Hamilton College students who spent the summer doing research will present their projects in a poster session to be held in the Fillius Events Barn on Friday, October 6, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. In addition to the poster presentations, the students are prepared to talk about their research. This event is free and open to the public.Representing every science discipline, the students spent 10 weeks doing research under the guidance of faculty mentors. Their topics include brain activity; self esteem; sense of touch; medicine from the sea; egg-laying preferences of butterflies; creating glass out of inorganic materials; pregnancy and lowered breast cancer risk; polarized gas, which will contribute to research on time reversal and human lung ventilation; and an artificial intelligence program.
David Gapp, professor of biology, who coordinates the program says, "These students and their faculty mentors highlight the vigorous level of student faculty research activity that is ongoing at Hamilton. The summer of 2000 saw a record number of participants in our summer research program with over 50 undergraduates and several area high school students engaged in projects across the science disciplines."
