¼ø»Æʦapp Hosts Florida Undergraduate Research Conference
¼ø»Æʦapp hosted the Florida Undergraduate Research Conference (FURC) 2017 on Friday, Feb. 24 and Saturday, Feb. 25 on its Boca Raton campus.
¼ø»Æʦapp College of Business ¼ø»Æʦapp talk about their research with ¼ø»Æʦapp President John Kelly.
¼ø»Æʦapp recently hosted the Florida Undergraduate Research Conference (FURC) 2017 on Friday, Feb. 24 and Saturday, Feb. 25 at ¼ø»Æʦapp's Boca Raton campus. Sponsored by ¼ø»Æʦapp’s Office of Undergraduate Research and Inquiry, it is one of the country’s largest multi-disciplinary research conferences and is open to all undergraduate researchers in the state.
FURC 2017 featured 330 presentations from student-researchers from 25 different colleges and universities throughout Florida. In addition to poster presentations and workshops, 33 graduate recruiters from across the country were in attendance to meet and network with ¼ø»Æʦapp.
Kate Detwiler, Ph.D., an assistant professor of anthropology at ¼ø»Æʦapp, served as the conference’s keynote speaker on Friday, Feb. 24 at 6 p.m. at the Delray Hyundai Deck of ¼ø»Æʦapp Stadium.Ìý Detwiler specializes in studying rare and endangered primate species in the Congo rainforests and hybrid monkeys in western Tanzania. Her work on the discovery of Cercopithecus lomamiensis, a new monkey species, received international media coverage in publications including National Geographic, Science magazine and Nature.Ìý
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