Research Day!

Today was Research Day. For a little background, the second year graduate students have to perform a research assignment. We have at least one advisor to oversee the research. I had 2 partners and mine research was on The Effectiveness of Two Physical Therapy Internventions for Increasing Pectoralis Minor Length. Ultimately we were looking at "bad" posture and the contribution of pect. minor length in playing a part. It was a really cool research project and we got some good results, even if they weren't exactly what we thought they would be. My group was 1 out of 8 that had to do a platform presentation. We had to present last... right before lunch. There were also about 12 poster presentations afterwards. 3 people are picked to judge the presentations and vote on the best from each section. This year one faculty (with no interest in a particular study), on physical therapist from a nearby clinic, and our Dean of Health Sciences who resides on the Houston campus, were the judges. The 2 best then get their name on a plaque at the school that has predecessors from the last few years on it. As I had published before, this was very time consuming and a lot of hard work. Well, my group won the platform presentation award! This year a nearby clinic (same mentioned above) Concentra gave a $100 award to each group and a group plaque (separate from the one at the school). I did not expect to win the award even though a few people had told us afterwards that they thought we would. One of our advisors had also told us previously that she thought we had a good chance. This not only makes us look good (and is a great honor), but it makes our advisors look good even though they were just there for the basic guidance and we did all of the brunt work.

Anyways, I'm real excited about the award and thought that it was really cool how our hard work was acknowledged. I thought everyone did an awesome job and I'm sure it was hard to choose the best one. Just thought I'd share my excitement!