(Left to right): Community health students Alyssa Morris, Eric Lorek, and Beverly Allen take questions from the audience after their presentation on an ecological analysis of food environments in the United States.

(Left to right): Community health student Kevin Fritz talks about the project "Mapping the way to better healthcare" while research colleagues Nina Bryan and Stephanie Shaw, also in community health, and Faiza Yasin of molecular and cellular biology look on.

Kinesiology student Stephanie Chirillo discussed her research on the relationship between protein-energy malnutrition and physical function, bone health, and quality of life among dialysis patients. Stephanie described the Undergraduate Research Symposium as a "great learning experience." "An oral presentation on wordy, scientific material was completely new to me," she said. "The research symposium forced me to simplify the content and to make it comprehensible to a diverse audience, which was a challenge I overcame."

Adetutu Ogundare, a senior in the Department of Speech and Hearing Science, presented a poster on her research about how multicultural influences and perceptions of stuttering influence speech-language therapy.

Speech and hearing science student Anne Capron poses with her mentor, Dr. Cynthia Johnson, near her research poster on the impact of home literacy environments and family support on childhood writing disorders.