UW-River Falls seniors Joshua Gustafson, left, and Ryan Ruegsegger, right, received outstanding presentation awards at the 14th Annual UW System Symposium for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity on April 24.

Students Shine at UW System Symposium for Undergraduate Research

April 28, 2015 -- Two University of Wisconsin-River Falls undergraduates received outstanding presentation awards at the 14th Annual UW System Symposium for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity held in Milwaukee April 24.  

Senior Ryan Ruegsegger, of Monticello, received an outstanding presentation award for his project, "China's Dairyman," and Senior Joshua Gustafson, of Minocqua, received an outstanding presentation award for his short film, "How to Horror: The Differences between American and Japanese Horror."  

Both Ruegsegger and Gustafson developed their projects through a course-embedded research assignment in Associate Professor Lissa Schneider-Rebozo's Global Perspectives "Modern East Asian Literature and Cinema" course.  

There were more than 650 undergraduate presentations at the symposium this year (breaking the prior UW System record of 450) and only 15 awards were given. 

For more information, call Schneider-Rebozo, UWRF director of Undergraduate Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity, and associate professor of English, at 715-425-3903 or email elizabeth.schneider-rebozo@uwrf.edu.