What is a Senior Research Project?

At BASIS Tucson, seniors have the chance to propose an independent research project that takes place off campus during the last trimester of the year. The seniors whose proposals are accepted write their own syllabi and then head off into the world, to a site where they conduct their research while interning with a professional in the field. Those of us stuck on campus follow their adventures on this blog. Now that the projects are over, we are all excited to attend their presentations. The schedule is as follows:

Wednesday, May 11, 6-8 PM
at the U of A Poetry Center (environmentalism projects)
Sierra Cordova, Nicole Rapatan, Zobella Vinik and Dany Joumaa (see titles of projects, below)

Saturday, May 14, 10-12 AM
at The Loft Cinema (arts projects)
Clarice Bales, Samone Isom, Josh Waterman and Angelynn Khoo (see titles of projects, below)

Monday, May 16, 6-8 PM
at BioSciences West, Rm. 310, U of A ( U of A projects)
Joseph Tang, Jayanth Ganesan, Andrew Graham and Gabriel Carranza (see titles of projects, below)

Tuesday, May 17, 6-8 PM
at U of A McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship, Blg. MCLND, rm. 207 (travel abroad projects)
Clover Powell, Greg Spell, Agustin Temporini and Margarita Sadova.

We'd love to see you there!



The BASIS Tucson Class of 2011 Senior Research Project bloggers (with the titles of their projects) are:



Clarice Bales: "Narrative and Film"



Sierra Cordova: "The Intent and Application of Environmental Policy"



Clover Powell: "The Artistic Interpretation of the Biological Sciences"



Greg Spell: "Micro-venturing in Guatemala"



Agustin Temporini: "A Study of the Role of the Press in 1960's/70's Argentina"



Gabriel Carranza: "Analysis and Research on Drugs associated with Torsades de Pointes"



Dany Joumaa: "Innovations in Display Technology: Synthesis of Organic Luminescent Materials Compounds"



Joseph Tang: "The Creation and Project of 3D Holograms"



Jayanth Ganesan: "Research of Game Thoeretic Models in relation to Non-Market Games"



Andrew Graham: "The Malaria-Resistant Mosquito"



Samone Isom: "Art and Artist: in peril of Devaluation?"



Angelynn Khoo: "Mousa, Mouseion, Museum: MOCA Tucson"



Nicole Rapatan: "Sustainable Architecture and Design in Modern Times"



Margarita Sadova: "Pulmonology at St. Joseph's Hospital"



Josh Waterman: "The Fiery Crossroads of Artistic Value and Financial Success in the Independent Film Industry"



Zobella Vinik: "Environmental Psychology with the Drachman Institute"







Enjoy the Blog!



















Sunday, March 20, 2011

Such is the situation... - Dany Joumaa

(Glad to see we're finally putting our names in the title of the blog posts)

In all honesty, little has happened with my official internship while Dr. Zheng has been off to China. It's next to impossible to secure lab time while the sponsoring professor is out of town, and unfortunately chem grad students are too busy preparing their final theses (it's that time of year, apparently).

In the meantime, I've been perusing some of Dr. Zheng's research papers in preparation of being asked to write something new for the SRP blog, but given what I know now, Dr. Zheng and I will finish the recrystallization of Eu(DBM)3 (which turned out to be incredibly bright when we shone UV upon it!) and also finish preparing the other compound [Eu(Tta)3] with which to compare against Eu(DBM)3. Monday or Tuesday--depending on when Dr Zheng is free and available--will mark my return to the lab to finish the creation of the compounds and to begin the empirical measurements of the efficiency of each compound.

Outside of campus, I flew to Austin (again on AUR's tab) to attend a social media conference and ended up getting contact info with YouTube employees and a promise to become a beta tester for music-related YT features. Other than the 8-hour wait in the airport terminal in Austin (because I had no hotel), there isn't anything else other than great things to say about that trip :) Needless to say, I did manage to get a little SXSW under my belt. Also amazing.

Keep in touch!
--Dany.

2 comments:

Josh Waterman said...

Dang Dany! This is all very cool. Congrats.

And about that music-related youtube stuff, anything you can do to bring down Vevo is great in my book

Ms. Toews said...

and . . . what is the news on the college front?