Schedule

UMA President Jenifer Cushman welcomes everyone to the annual Student Research Conference.

Honors Program students in Dr. Robert Kellerman's HON 308: Interdisciplinary Honors Seminar present their research projects.

A session devoted to research including chronic pain and sleep.

A roundtable of projects from UMA's Interdisciplinary Studies major.

A session devoted to research including adolescent and maternal care.

This panel by the student researchers “Team CHASM” presents the findings of a climate change communications research project. We discuss the difficulty of communicating complex scientific uncertainties and the growing field of narrative cognition research and explore the science behind whether narrative communication improves learning and understanding of data-driven uncertainty over technical description. Research methods included measurements of uncertain climate change data presented in either a narrative or technical format in an empirical survey. Hypotheses were that participants would: 1) better understand, 2) have a stronger emotional response; 3) have a stronger likelihood of belief or behavior change; and that data-uncertainty 4) will be better understood by participants, 5) without undermining participant confidence in the uncertain data when using narrative versus technical format. There will be a discussion of the statistical analysis employed in the search for meaningful relationships in respondents’ answers, including our survey results.

A session devoted to both visual culture and INT cultural studies.

Learn more about UMA's new literary and art journal, begun by dedicated students and Dr. Noel Tague!

A session devoted to research on complementary and alternative health therapies.

Presentations from UMA's art history courses taught by art historian and Danforth Gallery director Dr. Amy Rahn.

A session devoted to research including tobacco cessation and alternative neurodegenerative therapies.

Students in UMA's wide array of literature courses present their research.

A session devoted to research including aromatherapy and high blood pressure treatment.