The SJSU Student Research Competition takes place annually in March and it winners are invited to participate in the CSU Research Competition.

SJSU Student Research Competition

Each college may send forward to the Office of Graduate Studies & Research a total of four students (undergraduate and/or graduate, as well as alumni/alumnae who received their degrees in Spring, Summer, or Fall of the previous year ) who have done outstanding research or creative activity. The divisions of competition have been arranged to parallel the system-wide procedures, and the judges for the selection are faculty experts within the disciplines.  See Student Research Competition Rules for more information.

How To Apply

Interested students are encouraged to contact their faculty advisor or department to receive instructions on how to submit their research to the SJSU Student Research Competition to be held on March 6 and March 7, 2013 on campus at a location to be determined.   Applications are made to the student's college, and each college must submit their selections to Graduate Studies & Research by February 22, 2013. For each student forwarded from the college to Graduate Studies & Research, a cover sheet (Student Delegate Registration Form) and summary of the research (5 pages maximum, double spaced; appendices are separate but should be limited) accompany the nomination. Colleges should forward one electronic copy and five single-sided copies of each competition packet to Graduate Studies & Research by the due daate.  In addition to the application materials indicated above, the students nominated must also download and submit to the Office of GS&R a Permission to Publish form, a Permission to Photograph form, and a Spartan Daily Permission form. These forms are campus-specific documents and available only here.

Student Research Competition Winners

2013 SJSU Student Research Competition

Anthony Bortolazzo
Predicting Cryptic Splice Sites in Human Genes
Undergraduate, Biological Sciences (Molecular)
Advisor:  Sami Khuri

Sophia Gutierrez
Desirable or Dangerous?  The Turban’s Sojourn in the American Imaginaire, from the 1830s
Post 9/11
Undergraduate, Liberal Studies
Advisor:  Todd Perreira

Andrew Lavin
A Dual-Aspect Theory of Perception
Graduate, Philosophy
Faculty Mentor:  Anand Vaidya

Brian Maurer
Optimization of a Novel Technique to Measure Bulk Viable Biomass, Based on the Hydrolysis of Fluorescein Diacetate by Ubiquitous Enzymes
Graduate, Marine Science
Faculty Mentor:  Nick Welschmeyer
 
Daniel Nguyen
Highly Efficient Light-Driven P450 Biocatalysts
Undergraduate, Chemistry
Faculty Mentor:  Lionel Cheruzel
 
Harikrishna Patadiya
Uriel Rosas
Erik Gillenwater
PV System Performance Assessment
Undergraduates, Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Mentor:  James Mokri
 
Rudiger (Rudy) Schwartz
EuBCO Pseudogap Precursors: a MaxEnt-µSR Study
Undergraduate, Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Mentor:  Carolus Boekema
 
Sarah Swift
Low-Tech, Eye-Movement-Accessible AAC and Typical Adults
Graduate, Communication Disorders & Sciences
Faculty Mentor:  Wendy Quach
 

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL!!