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Fifty-six �鶹��ý students, supported by the �鶹��ý Honors Program, participated in the 23rd Annual UCI Community College Honors Research Conference. �鶹��ý students delivered 23 oral and 19 poster presentations, comprising 42 of the 224 research projects presented—the greatest number out of the 29 participating colleges statewide. Under the guidance of �鶹��ý faculty mentors, students worked hard to conduct research, write proposal abstracts, and prepare their posters or oral presentations. Anna Dupree and Dee Bao’s project, “Seven Billion Alaskan Snow Crabs Vanished: What Happened?”, completed under the mentorship of Math Professor Lan Pham, won 1st place for STEM posters. Another �鶹��ý group project won an Outstanding Abstract Award for “Utilizing Machine Learning Algorithms Trained on Recent Music-Listening Activity in Predicting Big Five Personality Traits: A Novel Ongoing Investigation.”  

Fourteen additional �鶹��ý students participated in the conference by volunteering to moderate Q&A during oral presentation sessions, and �鶹��ý Honors Director Emily Liu served as the conference’s program chair on behalf of the Honors Transfer Council of California.