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Rice Undergraduate Research Symposium 
APRIL 12, 2013  
TUDOR FIELDHOUSE  

The annual Rice Undergraduate Research Symposium enables Rice undergraduate students in all disciplines to share their research and design projects with the broader Rice and Houston community. 
 
 
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Begun in 2002, RURS is a one-day, campus-wide showcase of the cutting-edge research accomplishments of Rice undergraduates. The event features a poster presentations, oral presentations, and cash prizes determined by faculty and graduate student judges. Last year 250 students representing all schools participated. The RURS Steering Committee seeks greater participation this year and is excited to host this year’s symposium in Tudor Fieldhouse!\ 

The Committee encourages all students who are participating in independent or group research to take advantage of the opportunity to gain conference experience. Since this will be the first conference for many students, RURS holds workshops during the spring semester on abstract writing, poster design, and oral presentations.

Congratulations 2013 Winners!  

 

More than 250 undergraduate students from across the disciplines competed for monetary prizes in the annual Rice Undergraduate Research Symposium held last Friday at Tudor Fieldhouse. Judges from Rice University, Apple, Baylor College of Medicine, Helsinn Therapeutics, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Memorial Hermann, Texas Voice Center, and the University of Texas Health Science Center awarded students in the following categories:

George R. Brown School of Engineering Award for Best Group Engineering Project: Andrew Badachhape, Emily Eggert, Salma Ayoub, and Laureen Luo

George R. Brown School of Engineering Award for Top Individual Projects: 1. Yu-Yi Lee 2. Andria Remirez 3. Ravi Sheth

School of Humanities Awards for Top Three Projects: 1. Mariel Rodriguez 2. Micha Zheng 3.Maggie Sulc

School of Social Sciences Awards for Top Three Projects: Glory Nwaugbala, Ira Shrivastava, JB Makhani, Kanwal Hooda, Trent Navran, and Katherine Cai; Benjamin Chou; Mark Plitt

Wiess School of Natural Sciences Awards for Top Three Projects: 1. Lyahn Hwang 2. (Tie) Celester Riepe and Kevin Li

Center for Multimedia Communications Team Award: Nathan Lo, Rahul Rekhi, Navlekar Abhijit, Eric Palmgren, and Fabio Ussher 

Center for Multimedia Communications Individual Award: Blaine Rister 

Center for the Study of Languages Prize: Shirin Lakhani

Center for the Study of the Environment and Society Prize: Shayak Sengupta

Chao Center for Asian Studies Prize: Monica Matsumoto

Humanities Research Center Award: Jarvis Sam

Institute for Biosciences and Bioengineering Award: Yu-Yi Lee 

Ken Kennedy Institute Awards: 1. Blaine Rister 2. Andria Remirez 3. Jazz Silva

Rice 360 Global Health Technologies Award: Nathan Lo, Rahul Rekhi, Navlekar Abhijit, Eric Palmgren, and Fabio Ussher 

Rice Space Institute Award: Anna Wright

Smalley Institute for Nanotechnology Award: Eric Lange and Adrian Yao

The annual public event is put on by a student committee in conjunction with the Office of Fellowships and Undergraduate Research.

 


For a look at the complete abstract book, click here. 

 

 
 
If you are a current undergraduate interested in being on the RURS student planning committee, please email rurs@rice.edu.      
To reach faculty sponsor Dr. Caroline Quenemoen, email scholars@rice.edu