Every year, the Honolulu chapter of the ARCS Foundation (Achievement Rewards for College Scientists) presents scholarships to a select number of graduate students working on research in the various sciences at UH Manoa.This year, there were 12 awards given to students ranging from the physical and natural sciences to health sciences and engineering. I was one of two students (both from Electrical Engineering) to receive an award from the College of Engineering.
In exchange for the award, the ARCS Foundation asks the students to prepare short semi-technical talks and posters to share their research with the donors and coordinators. I took this as a great opportunity to hone my (slightly rusty) public speaking skills, and prepared the slideshow below to augment my ten minute talk.
(edit: It looks like the video player has cut off the title slide. You're not missing much, but the whole thing is available via the links below)
The slides and poster are both also available as PDF's.
In addition to practicing my speaking skills, the presentation session was enjoyable because it shed some light on the interesting research being done by 11 other bright scientists around the campus. Some particularly interesting work is being done by Jim Baker (EE) in compact high-frequency radio antenna design, Brendan Bowler (Astro) in the search for extra-solar planets, and Tiffany Anderson (Oceanography) in shoreline erosion due to storms.
Nice! Recognition in and of itself is terrific but when money is added you feel even more legit. Hope to hear details about the work sometime.
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