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2017 Mellon SURFs Present at Conferences
2017 Mellon SURFs Present at Conferences in Oklahoma and Philadelphia

This past weekend five 2017 Mellon SURFs presented the results of their summer research at conferences.

Four of the presentations took place at NCUR (National Conference on Undergraduate Research), which was at the University of Central Oklahoma from April 5-7.

Two of the students gave poster presentations. Benjamin Brody's poster was titled "Images, Administrator, and Archives: Seals in the Persepolis Fortification Archive," and Andrew Tao's poster was titled "Making Auleius' Metamorphoses Accessible." 

Benjamin Brody explaining his poster "Images, Administrator, and Archives: Seals in Persepolis Fortification Archive"


The two other NCUR presenters gave papers. Nhi Nguyen gave a presentation titled "Anti-Chinese Sentiment in Contemporary Vietnam," and Tiffany Nguyen gave a presentation titled "What's Done is Donne: Analyzing Misogyny in Elegy 19." 

Nhi Nguyen giving a presentation titled "Anti-Chinese Sentiment in Contemporary Vietnam"


The fifth presenter, Jessica Phillips, presented a poster titled "Chinese Language Cinema and the Cross-Cultural Gaze: Analyzing Students' Responses to Zhang Yang's ³§³ó´Ç·É±ð°ùÌýand Ang Lee's Eat Drink Man Woman" at the annual ASIANetwork Conference in Philadephia. 

Jessica Phillips presenting a poster titled "Chinese Language Cinema and the Cross-Cultural Gaze:  Analyzing Students' Responses to Zhang Yang's Shower and Ang Lee's Eat Drink Man Woman" at the annual ASIANetwork Conference in Philadelphia


Congratulations to Jessica Phillips, Benjamin Brody, Nhi Nguyen, Tiffany Nguyen, and Andrew Tao on their successful conference presentations!

The Undergraduate Research in the Arts & Humanities (URAH) promotes undergraduate research in the arts and humanities at ÐÔ°®ÌìÌà in San Antonio.

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