阿曼达·皮尔斯 had already launched her professional career at EcoSafe Environmental Services in the Crossroads District after finishing her degree requirements at the end of July. So, 她8月份回学校做什么, standing in front of a poster in Miller Nichols Library and Learning Center?
活出她的激情.
海报描述了她对浮萍的研究, an innocuous-looking but environmentally powerful plant. She earned her final credits for her degree in earth and environmental science researching the ability of duckweed to do double duty sequestering carbon dioxide while removing contaminants in waterways. 她有功劳, 学位和职业生涯, but she came back to present and discuss her findings at the annual UMKC SUROP Poster Symposium.
“我对我的研究充满热情，”她解释说. “At first, I wasn’t really even doing (the research) for school. 我投入了我的时间和精力, 我为此感到骄傲, and I wanted to share this cool information with people.”
That’s the secret of SUROP (Summer Undergraduate 研究 Opportunity), one of several UMKC programs that encourage undergrads to dive deep into their studies by funding research expenses for approved projects. The programs create a bridge linking passion to tangible performance.
SUROP助学金为学生提供2美元,000美元的学费补助，最高可达1美元,250 in reimbursable research expenses for projects undertaken during the summer. The SUROP Poster Symposium celebrates the work that undergraduate researchers, scholars and artists and their faculty mentors have accomplished during the summer months.
关于本科生研究机会的信息, 资助及申请截止日期可于 本科生研究与创新奖学金 页面.
Pierce was one of 19 students who received funding for summer research projects this year, on topics ranging from the urban heat island effect in Kansas City, 与儿童肥胖相关的健康政策, to using 3-D printing to create structures that mimic living tissue.
另一位是劳拉·穆尼奥斯-巴罗哈, who also competes as a scholarship athlete on the UMKC women’s tennis team. She tested techniques for improving the efficiency and performance of solar energy panels.
Current panels convert only about 20 percent of the solar radiation they receive into electricity, 剩下的转化为热量, 是什么限制了面板的性能. Munoz-Baroja investigated coatings that can convert more of the light entering the panel into wavelengths that produce electricity instead of heat. 通过使用外部涂层, the enhancement can be applied to existing panels without expensive and time-consuming internal design changes. She tested coating materials that are durable enough to last as long as the panels, 即使在暴露的室外条件下.
山姆Sisk also focused his research on keeping things cool, 但他的媒介是半导体计算机芯片. 温度在80摄氏度以上., 芯片的速度和准确性显著下降, so cooling has always been a key element of the design of computerized equipment. Cooling systems integrated into chips is the modern solution, but those systems create less than ideal interaction between the chip and the coolant. 山姆的解决办法是:做小. He designed a miniaturized system for injecting liquid coolant directly onto the surface of individual chips, generating more direct contact with the coolant while requiring minimal energy to pump the liquid.
2022年SUROP主持人
将田、化学
Chirality-Driven Self-Assembly: In Situ Preparation of Structurally Distinct Janus
树枝状分子
教师导师:Shin Moteki
凯特Larberg，地球与环境科学
Making the Kansas City Urban Heat Island Effect Approachable
导师:孙凤鹏
Kaitie巴特勒，机械工程，荣誉课程
Fabrication of Color-Changing Materials Using Liquid-in-Liquid 3 d打印技术 Methods
导师:Zahra Niroobakhsh
劳拉Munoz-Baroja，能量，物质和系统
Performance Enhancement of PV/T Systems Integrated with Nanofluids
导师:Sarvenaz Sobhansarbandi
基督教见鬼，生物学，荣誉课程
A Self-Directed Mutagenesis Approach for Examining the Drosophila Tribbles
Recognition Degron in the C/EBP Transcription Factor Slbo
教师导师:Leonard Dobens
Jay Vanderslice、物理
Creating Continuous and Universal Paths for Crystal Structures
教师导师:Paul Rulis
夏洛特鲁尼，地球与环境科学
Assessment of Urban Prairie and Phytoremediation Plants as a Means to Regenerate
城市土壤
教师导师:卡罗琳·戴维斯
阿曼达·皮尔斯，地球与环境科学
Decontamination and Carbon Sequestration of Missouri Freshwater by Duckweed
教师导师:Alison Graettinger
MaAh姬、英语/历史
密苏里州200周年纪念计划:近期移民
教师导师:Diane Mutti Burke
朱迪Vun、护理
A Secondary Data Analysis of the Child Obesity and Health Messaging Preferences
密苏里州政策制定者(CHAMP)研究
教师导师:Anita Skarbe
山姆Sisk、机械工程
In-Chip Cooling Technology within Semiconductor Switches
导师:Sarvenaz Sobhansarbandi
Saivagmita Kantheti， 6年文学学士/医学博士
A Text Mining Approach to Determine Correlations between the Spanish Flu and
新型冠状病毒肺炎
教师导师:Billie Anderson博士.D.
布里顿李约瑟、生物/化学
Probing Biological Redox Chemistry with Microelectrodes
教师导师:Mohammad Rafiee
了纳尔逊、机械工程
小型步枪底火特性
教师导师:特拉维斯菲尔兹
印度费尔南德斯、生物学
教育解剖模型的创造与修复
导师:瑞秋·艾伦
迈克尔Englert、机械工程
Development of a Highly Thermal Conductive Nanofluid for the Application in Solar
热技术
导师:Sarvenaz Sobhansarbandi
汉娜布里格斯、生物学
Chirality-Driven Self-Assembly: Application toward Renewable/Exchangeable
Resin-Immobilized催化剂
教师导师:Shin Moteki
路加福音Romang，地球与环境科学
Depositional Setting, Provenance, and Tectonic Implications of the Carmen Formation
在圣马科斯岛，下加利福尼亚南部，msamicxico
教师导师:蒂娜·涅米
奥斯汀卡斯，机械工程，荣誉课程
Creating Soft, Gel-Like Tubes for Biomimicking Tubular Tissues Using Liquid-in-Liquid
3 d打印技术
导师:Zahra Niroobakhsh