Key Players
Scientia History
RID History
URSA Scholars History
Mission, Shirt & Logo History
100
The founder of BURST.
Who is Taylor Kohn?
100
Year when first Scientia was published.
When was 2014?
100
The year of the first RID.
When was 2016?
100
Year URSA Scholars Week started.
When was 2008?
100
What does the current BURST logo look like?
What is a magnifying glass?
200
Year that BURST was founded and chartered.
When was 2012?
200
The number of pages of the shortest Scientia edition.
What is 32 pages?
200
First RID speaker.
Who is Dr. Scullin? (Baylor Sleep Neuroscience & Cognition Lab)
200
Amount of speakers at URSA Scholars Week that were Nobel Laureates.
What is one?
200
BURST motto.
What is Traversing the Unknown?
300
Only BURST member to have received both Goldwater and Fulbright scholar awards.
Taylor Kohn.
300
How was funding secured for Scientia?
What was, "former BURST president Taylor Kohn pitching the idea to the College of Arts & Sciences and donors"?
300
Dr. Elena Bottazzi's topic for RID 2020.
COVID-19 vaccine (BCM Tropical Medicine Institute)
300
Speaker at URSA 2020.
This is a trick question. There were no speakers at URSA SW due to there being a virtual symposium.
300
Logo for 2020-2021 BURST shirts.
What was a navy, yellow mountain?
400
Faculty that helped pitch club idea to College of Arts & Sciences.
Who are Dr. Sanker and Dean Vardaman?
400
The reason there has not been a printed edition of Scientia since 2019.
What is "funding cuts"?
400
RID Speaker that was involved with a Nobel Laureate project.
Who is Dr. James Heath?
400
Topic of Presentation for URSA 2018.
What is "Adventures in Solid State Synthesis"?
400
Original BURST logo appearance (just a description is fine).
500
Article published by BURST officers, highlighting state of undergrad research at the time.
What is "Why Research Matters"?
500
Something the front cover of Scientia always includes
What is a picture designed or submitted by a student researcher?
500
University where 2019 RID speaker Dr. John Mansour was Chief of Surgical Oncology.
What is UT Southwestern?
500
Person who invited first URSA speaker in 2016.
Who is Former BURST President Mallory Myers?
500
BURST Mission (This is a 3 part Statement)
What is:
1. increase awareness of undergraduate research on the Baylor campus
2. provide opportunities for undergraduates to optimize their research experiences
3. educate undergraduates in the proper habits and techniques of research in scientific fields.