OEOES
Career Exploration
Undergraduate Research
UCD Research Fun Facts
100

OEOES stands for Office of Educational Opportunity and Enrichment Services and is one of the largest resources on campus for helping students learn academic and personal success skills. One of their programs, Learning strategies 101, includes all of the following strategies except this one:

a. Dual Coding

b. Spaced Practice

c. Interleaving

d. Pretend to be a 4-year old (the ‘Why’ method)

What is d. Pretend to be a 4-year old (the 'Why' method)?

100

ICC stands for this

a. Interesting Career Center

b. Intuitive Care Center

c. Internship and Career Center

d. Involvement and Career Center

What is c. Internship and Career Center?

100

That only STEM majors can and should do research

a. True

b. False

What is b. False?

100

The percentage of undergraduates that conduct research at UC Davis, typically working with faculty, postdoctoral researchers or graduate students.

a. 20%

b. 38%

c. 50%

d. 10%

What is b. 38%?

200

This is NOT a type of workshop offered by OEOES

a. Designing a Yearly Calendar

b. Study Smarter not Harder

c. Task Management

d. Thrive versus Survive

What is a. Designing a Yearly Calendar?

200

ICC Career advisors cannot help you with this

a. Resume review

b. Interview prep

c. Job search strategies 

d. Pre-grad workshops

What is d. Pre-grad workshops?

200

This campus resource encourages and facilitates research opportunities for UC Davis undergraduates.

a. URC (Undergraduate Research Center)

b. CRU (Center of Research for Undergraduates)

c. RUC (Research as an Undergraduate, Center)

d. RRR (Researchy Research Resource)

What is a. URC (Undergraduate Research Center)?

200

UC Davis’s ranking among the top 50 universities and colleges for the amount of money made over 20 years after earning a degree.

a. 24th 

b. 25th

c. 30th 

d. 45th 

What is a. 24th?

300

This tool can be used by students to get customized recommendations for OEOES services

a. Self Assessment tool 

b. Card Sort tool

c. Self Rec tool

d. Resource Roulette

What is a. Self Assessment tool?

300

You can submit all of the following to the ICC’s Document Review Service except this

a. Resume

b. CV

c. Thesis

d. Cover Letter

What is c. Thesis?

300

This virtual workshop series is put on to provide support and guidance to students interested in pursuing research opportunities, presenting at conferences, and/or applying for funding and awards. 

a. Knowledge Buffet

b. Theory Take-out

c. Learning Restaurant

d. Discovery Cafe 

What is d. Discovery Cafe?

300

In an effort to expose the illegitimacy of many “predatory journals” that appear legitimate but forgo any peer-review, UC Davis trained Entomologist Matan Shelomi wrote a fictitious research paper about how eating This bat-like Pokémon sparked the spread of COVID-19, which was promptly accepted for publication.

a. Charizard

b. Zubat

c. Golbat

d. Pikachu

What is b. Zubat?

400

Before covid, most OEOES workshops were located in this hall.

a. Dutton Hall

b. South Hall

c. Mrak Hall

d. North Hall

What is b. South Hall?

400

According to the ICC, this is NOT a sign of a job scam

a. Focuses on how much money you'll make. If it seems too good to be true, it probably is.

b. Links to a fake or minimalist website

c. Has spelling errors or lacks a professional tone

d. Lists a company with an established physical office

What is d. Lists a company with an established physical office?

400

the following is a requirement for presenting at the annual Undergraduate Research Conference

a. UC Davis undergraduate students conducting research from any academic field under the guidance of a UC Davis faculty member.

b. You have to have conducted this research for the past 2 years. 

c. You have to share a DNA sample, as part of your application. For data analysis purposes. 

d. You have to have upper-division standing 

What is a. UC Davis undergraduate students conducting research from any academic field under the guidance of a UC Davis faculty member?

400

400 In 2019, a research essay called “Three‐Legged Locomotion and the Constraints on Limb Number: Why Tripeds Don’t Have a Leg to Stand On” was published arguing that the early rise of bilateral symmetry in the evolution of life is the main reason we have never see any animals on earth evolve three-limbed locomotion. This essay was published by Tracy Thomson, a UC Davis graduate student in this department:

a. Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences

b. Department of Evolution and Ecology

c. Department of Animal Science

d. Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology

What is a. Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences?

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