Read Up On Last Year's MYS as You Make Plans for MYS 2009

Nearly 500 Bridgewater State College students presented at last year's Midyear Symposium for First and Second Year Students. This was the third time the event was held, and it was the biggest showing yet of poster and oral presentations. Students from first and second year seminars, first year writing, and a host of other classes in various disciplines presented their work from the semester.

Visitors to the event could, if they wished, learn about regurgitation and reingestion in gorillas; the value of combined hand/voice combinations in dog agility training; the coverage of women’s sports in The Comment; a tour of Italy; character analysis in 19 Minutes, plot in Survivor, and thematic elements in While I was Gone; homelessness and its affects on children, adolescence, and veterans; thorough investigations of  alar, saccharine and nitrates; explorations of engineering feats involved in the Three Gorges Dam, Hong Kong International Airport, and our own Big Dig; the sustainability efforts of such major companies as General Electric and their efforts to publicize those efforts; Autism, free speech, racist rhetoric; all manner of drug dependency issues, The Sichuan Earthquake; Proxemics, Haptics, and nonverbal communication; eating disorders, economics, and traveling on the cheap; bringing the day to a close, a review of Brazilian music, food, and culture.
 

And that’s not even the half of it.
 

It is the sincere hope of the Office of Undergraduate Research that 10 December 2009 won’t only be the culmination of a class or a semester but instead will be the start of bigger and better things in the academic careers of all our presenters. The very successful day would not have been possible without the hard work and dedication of our faculty and their students who presented. See you all next year.

 

CLICK HERE to apply to MYS 2009

Click here for the MYS 2009 Flyer for Students.

Click here to see the 2008 MYS Photo Gallery.

FACULTY: Click here for more information on the MYS 2009.


 


 


 

Last Modified: October 30, 2009