Isaac Nichols, left, a freshman pre-engineering student, discusses his poster at the first UW Undergraduate Research Symposium with fellow undergraduate researcher, Lee Post, right, while an unidentified woman listens in. Nichols' poster includes a critical review of the state-of-the-art in sound synthesis. Physics professor Vladimir Chaloupka is his faculty mentor. At the symposium Post, a psychology major and Mary Gates Scholar, presented a juried paper entitled "Cortical representations for naming objects and actions: evidence from stimulation mapping." Psychology professor David Corina is his faculty mentor. KS 980222-3a

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