits.aspx
• Analytical Skills
• Teamwork
• Time Management
• Leadership
• Writing Skills
• Troubleshooting
• Understanding of Ethics
• Communication
• Self-Confidence

The American Association of Colleges and Universities -Peer Review: Spring 2010, Vol.
12, No. 2 Undergraduate Research as a High-Impact Student Experience”
By David Lopatto, professor of psychology, Grinnell College
“Undergraduate researchers learn tolerance for obstacles faced in the research process, how knowledge is constructed, independence, increased self-confidence, and a readiness for more demanding research. These benefits are an advantage in any career path.” http://www.aacu.org/peerreview/pr-sp10/pr-sp10_Lopatto.cfm

• http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_iss ues/articles/2007_07_06/caredit.a0700095
Growing a new generation of scholars and researchers
• "my notions of what I wanted to do were shaped by that first summer doing research."

Visioning Experience
• Spend a few minutes addressing the following “thought experiment” and then share answers with your neighbor
• Where (locale) will you be working in the year
2025 and what will you be doing
• How will you know if you are happy?

How Do I Leverage This Experience?
• Stay in Touch With Your Mentor
• Look for Other UGR or Active Learning Opportunities
• Look to Present Your Research at Regional and/or National Meetings
• Push to Publish
• Incorporate Your Experience on Your Resume/Portfolio
• Seek Research and RISE Notations on Your Transcript
• Try to Follow Your Passion
• Value the Privilege You earn

Stay in Touch With Your Mentor
(More Research ON Undergraduate Research)
Osborne and Karukstis (2009) http://www.missouriwestern.edu/appliedlearning/documents/Chapter4-Final-BenefitsofUGROsborn.pdf
• interactions with faculty mentors significantly affect an individual student’s cognitive and behavioral development .
• directly impact student satisfaction and learning (Astin,
1993).
• participation in undergraduate research with a faculty mentor is a “high impact” learning experience. (Lipka, 2007)
• Additional studies verify that the collegial and collaborative partnership of undergraduate students and faculty members contributes significantly to the personal and professional gains reported by students (Seymour, 2004; Hunter, 2006).
• Mentors write the best letters of recommendation
• Mentors are (often) for life

Look for Other UGR or Active Learning
Opportunities
• http://crl.iupui.edu/resources/a dditional-opportunities.asp
• http://www.cur.org/resources/for
_students/
• http://search.nsf.gov/search?access=p&output=x ml_no_dtd&sort=date%3AD%3AL%3Ad1&ie=UTF
-8&btnG=Google+Search&client=NSF&oe=UTF-
8&proxystylesheet=NSF2&site=NSF&q=REU

Present at Regional and/or National Meetings
• Why should I present my findings? http://curca.buffalo.edu/students/presenting.php
• Presenting your research gives you an important opportunity to share your findings with other undergraduates and faculty members.
• Conference presentations are an important part of professional development, and they offer the chance to receive valuable feedback on your work.
• They provide you with public speaking experience and help you deepen your own understanding of your research as you explain your project and respond to questions.
• Conferences are also wonderful places to network with your peers and professionals in your field.
• Finally, you will gain valuable experience to highlight on a resume or graduate school application.
• Where can you present your research?
• http://scholarworks.iu.edu/conferences/index.php/iuurc/iuurc20/index
• http://crl.iupui.edu/
• http://www.cur.org/ncur_2016/

Incorporate Your Experience on Your
Resume/Portfolio
• Note the specific and general skills learned
• Link to products where possible
• Modify for audience
• *Carine Olinde (CTSI Scholar)
• *Phillip Witcher (MURI Scholar)

Reasons to Publish
• It is how knowledge is shared, vetted, and accumulated
• It is how YOU get recognized as an authority
• It is the “gold standard” for academic promotion and tenure
• It is the pre-requisite of successful grant funding
• It is a way to connect with other potential collaborators.

Publishing Cultures
• Every discipline has it’s own expectations and standards – you will need to learn these before moving forward
• Who are co-authors and how they are listed
• Medicine vs History
• Format of publication, use of graphics etc.
• The literature you read for your own research is generally a good guide
• Mentor is always a good resource

Journals to Consider
• http://commons.pacificu.edu/ijurca/
• http://www.cur.org/resources/students/undergraduate_journals/
• http://iujur.indiana.edu/
• Discipline specific Journals
• http://www.alcoholjournal.org/

Seek Transcript Notation
• http://crl.iupui.edu/assets/documents/TranscriptNotation.pdf
• http://www.registrar.iupui.edu/transcript/tran-experiential.html

The Importance of Following Your Passion: Some
General Reflections on Achieving a Meaningful
Career
• Personal Experiences Based on a 35 year career
• Anthropological Perspective and Perspective from working to promote student success

"It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it" (Bronowski, 1975).

Zora Neale Hurston – 1891-1860 – Novelist, folklorist, anthropologist Research?
• “ ”Their Eyes Were
Watching God ” esearch is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.”
• Broadly speaking then
“ Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose
” Zora Neale Hurston –Writer, poet, folklorist, anthropologist

Do Research to Follow
Your Passion the
Example of Dr. Hazel
Barton
 http://www.ca
vescience.com

Ionizing radiation causes
DNA deMethylation in mouse brain
Darryl S. Watkins, Marc S.
Mendonca 4 , Amy Lossie 2 , and
(Feng C. Zhou 1, 3,5) . http://science.iupui.edu/sciencestory/neuroscienc e-student-inspires-iupui-research

Follow Your Passion
• http://iloveresearch.blogspot.com/2005/08/so-why-do-i-loveresearch.html
• “It's both a challenge and a thrill. Nothing feels better than going searching for a fact, digging through tons of material then finding it. I can lose myself for hours in a library or archives. Really, I'm not kidding.
The time just flies by and only when my stomach growls and the sun begins its final daily descent do I clue to the fact it's time to go home.”

“Creative Problem Solving” through transmissible culture is a Basic Human Trait http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.windows2universe.org/earth/polar/images

Understanding the Evolutionary Time-scale http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/msese/earthsysflr/time.html

Linear views of human evolution http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0932663.
html http://holykaw.alltop.com/5-ways-ourstone-age-bods-are-bad-for-modern-living

Human Evolutionary “Bush”

Humans and Their Tools http://anthro.palomar.edu/homo2/mod_homo
_3.htm

Homo habilis and the first technological revolution

The Earliest Stone Tools:
Were associated with Homo habilis, a creature with a markedly
Increased brain to body size.
The tool tradition is called Olduwan

The cut marks on this
Bone fragment from
A Homo habilis or
Homo erectus site are on top of the tooth marks of
Some carnivore
Research Question: How do we take a carcass from a
Lion?

Nearly 2 million years ago
A “new” species,
Homo erectus was well
Established in Africa: These
Populations appear to have
Been well adapted to tropical
Environments judging by
Their body-build. They also
Show markedly larger brains
Than predecessors, and produce a new “advanced”
Tool technology based
On “hand axes: : the
Achuelian:
Research Question: How do we survive in varied environments?

“What does it mean to be human: Dependence on Technology and Creative Problem Solving?”
• Homo erectus ( 1 million BP) spread over much of the world use a stone technology http://www.geocities.com/palaeoanthropology/Herectus.html

“What does it mean to be human: A Symbolic Life?”
“How do we survive in an Ice Age environment”?
• Neanderthals (75,000 BP) buried their dead.
• Seemed to care for injured and elderly
• Made music http://www.mythinglinks.org/Shanidar_IV~richd~sleep.gif

Homo sapiens – we are only recently arrived: (100,000-
60,000 BP) How do we survive massive climate change?
• Homo sapiens, our species appeared fairly recently and did so on the basis of an expanded technology, artistic and symbolic expression
• We were creatively solving problems created by the great climate changes of the ice age.

AMH Tool Kits
Human Evolution Coloring Book

AMH Diaspora

Population Growth and Cultural Change

Homo sapiens:
• Modern Humans Have More Technology and Greater Range of Cultural Expression than previous species
• More dependent on creative problem solving than ever

Humans are Unique in Possessing Language
• Language is the cornerstone of all human problem solving.
• The Oxford Dictionaries http://oxforddictionaries.com
list over
170,000 unique words
• There are 40,000 words the Oxford lists as “obsolete) thus, language is always changing
• Indeed nearly half of the words in the dictionary are nouns (names of things) and only a seventh (21,000) are verbs.
• Note that 170,000 words can be combined into a nearly infinite number of

Language allows for the accumulation of human experience
129,864,880 Books
Oral traditions
( ~ 650 aesop fables)
Infinite sentences
250,000 words
300-600
“phonemes”

Information Growth is Exponential
• The world's technological capacity to store information grew from
• 2.6 (optimally compressed) exabytes in 1986 to 15.8 in 1993,
• over 54.5 in 2000, and to
• 295 (optimally compressed) exabytes in 2007.
• “An1 EB = 1,000,000,000,000,000,000
• In comparison to human language it has been claimed that "all words ever spoken by human beings" could be stored in approximately 5 exabytes of data

Futurists Envision Augmented Human
Intelligence in Your Lifetimes
• “Kurzweil predicts that by midcentury people will augment their minds and bodies with genetic alterations, nanotechnology, and artificial intelligence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity

Futurists Envision Augmented Human
Intelligence in Your Lifetimes
• But Kurzweil also predicts that machine intelligence will be infinitely more powerful than all human intelligence combined.
• This will represent a transformative event bigger than anything since the first use of tools by humans.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity

Futurists Envision Augmented Human
Intelligence in Your Lifetimes
• The technological singularity is the theoretical emergence of superintelligence through technological means.
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• Since the capabilities of such intelligence would be difficult for an unaided human mind to comprehend, the technological singularity is seen as an occurrence beyond which events cannot be predicted.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity

Our Power to Solve Problems is Improving
• E.O. Wilson, the Noble Prize winning biologist predicts a “Consilience” of old disciplines into new more meaningful disciplines as powerful collaborations develop between biological science, social sciences and humanities.
• Great innovation is currently occurring in
cross-disciplinary research
• Your generation will have exceptional opportunities and tools to save the world.

Think of the Challenges!
• Ending Poverty
• Dealing with Climate Change and Conservation
• Curing Cancer
• Ending HIV AIDS
• Finding intelligent life elsewhere in the Universe
• Finding a sustainable energy source
• Ending human violence

Thank You!
• Thank the CRL staff – especially your program leaders for organizing and managing an eventful summer
• Special thanks to the mentors who have provided our students with the many unique opportunities that we will highlight during our upcoming poster event
• Thanks to each of you for spending your summer engaged in “poking and prying with a purpose.”
• Remember to stay in touch with CRL