Update, April 19: The in-person sessions of the symposium will be in C-225.
The Spring 2022 Student Research and Creative Works Symposium, the University of Hawaiʻi–West Oʻahu’s popular semesterly event, will take place 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Tuesday, April 19 — and for the first time it will be held in a hybrid format. The in-person sessions will be 9 a.m. to noon in C-225 and the virtual sessions will be 12:30 to 5 p.m. via Zoom.
This is the 11th symposium since its inaugural event in 2016. The past four symposiums, since Spring 2020, have been all-virtual events as a result of the pandemic. The Fall 2021 symposium saw 259 participants and welcomed 264 attendees.
“We can’t wait to see what Spring 2022 will bring,” said Dr. Camonia Graham-Tutt, symposium organizer and associate professor of Community Health at UH West Oʻahu.
The symposium’s primary aim is to provide an opportunity for dynamic student research learning experiences to be showcased on a variety of topics. The ultimate goal of this campus-wide event is to increase the number of undergraduate UH West Oʻahu students with engaged scholarship and research experience.
“Over the course of the symposium, we have seen exponential growth in the number of students who are excited about presenting their research,” Graham-Tutt said. “This growth also includes those who quite simply want to be in an environment where engaged research and scholarship are happening.”
Graham-Tutt continued, “We have incredible instructors and faculty who are well versed in creating spaces to educate and support our students in the area of research. As a result, each semester students share how rewarding it feels to both present and see their peers present their research ideas during the symposium. These are only a few of the many reasons interest in research among our students continues to grow in the symposium and across our campus.”
All UH West Oʻahu students, faculty, and staff, and the general public, are welcome to attend. To learn more about the Spring 2022 Student Research and Creative Works Symposium, visit the Research Symposium website or email camonia@hawaii.edu. To attend the event, register at http://go.hawaii.edu/o7V.
Sessions throughout the symposium include the following:
IN-PERSON POSTER AND ORAL SESSIONS
9 a.m. to noon
Course: PSY 212 Survey of Research Methods
Area: Psychology
Instructor: Dr. Katherine Aumer
Presentation Type: Poster
Description: PSY 212 will be presenting their proposals and research projects on various psychology topics from mental health stigma to the impact of video games and cognitive development. In PSY 212, students go through online exercises to develop research skills and an understanding of research methods and ethics. Students develop a research proposal project that provides them with an opportunity to investigate a topic in psychology and design and report on a research study using concepts and methods gained from this course.
Course: PUBA 310 Research Methods in the Public Sector
Area: Public Administration
Instructor: Dr. Camonia Graham-Tutt
Presentation Type: Poster
Description: Examines various research methods as applied to different functional areas in the public sector including health care, human services, and others. Topics include field studies, experiments, content analysis, and surveys.
Course: APSC 486P Senior Project (BAS-HP Senior Project)
Area: Applied Science
Instructor: Dr. Rebecca Romine
Presentation Type: Oral
Description: To celebrate senior projects, to provide students an additional formal speaking opportunity, and to fulfill program expectations, the Mathemetics, Natural and Health Sciences (MNHS) department requires students to present the senior project orally and publicly. Other UH West Oʻahu students are invited to attend these presentations. The session will provide an opportunity for students graduating with a Bachelor of Applied Science, Health Professions to present library or original research that, for some students, has been conducted for more than eight months.
Course(s): ASPC 486 Senior Project Capstone / CYBER 486
Area: Cybersecurity / Information Security & Assurance / Information Technology
Instructor: Dr. J. Burrell
Presentation Type: Poster (virtual morning session 9 to 10:30 a.m.)
Description: This course is a senior capstone that provides students with the opportunity to complete original research or project in their designated field of study with the guidance of an applied science faculty advisor. Students will share the results of their research or projects in information technology and information security and assurance with symposium attendees.
VIRTUAL SESSIONS
12:30 to 2 p.m.
Course: ISA 480C Topics in Information Security and Assurance: Communications
Area: Cybersecurity / Information Security & Assurance / Information Technology
Instructor: Dr. J. Burrell
Presentation Type: Poster
Description: This course provides an introduction to the design of mobile and wireless communications systems with an emphasis on communications security. Students will be required to complete a research paper or project that demonstrates a comprehensive understanding of a topic related to mobile and wireless communication security.
Research Activity: UH West Oʻahu Cyber Security Research Laboratory
Area: Cyber Security Analyst Interns
Instructor: Dr. J. Burrell, Director
Presentation Type: Poster
Description: The UH West Oʻahu Cyber Security Research Laboratory is a Department of Defense Cyber Scholarship Program grant funded initiative established to provide students with unique opportunities that combine cyber security education with applied skills to promote the exploration and development of advanced knowledge and capabilities in an academic research environment.
Course: PHYL 142 Human Anatomy and Physiology Lab II
Area: Anatomy and Physiology
Instructor: Don Pump
Presentation Type: Poster
Description: Laboratory to accompany Human Anatomy and Physiology II. Reinforces major concepts of human anatomy and physiology through dissections, examination of models, laboratory experiments, and other hands-on activities.
Course: PHYL 354 Exercise Physiology Lab
Area: Anatomy and Physiology
Instructor: Don Pump
Presentation Type: Poster
Description: Laboratory section to accompany and reinforce principles and theories covered in PHYL 354. This course will provide theoretical knowledge and hands-on experience using laboratory equipment to collect data and conduct analyses of physiological responses to exercise. Major topics include energy use, the muscular, cardiovascular, and respiratory systems, and body composition as related to strength, muscular endurance, and cardio-respiratory endurance.
2 to 3 p.m.
Course: SD 250 Personal Development for Effective Teams
Area: Student Development
Instructors: Carrie Larger and Rebecca Carino-Agustin
Presentation Type: Poster
Description: SD 250 focuses on each studentʻs personal growth and leadership development to apply in group settings. This class also focuses on improving communication skills both non-verbal and verbal. Presentations will center around a product that students believe will assist incoming college first year and transfer students to become more knowledgeable about, comfortable with, and acclimated to the UH West Oʻahu campus and life as college students.
Course: MATH 491 Senior Project
Area: Mathematics
Instructor: Dr. Veny Liu
Presentation Type: Oral
Description: Working with a Mathematics faculty advisor, students will complete an in-depth research paper on a topic of interest to the student. Student will share the results of this project via a substantial thesis-oriented paper and brief oral presentation.
Course: EDEF 404 Teaching Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Learners
Area: Educational Foundations
Instructor: Dr. Paula Major
Presentation Type: Oral Discussions
Description: This course offers teacher candidates the opportunity to rediscover the value, potential, richness, and adventure of diversity as they develop the capacity to professionally address the differential learning and transition needs of culturally and linguistically diverse learners. Teacher candidates will gain new insights into reflective perspectives on themselves and the assets CLD learners bring to the classroom. The coming together of differentiating instruction, cross-cultural sensitivity, critical thinking, student accommodations, and best practices will be explored.
Research Activity: Documenting and Depicting a Changing Landscape: Honouliuli ʻĀina Hoʻohuli
Area: Anthropology
Instructor: Dr. Christy Mello
Presentation Type: Oral Presentations
Description: Documenting and Depicting a Changing Landscape: Honouliuli ʻĀina Hoʻohuli is a presentation detailing ongoing research being undertaken for the National Park Service on the Honouliuli ahupuaʻa. Dr. Mello, as Principal Investigator, will give a brief introduction. The session’s presenters include Dominic Carolos, Natalie McGuire, Kevin Muranka, and Jacob Tonkin who are research assistants for the project and anthropology students at UH West Oʻahu. Discussion details a website students co-developed for this project during the Spring 2021 course entitled ANTH/CM 404 Museum Exhibits and Visual Methods. It also overviews and highlights preliminary findings from the research that the presenters have been undertaking this Spring 2022 semester.
3 to 4 p.m.
Course: MKT 321 Marketing Research
Area: Business/Marketing
Instructor: Dr. Eli Tsukuyama
Presentation Type: Poster
Description: Quantitative research poster presentations for MKT 321 Marketing Research. Marketing research is the process of designing, collecting, analyzing, and reporting information to address marketing problems
3:30 to 5 p.m.
Course (s): ASPC 486 Senior Project Capstone/ CYBER 486
Area: Cybersecurity / Information Security & Assurance / Information Technology
Instructor: Dr. J. Burrell
Presentation Type: Poster
Description: This course is a senior capstone that provides students with the opportunity to complete original research or project in their designated field of study with the guidance of an applied science faculty advisor. Students will share the results of their research or projects in information technology and information security and assurance with symposium attendees.
