A talented & promising undergrad lab member & STAR Scholar, Carrie Gordon, presented a poster at the Drexel STAR Scholars Summer Showcase today. #drexel #undergraduateresearch #STARSchalar #undergraduates

https://symposium.foragerone.com/2023-star-showcase

https://toyooka-lab.academic.ws

https://drexel.edu/medicine/faculty/profiles/kazuhito-toyooka/

Drexel STAR Scholarship Summer Showcase is today, August 31, at 9 am at Bentley Hall at University City Campus. #drexel #undergraduateresearch #philadelphia #autismresearch

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kazuhito-toyooka-635a3018_star-scholars-summer-showcase-activity-7102878596502798336-apfx?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android

I'm excited to be back on Michigan State University's campus for my final year of undergrad. It is always fun catching up with and meeting new and returning SPARTIE Lab members!

#MichiganStateUniversity #UndergraduateResearch #AcademicChatter

The #Sprouts2024 webpage is up: http://kyleburke.info/sprouts/sprouts2024/ Our keynote speaker will be Michael Fisher from West Chester University of PA.

You can play around with writing a Gorgons player for our computer player tournament: http://kyleburke.info/sprouts/sprouts2024/sprouts2024ComputerTournament.php

We haven't yet picked a Saturday in April for the conference, but we're working on it. If you know any undergrads who will be working on anything related to combinatorial or mathematical games, please have them consider giving a talk! If you have a student who might be looking for an AI project, suggest to them to take part in the Gorgons player competition!

#SproutsConference #AI #UndergraduateResearch #CombinatorialGames

We have a game for next year's Sprouts! Gorgons, which is quite similar to Amazons. Each turn you choose one of your (non-stone) Gorgons to move, pick a direction a Chess Queen can move and then move it in that direction (or keep it still). Before your Gorgon moves, it uses its gaze to turn a space to stone. If there is another Gorgon in the direction it's chosen, it turns that one to stone. Otherwise it turns the last clear space in that direction to a stone block. (You can't choose a direction where there isn't any free space.) It's a normal play game, so you lose when you can't make a move.

Gorgons is playable here: http://kyleburke.info/DB/combGames/gorgons.html The basic AI is terrible (they needlessly turn their own pieces to stone a lot). I've been enjoying playing as just one gorgon against a team of many.

We don't have a date yet for #Sprouts2024 (it'll probably be a Saturday in April). There will be a human tournament and an AI tournament. I'll work on getting the webpages up with instructions to submit your own AI player.

#Sprouts2024 #SproutsConference #CombinatorialGames #Gorgons #UndergraduateResearch

So it turns out no one else is studying what I'm looking into. Well...2 papers since 1991.

My librarian laughed and said most people would be excited to find something like that on the first try.

I think it's great, but it did make me worry that I'm missing something important.

#AcademicLifeInTheSticks #undergraduateresearch

Welcome, undergraduate summer researchers! ☀️

We hosted orientation yeseterday to welcome 34 undergrads from across the country to the HCII for another exciting summer research program! Our visiting student researchers will be working with 18 #cmuhcii faculty, staff and students on 21 different research projects.

We're looking forward to a great summer of learning and research, seminars, discussions, and social events with you!

#CarnegieMellon #HumanComputerInteraction #UndergraduateResearch

#InverteFest
Yesterday at our #UndergraduateResearch Conference, I got to see 2 students with my own advisor talking about the first observation of the local #Astrangia coral NOT going into winter dormancy. It was so warm in the Long Island Sound/Narragansett Bay this winter that the polyps never went dormant. The students have been doing analysis of what the corals had been eating.

So many #ProudMentor moments today at @SUNYGeneseo #GREATDay2023

The #HannamLab had two poster presentations and an oral presentation on #bioacoustics & #soundscape ecology.

#UndergraduateResearch makes things happen around here!

photo credits: @megerringer

'Thank You' cards are my favorite thing ever. They sustain me. I'm so glad to have helped someone on their path. This card filled me up with warm fuzzies after a long day. 🥺💖 I've come to collect 'Thank You's-- one day I aspire to have a whole wall of them in my future office!

I'm so proud of this person!!!!

#Academia #AcademicChatter #AcademicMastodon #Neuro #Neuroscience #MedMastodon #MedicalEducation #UndergraduateResearch #Congratulations

Is there anyone out there who would be interested in developing Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences based on the genomics of non-model arthropods?

#ScienceEducation #UndergraduateResearch #Genomics #Insects

Kids are in bed. 4yo birthday celebrations are over (for today). Time to sip champagne and read about codon bias for tomorrow's lab meeting!

Ngl this stiff is FASCINATING!! Can't wait to hear what my students think

#ProfLife #PUI #UndergraduateResearch #AcademicParenting

Kids are in bed. 4yo birthday celebrations are over (for today). Time to sip champagne and read about codon bias for tomorrow's lab meeting!

Ngl this stiff is FASCINATING!! Can't wait to hear what my students think

#ProfLife #PUI #UndergraduateResearch #AcademicParenting

I had a really fun time yesterday presenting my independent study research project about virtual reality and privacy at Michigan State University's University Undergraduate Research and Arts Forum!

https://zschultz.com/research/vr-privacy.html

#UndergraduateResearch #VR #Privacy #VirtualReality

Update on #Sprouts2023, the #CombinatorialGames conference for #undergraduateresearch: We have 15 registered attendees and 4 scheduled speakers, with 1 or 2 more people who we expect to submit abstracts. http://kyleburke.info/sprouts/sprouts2023/

We still don't have any submissions for the AI Flag Coloring tournaments. We are extending the due date by an extra day: Thursday of next week. That will give us enough time to set up the tournament page. Also, by popular request, I have provided the FlagColoring javascript source code. It is at the bottom of the tournament page: http://kyleburke.info/sprouts/sprouts2023/flagColoringComputerTournament.php At this point, any player has a good chance to win! Submit something!

(At what point of not having any submissions am I allowed to write my own player for the tournament? Maybe by Monday?)

A reminder that SUNY Geneseo is hiring a #tenuretrack Asst Prof of #Biology in #plantscience #plantsci with interests in #sustainability and #global issues. Join our welcoming department that values #Diversity and #Inclusion and #UndergraduateResearch
We're a #PUI in western NY. Please share widely!

Details: jobs.geneseo.edu/postings/4254

#botany #Plant #vegetation #aquaticplants #MarshMadness #Forest #ForestEcology #nativeplants

#Sprouts2023 update: We are very excited to have info about our Keynote speaker on the site: http://kyleburke.info/sprouts/sprouts2023/ We also have abstracts for two of the contributed talks listed. Keep submitting abstracts and we'll keep reviewing them!

Are you an undergrad who likes to play a combinatorial or abstract game? Speaking here is a great way to get experience giving an academic talk!

Also, please remember that the AI players are due on Wednesday, March 29.

#CombinatorialGames #undergraduateresearch

Just discovered #MarshMadness is a thing

Any #PlantSci folks studying marsh #vegetation interested in a #TenureTrack Biology Prof #PlantSciJobs @SUNYGeneseo in Western New York?

We'd love you to connect marsh #plant studies to #sustainability & #global issues.

We value #Diversity and #Inclusion and #UndergradResearch #UndergraduateResearch

Find more details & apply here:
jobs.geneseo.edu/postings/4254

@LotusLofgren #mycology #undergraduateresearch #funding #fungi #undergrad #travel #MycologicalSocietyOfAmerica #MSA

From one of my students participating in an accepted student day at their top choice PhD program: “Yea, this is right for me. We're going through talks and stuff and everything is fun and exciting.”

#mentoring #undergraduateresearch #pui #gradschool #phd