Students presented their research at the 2024 Undergraduate Research Symposium

Students from the Schloss Visual Reasoning Lab presented their work at the 27th annual Undergraduate Symposium! The annual Undergraduate Symposium showcases undergraduate creativity, achievement, research, service-learning, and community-based research from all areas of study at UW–Madison including the humanities, arts, biological sciences, physical sciences, social sciences, and computer data and information sciences.

Left: Qaitlyn Ross and Rosa Jimenez presented their poster on Understanding the Design Space of Real-world Colormap Data Visualizations to Inform Intuitive Colormap Design. Qaitlyn and Rosa conducted this research as part of the Undergraduate Research Scholars program at UW-Madison.

Right: Melina Mueller presented her research on the Effect of Second-Order Conditioning on Category Extrapolation for Learning Novel Color-Concept Associations. Melina conducted this research for her senior honors thesis, supported by the Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Fellowship sponsored by the McPherson Eye Research Institute.