10th Annual WSU Vancouver Research Showcase

Research Showcase 2013

Thursday, April 18, 2013
Firstenburg Student Commons
All events are free and open to the public

Highlighting faculty and student research, scholarship, and artistic expression

Female students with research boardWSU Vancouver faculty and students will display and discuss their work at the 10th Annual WSU Vancouver Research Showcase. Research projects will be presented in the form of posters, multimedia installations, oral presentations, and exhibits.

Schedule 

8 a.m. - 11 a.m.
Research Showcase Displays and Judging
Firstenburg Student Commons (VFSC)

11 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Judging Deliberations
Firstenburg Student Commons (VFSC), room 104

12:00 p.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Awards Ceremony
Firstenburg Student Commons (VFSC)

A committee of faculty judges will give awards to the top three graduate and top three undergraduate projects.

Rushkoff profile photo1 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Keynote Address - Douglas Rushkoff

"Program or Be Programmed: Play, Participation and Power in the Digital Age"

Dengerink Administration Building (VDEN), room 110

Douglas Rushkoff is a pioneer in the area of new media and popular culture who coined such common phrases as “viral media” and “digital native.”  An author of 11 books, Rushkoff has also produced three PBS documentaries on topics relating to digital media, the most famous of which is "Digital Nation" (2010); given commentaries on CBS Sunday Morning and NPR's All Things Considered; appeared on TED Talks; and has written for the New York Times and TheGuardian. He is on faculty at several universities in the NY area and serves on numerous media boards in the US.

For his keynote talk, he will draw from "Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age," a recent book that argues that we must learn the digital technologies so ubiquitous around us in order not to be controlled by them.

Male student with research board2 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Reception
Dengerink Administration Building (VDEN), room 129/130

Faculty, staff, students and guests are invited to gather for informal conversation and networking.

3 p.m. - 4 p.m.
History Research Showcase Presentations/Student Presentations
Dengerink Administration Building (VDEN), room 129

“Maine's Legacy of Slavery: A Case of Legal Discrimination in the Nineteenth Century”
Mary Alyce Davies
 
“Chinese Workers and the Columbia River Salmon Industry”
Mike Gay
 
“Franklin: Black Miners and the Oregon Improvement Company”
Meghan Wolf
 
“The Land of the Free? Norwegian-American Identity Production and the Boost of Norwegian Independence”
Hans-Petter Grav
 
“Work, Worthiness, and Responsibility: Assessing the Need for Public Relief at the Clark County Poor Farm in the 1930s”
Erin Leverman
 
“The Gay Church; Homosexuality and the New Schism within the Episcopal Church”
James William Kice