Fifty-six IVC students, supported by the IVC Honors Program, participated in the 23rd Annual UCI Community College Honors Research Conference. IVC students delivered 23 oral and 19 poster presentations, comprising 42 of the 224 research projects presented—the greatest number out of the 29 participating colleges statewide. Under the guidance of IVC faculty mentors, students worked hard to conduct research, write proposal abstracts, and prepare their posters or oral presentations. Anna Dupree and Dee Bao’s project, “Seven Billion Alaskan Snow Crabs Vanished: What Happened?”, completed under the mentorship of Math Professor Lan Pham, won 1st place for STEM posters. Another IVC group project won an Outstanding Abstract Award for “Utilizing Machine Learning Algorithms Trained on Recent Music-Listening Activity in Predicting Big Five Personality Traits: A Novel Ongoing Investigation.”
Fourteen additional IVC students participated in the conference by volunteering to moderate Q&A during oral presentation sessions, and IVC Honors Director Emily Liu served as the conference’s program chair on behalf of the Honors Transfer Council of California.