 Today's one of my favorite days. It's spring, we're nearing the end of the academic year, and that means one thing, undergrad research presentations. So I'm on my way down to the scholars week presentations that we have here at Western. These are presentations from every department. I've got two students in physics and astronomy. They're students in chemistry, biology, neuroscience. They're art students summarizing their research, summarizing the projects they've been working on for months, years. This is the only chance that I have during the year usually to hear about what's going on in other departments. What's cool is I've also seen on campus some other presentations, so like art and design program has been printing t-shirts of designs that students have been developing. One of the really fascinating things is how different scholarship looks like, how different scholarship is between different departments, and it's not just like do you publish in journals, do you write books, do you write articles, do you go to conferences, but also just the way we structure research projects, what we give students. Some people do a lot of programming, some people do a lot of design, some people are running experiments with humans and animals, just such an amazing immersive range of projects going on. And it gets really weird to me in humanities, but that's what's really fascinating is these are rigorous and fascinating subjects as well, so they design their undergrad experiences totally differently. So as an educator, as a mentor, it's a really valuable thing to go see how students are getting their projects structured, what makes for a good and successful research experience for a student. Also a behavioral neuroscience major. I'm Seth Novak, also a behavioral neuroscience major. So our poster is called The Road to Musicianship, effects language along the way, and we gave 15 non-musicians musical training for 11 days and found that their ability to discriminate small differences in voice onset time or temporal acoustic features actually improved with musical training. My name is Zach, I'm a racer student here at Western Washington University, and I've been studying the variability of EK draw. My name is Matthew Skargans, and I'm with WWU's Physics and Astronomy Department, and we've been studying stellar activity cycles. I'm Zach Domingo, Mayor Schoner, and this is our research regarding crime patterns. We generated four different models, and we found that crime, specifically domestic violence and alcohol crimes, increased from winter to summer, and decreased from summer to winter. My name is Serena, and I am creating an autism story to Dating App. My name is David Seaman, and I work with the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Western Washington University, where I work on developing a theoretical model of nanoparticle doped polymer film systems. Hi, my name is Hardy Tijuana, and I'm in the behavioral neuroscience program here at Western Washington University, and I study neurobiology of violence and disease. Hi, I'm Nick, I'm a statistics major at Western, and my project is on short-term volatility curve predictions using a singular spectrum analysis. Hi, my name is Liv, and I'm Michael, and we were testing to see if up-regulating the mox1 gene in mucophyllum melanogaster increased their lifespan. And if females, the answer is yes. As of every year, that did not disappoint. So many cool posters. I spent like two hours up there just walking around and hearing people talk about their research. What an awesome experience. My one regret is that I didn't talk to the person whose poster is about coffee. Maybe next time.