April 23, 2021 : By Jacob Couch - Office of Communications & Public Engagement A combined 59 total faculty from different departments volunteered to serve as the week’s judges. Following a successful research week last spring, despite all presentations given virtually due to COVID-19, this year’s in-person event at the library proved to be the largest Research Week since its inception in 2017, with 263 presentations. “Research Week serves to provide all our students — whether residential, online, graduate, or undergraduate — an opportunity to showcase all the hard work they have put into their research, scholarship, and creative works,” Associate Director for the Center for Research & Scholarship Darren Wu said. “It is an opportunity for them to develop soft skills such as demonstrating their work ethic, critical thinking, meeting deadlines, performing under stress, and communication in a low-stakes environment.”