600 Ingenious Buckeyes Showcase their Achievements at the 19th Annual Richard J. and Martha D. Denman Undergraduate Research Forum For nearly two decades, Mr. and Mrs. Denman have enabled students to display their hard work- many of them being your scholarship recipients! For example, Devin Oliver is a recipient of the Thomas Fogel/PFLAG Memorial Scholarship, and he was featured on OSU's website for his research. Devin became curious about Rio De Janeiro's LGTBQ-friendly tourist marketing when he studied abroad there in 2011. Now he has completed a project on how it contrasts from local everyday sentiments toward the LGBTQ community. The beauty of the Denman, is that it allows students to take their little questions and curiosities and to delve deeper into them, transforming them into answers to be shared with the world. Students enter their projects in one of eleven categories and are judged and ranked in that category. The topics are as varied as the minds who develop them: from "Thoughts in My Lungs: An Exploration of the Relationship Between Dance and Yoga", by Ella Matweyou which won Honorable Mention in the Art/Architecture category, to "Cytotoxicity Studies to Characterize Self-Assembling Amphiphiles for Targeted Cancer Drug Delivery" by Anne Kim, first place winner in the Mathematics and Physical Science category. All of this work, not only gives each student direction in their areas of study, but also contributes valuable work to the bodies of knowledge in their respected fields. Interim President Alutto emphasized the role of the forum, "The students presenting today are approaching society's evolving questions with fresh thinking and innovative strategies. Their efforts are essential if our university is to continue to improve lives with powerful, high-impact research in the decades to come." You can read more about the Richard J. and Martha D. Denman Undergraduate Research Forum in the event program. Also, you can find the full list of Denman Winners online.