Research Week aims at ‘Challenging the Known’

The University of the Incarnate Word’s 16th annual Research Week Tuesday, April 11, through Friday, April 14, will feature posters, podium presentations, forums, a retreat, and the Moody Professor Lectures.

“Challenging the Known” is the theme for the week that begins Tuesday morning with a Service Learning and Engaged Scholarship Showcase. The showcase will feature student posters on display in the

SEC Mezzanine 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday while presentations go on both days 9 a.m.-noon in SEC 2040.

Poster presentations from across the university will be presented Tuesday as well in three sessions at SEC Ballroom: noon-1:15, 1:30-2:45, and 3-4:15. The presentations will be judged. Awards – cosponsored by UIW’s Office of Research and Graduate Studies and the San Antonio chapter of the

Fulbright Association-San Antonio Chapter -- will be presented 4:30-5:30.

Podium presentations are scheduled 8:50 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Wednesday in J.E. and L.E. Mabee Library Auditorium and 10:50 a.m.-1:50 p.m. in the Special Collections Room on the library’s second floor.

The day continues at 5 with a reception before the Moody presentations. Both lectures in the library auditorium will be followed by a 15-minute, question-and-answer session.

Dr. Wallis Sanborn III, an English professor at Our Lady of the Lake University, will give the first lecture – “The Paradox of Greatness: Language, the Natural World, Genocide, and the Limited Role of Women in the Fiction of Cormac McCarthy” – at 5:45. At OLLU, he is chair of the JUMP TO PAGE 2 “RESEARCH”