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Guest Column
ACES in the Hole
Conference features some of the best UTA students
One of my favorite things about UT Arlington is its impressive student
body.
I often hear about students juggling work with class, taking a hands-on
role in extraordinary research and assuming leadership positions in
organizations and the classroom.
Every spring, we showcase some of our best and brightest at the Annual
Celebration of Excellence by Students, or ACES conference. The conference
is today in the upper level of the University Center.
ACES allows students who are actively involved in research and creative
activities to present and discuss their projects to an audience of student
peers, faculty and staff members. This is your time to shine.
But it is more than a student research symposium; it reinforces the
notion that being a research university means more than having top faculty
scholars.
Both graduates and undergraduates can and should participate in research
even before they graduate and take an active, leading role in their
own education. Students should learn by doing, not by passively receiving
information.
This is what ACES celebrates.
ACES students represent every college and school on campus, from architecture
to engineering to liberal arts. Though the students study in different
fields, they have one thing in common: They’re all Mavericks.
Our recent brand launch told us that Mavericks are independent thinkers
who blaze their own trails and forge their own paths. And that’s
the best way to describe these students.
They’re in the lab or studio, conducting research with a faculty
mentor.
They’re learning by doing.
They’re taking the lead.
In other words, they’re Mavericks. And they’re not alone.
By recognizing the excellence of these students, we are also applauding
the role of their faculty mentors and the many people who make ACES
so successful each year.
This symposium has grown in size and scope every year, and we expect
ACES 2006 to be the best yet. We expect a record number of submissions,
participants and attendees. And we expect some of the most creative,
inventive and trailblazing projects.
Teresa Sullivan, the UT System’s vice chancellor for Academic
Affairs, will also give a keynote address.
I’m proud to join many others on campus and in the UT System who
recognize and celebrate the excellence of our students.
Through their commitment to research and discovery, they show what it
means to be a Maverick.
— James D. Spaniolo is the university president
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