{"id":61633,"date":"2025-12-23T09:25:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T14:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/events\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=61633"},"modified":"2026-05-08T08:58:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T12:58:33","slug":"western-research-day-4","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/events\/calendar\/western-research-day-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Research Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WESTERN RESEARCH DAY:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/\">Western Connecticut State University<\/a>\u00a0will host its annual\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/wrd\/\">Western Research Day<\/a> (WRD) from <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">8 a.m. to 5 p.m.<\/span> in the Science Building on the Midtown campus. The event brings together students, faculty, and community members for a campus-wide showcase of research, creativity, and academic achievement across every discipline.<\/p>\n<p>The day\u2019s program will include opening remarks, a keynote address, student presentations, and an awards ceremony recognizing standout projects. The event is open to the public. Learn more at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/wrd\/\">www.wcsu.edu\/wrd\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s keynote speaker,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/wrd\/2026-keynote\/\">Dr. Rebecca Stearns<\/a>\u00a0of the Korey Stringer Institute, will share insights from her extensive work in sports safety. Her presentation will cover emerging findings on exertional heat stroke (EHS), including data from hundreds of documented EHS cases at the Falmouth Road Race and a long\u2011term study examining four decades of high school incidents. Stearns will also highlight the national reach of the TUFSS (Team Up for Sports Safety) initiative, which has helped drive hundreds of state\u2011level policy changes to prevent catastrophic athletic injuries.<\/p>\n<p>For more than a decade, Western Research Day has served as one of WestConn\u2019s signature academic traditions. Students selected to participate share work developed under faculty mentorship, gaining experience in a professional, conference\u2011style environment. Projects span the sciences, humanities, social sciences, and the arts, offering attendees a broad look at the university\u2019s scholarly activity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WESTERN RESEARCH DAY:\u00a0\u00a0Western Connecticut State University\u00a0will host its annual\u00a0Western Research Day (WRD) from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Science Building on the Midtown campus. The event brings together students, faculty, and community members for a campus-wide showcase of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":29832,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","wds_primary_tribe_events_cat":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[101,458],"tribe_events_cat":[47,324,19],"class_list":["post-61633","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-research","tag-wrd","tribe_events_cat-conference","tribe_events_cat-exhibition","tribe_events_cat-lectures","cat_conference","cat_exhibition","cat_lectures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/61633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/61633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61633"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=61633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}