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Monday, March 9, 2020
Volume 102 Issue 6
CU Research
and Scholarly Activities Day
Payton Williams
Mathematical Sciences major Yauheniya Shviadok presented research Managing Editor sponsored by Argyros. @YoureSoVanya Her research, which she presented under the title “Developments in the Semi-Local Convergence of Newton’s From 1 - 3 p.m. on Feb. 28, Cameron University’s School of Arts and Sciences Method,” has already been through High Impact Practices Committee hosted some very serious testing before being presented, which makes her presentation CU Research and Scholarly Activities particularly impressive, according to Day in the McMahon Centennial Argyros. Complex (MCC) Ballroom. “The presentation given by my student Students of various disciplines and was most impressive in the sense that backgrounds within the School of Arts whatever was on the poster is already and Sciences gathered in the MCC in a paper that was published,” Argyros Ballroom with posters showing their said. “So that carries more weight.” research, and students and faculty were Shviadok’s research has already led invited to ask questions, comment on and to her being accepted into a Graduate critique the work. program for a Ph.D in Applied The event was held in part to Mathematics at the University of give students preparing to present at Oklahoma Research Day on March 6 an Memphis in Memphis, Tennessee, and she is still waiting to hear from several opportunity to practice presenting their other graduate programs. research. Argyros said that events like this are Dr. Ioannis K. Argyros was one of important in a school like Cameron, and the sponsors for research presented by the Mathematical Sciences Department, He hopes to see it grow. “You have to take into account that we and he said he was impressed with the are a very small school,” Argyros said. presentations from the students. “But that does not mean that we do not “The students successfully answered have students that excel at what they are my questions,” Argyros said. “I went doing. This event proves it. I hope that around almost through every poster and next year, the number of posters will at asked the students questions, and they least double.” seemed to know what they were doing, Another sponsor for research at the which was very nice.”
event was professor of Communication, English and Foreign Languages Dr. William Carney. Carney was a sponsor for three of the research presentations at the event, one dealing with food insecurity in Oklahoma, another on the subject of Socialism in pre-World War I Oklahoma, and a third on a service learning project that involves students revising the guide for the Wichita Mountain Wildlife Refuge. Carney also said he was enthusiastic about the quality of research presented at the event. “I will tell you this, all the math posters, to me, are phenomenal,” Carney said. “What the math department is doing now in encouraging applied research, using math, is outstanding stuff.” Kimb Frey, a student of the Communication, English and Foreign Languages department, was one of the students presenting research at the event. Frey is one of the students involved in editing the Wichita Mountain Wildlife Refuge Trail Guide, and she said the enthusiasm from the audience surprised her. “The first hour or so, we couldn’t really leave,” Frey said. “There was a pretty constant rotation, and amazingly enough, I even managed to reel some
people in for my Hyphens and Dashes presentation.” Frey presented research titled “Of Dashes and Hyphens: the Mysterious Dash Forms Three,” sponsored by Dr. Yingqin Liu. Frey said that it was Dr. Liu who first inspired her to get involved with presenting research for this event and for the Oklahoma Research Day event in Weatherford, Oklahoma. “Dr. Liu is a big advocate for Oklahoma Research Day,” Frey said, “and always tries to get her students involved in it. It’s really her thing.” This was the first time Cameron University has held CU Research and Scholarly Activities Day, and both Dr. Argyros and Dr. Carney hope that the event will grow exponentially in upcoming years. Carney said that the work he saw presented at this event was on par with work he has seen at larger universities. “These are the kinds of poster presentations you would see at larger institutions,” Carney said. “It may be surprising here, but it really shouldn’t be. We’ve got some excellent students.” For more information on CU Research and Scholarly Activities Day and other upcoming research events, contact the Cameron University Office of Academic Affairs at 580-581-2250.
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