Date and time:  Wed. Sept. 28, 2022 8:00am to Thurs. Sept. 29, 2022 1:45 pm

Location:  Online through the ICUR App:  https://www.icurportal.com/icur-app/

 Watch Baruch undergraduates in diverse fields present original research with peers around the globe on one-hour online panels across a two-day schedule.  Schedule of Baruch students' panels here.  Register and participate in Q&A through the ICUR App.  All are welcome!  Funded at Baruch by the Office of the Provost.  Questions?  Contact Katherine.pence@baruch.cuny.edu

 All are welcome to hear and learn from undergraduate researchers at Baruch and around the world at the ninth annual International Conference of Undergraduate Research (ICUR) at Baruch, which will be held on Wed. Sept. 28- Thurs. Sept. 29, 2022. Organized by the Monash-Warwick Alliance and funded at Baruch by the Office of the Provost, it will showcase research from nearly 600 undergraduate students from around the world including 15 students from across Baruch departments.  See the schedule of panels featuring Baruch’s presenters here.

Day 1 of panels featuring Baruch Students : Wednesday, Sept. 28

 8:00 am-9:00 am: Wednesday, Sept. 28 Session 9C: Perspectives on Gender and Society (with Baruch, University of Warwick, and University of Leeds) 

Kaitlan Russell (Baruch College—Spanish Literature Major): “The role of U.S. imperialism in the construction of masculinity in the Puerto Rican and Dominican diaspora”

 9:15 am-10:15 am: Wednesday, Sept. 28  Session 10C– Modern Perspectives: The World of Science (with Baruch and University of Warwick) 

Florence Uritsky (Baruch College—Biological Sciences Major): “Computational Studies of the Decarboxylation of Cannabidiolic Acid to Cannabidiol”

 10:30am-11:30 am: Wednesday, Sept. 28 Session 11A– Investigating our Ecosystems (with Baruch, University of Warwick, and Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium) 

Jie Ying (Baruch College—Biological Sciences Major): “Two Juvenile Hormone Degradation Enzymes, Different Effects on Drosophila melanogaster Growth”

11:45am - 12:45pm: Wednesday, Sept. 28 Session 12D—Novel Perspectives: Gender (with Baruch and the University of Leeds)

Hannah RenzSwyers (Baruch College—History Major): “The Fight for Autonomy: how prominent female leaders in Turkey fought the status quo in the fight for women’s equality”

 Katrynna Jackowicz (Baruch College—Political Science Major): “The Effect of Learning Martial Arts on Women: An Examination of Notions of Confidence and Self-Efficacy”

 1:00pm - 2:00pm: Wednesday, Sept. 28 Session 13B—Teaching and Learning: New Perspectives (with the University of Warwick and Baruch)

 Jonathan Figueroa Reyes (Baruch College—Mathematics Major): “Spanning Forest Probabilities on Path Graphs and Binary Trees”

ICUR 2022 virtually links Baruch College student presenters on interdisciplinary panels with peers from the University of Warwick, UK; the University of Leeds, UK; Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium; and University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Other students will participate from universities in Australia, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, and France.  

ICUR provides the opportunity for undergraduate researchers across all disciplines to present their work to a global audience, via the Microsoft Teams video-conferencing technology, hosted by our ICUR App. Attendees can drop in to sessions throughout the September 28-29, from the comfort of their own homes and offices. 

ICUR 2022 is free to join and open to the public from anywhere in the world. Thanks to its 48-hour format, participants and audience will be able to watch, participate, interact and ask questions via the ICUR App, no matter which time zone they live in. 

Please download and register with the ICUR App now to take part in ICUR 2022, support emerging researchers and discover what’s going on in the world of undergraduate research. 

You can also connect with ICUR online via our social media channels @ICURstudents on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, and share about your experience using the hashtag #ICUR2022. 

See videos about ICUR here and here.  We look forward to welcoming you at ICUR 2022! 

Questions?  Ask ICUR Baruch Coordinator and Provost Innovation Fellow for Cross-College and Undergraduate Research, Katherine Pence:  Katherine.pence@baruch.cuny.edu