Quite a bit has happened this week! On Saturday, Erick and I participated in the Undergraduate Research Symposium where we each gave separate presentations on our work this semester. My research talk was titled "Exploring the Network Structure of Child Directed Speech" and was a high level overview of the project, its goals, and my initial results. Below is a PDF of my presentation slides as well as a picture my mom took during my presentation (Thanks mom!).
Also during this week, I found out that Professor Beckage and I were accepted into the Distributed Research Experience for Undergraduates (DREU) funded by the CRA-W. I will be getting in touch with Professor Beckage soon so we can discuss our plans for the summer. I still plan on working with Erick and Professor Brumberg even if I leave to work with Professor Beckage in Madison Wisconsin, and will be updating this blog in conjunction with Erick's over the summer. Hopefully, we will be able to write a joint paper to be published in a journal later this year.
Lastly, we also found out that Erick's and my poster application to the Tapia conference was accepted! So, we will both be traveling to Orlando, Florida this coming September to present our joint research project.
This summer is going to be jam-packed with research and I am so excited to get started! But, next week is finals week, which I will need to prepare for, Erick and I still need to write our final report, and the following weeks may be busy with planning and packing for my trip to Madison. So, it may be a while until my next post. Until then, a big thank you to the CRA-W for this amazing opportunity and to our professors Nicole Beckage and Jon Brumberg for all of their help and guidance through this year and the times to come. We will never forget it!
KU Undergraduate Research Symposium Presentation: https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/953dc3_5ae4fa4399204e3594ac469302968bc2.pdf