The UTSA Student Research Conference and Competition, Spring 2001

该项目支持为本科生和硕士研究生举办的研究会议和竞赛，这些本科生和硕士研究生与人类学、历史学、政治学、心理学和社会学等学科的教师一起进行研究。大会通过多种方式鼓励本科生进入研究生院，鼓励硕士研究生继续深造。首先，这有助于给他们动力和机会，让他们在教员导师的指导下参与研究，就像他们在研究生院做的那样。其次，它让他们接触到其他参与研究的学生，并可能有兴趣继续他们的教育。第三，它邀请外部演讲者讨论与研究过程相关的价值和回报，并邀请一名全体演讲者进一步讨论研究生教育中少数族裔学生的话题。第四，它为本科生和研究生竞赛的前三名提供500美元、250美元和100美元的奖励。这次会议扩大了以前规模较小的会议，事实证明，这些会议成功地让参加会议的学生申请研究生院。它招募来自南得克萨斯州地区的学生参与者，特别是希望吸引少数族裔和第一代大学生，并增强他们被研究生项目录取和在不同职业中寻求领导职位的动力和竞争力。

This project supports a research conference and competition for undergraduate and masters level graduate students who are conducting research with faculty members from the disciplines of Anthropology, History, Political Science, Psychology, and Sociology. In a variety of ways, the conference encourages undergraduate students to enter graduate school and encourage masters level graduate students to continue. First, it helps give them the motivation and opportunity to participate in the kind of research with faculty mentors that they would do in graduate school. Second, it exposes them to other students involved in research, and possibly interested in continuing their education. Third, it brings in outside speakers to discuss the values and rewards associated with the research process, and an invited plenary speaker to further address the topic of minority students in graduate education. Fourth, it makes awards of $500, $250, and $100 for the top three places in the undergraduate and graduate competition. The conference expands on previously smaller conferences that proved successful in getting participating students to apply to graduate school. It recruits student participants from the South Texas region, hoping in particular to attract minority and first-generation college students, and to enhance their motivation and competitiveness in being accepted into graduate programs and in seeking leadership roles in diverse professions.