The mission of Undergraduate Research Consortium (URC) is to promote quality undergraduate research in the natural sciences, mathematics, computer science and engineering under the guidance of professors resulting in publications in undergraduate research journals and/or presentations in professional conferences.

Awards Available from URC and NASA:

• URC 2008-2009 Grant Application Form
• NASA 2008-2009 Scholarship Application Form

More information is available at the URC page.

Past Undergraduate Research Activities

Amine Benkiran has been awarded Undergraduate Fellowship from NASA WV Space Grant Consortium. Amine is now a Mathematics major and his advisor is Dr. Rajeev Rajaram (Update: Amine is now a graduate student in Penn State University with full scholarship ).

School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics had NASA day on April 24, 2008. CME students Raymond Naegle and William K. presented their NASA fellowship research work on NASA day.

Mr. Ray Naegle in CME department won one of two NASA awards in WVAS 2008 meeting for his poster titled Geometric and Removal Attack Resistant Watermarking in the Wavelet Domain”.  His mentor was Dr. Xiaojun Qi from Utah State University. Dr. Zhijun Wang, Dr. Liao and Dr. Rajaram have worked with Ray at Shepherd. Congratulations Ray.

Adam Anderson is selected as NASA 2007 Summer internship recipient at NASA IV&V facilities. Adam is now a double major in both CIS and Mathematics.

Raymond Naegle is selected as NSF Summer REU recipient to work at Utah State University during summer 2007. Raymond's major is Computer and Information Sciences.

School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics had NASA day on April 25, 2007.

The following students and faculty members have made poster presentation at East Costal Computer Algebra Day 2007 (ECCAD'07) on April 21, 2007 at Washington College.

• Edwards A Rantanen, Chan Mao C. Jackson, Raymond A. Naegle, Jordan H. Fuller, Dr. Osman Guzide, Increased Efficiency for Bandwidth Utilization.
• Dr. Osman Guzide, Kenny May and James Getz, Efficient Meta-Network for P2P: Combining Internet and Overlay Networks.
• Brandon Burkhart, Catherine Razzook, Donald Hale, Caroline Ebersole, Matthew Prince, Michelle Ring, Raina Romero, Randall Wolfe and Dr. Rajeev Rajaram, On the Proof of the RSA Public Key Cryptography Scheme.
• Dr. Weidong Liao and Benjamin Koonse, A JMEI based AJAX Library for Symbolic Computation.
• Jonathan P. O'Keefe, Dr. Weidong Liao and Dr. Osman Guzide, J-GCD: A Java based GCD Computation Service over the Internet and Grid Computing Environment.

On March 31, 2007, Jonathan P. O'Keefe, Weidong Liao and Osman Guzide presented their research on "Providing GCD Computation Services over the Internet and Distributed Environment" in the 82nd West Virginia Academy of Science annual meeting.

On March 6, 2007, Benjamin Koonse and Weidong Liao presented their research work on "A MVC based Framework to Supplying Mathematical Services over the Internet/Web" in the IEEE System and Software Engineering Week.

Cooperating with Kent State University, Marcella Townsend and Sheraton Stump completed their NSF Summer 2005 REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates) research project on Web based Mathematical Education site (http://www.shepherdmathtutor.com).