VNU – HUS students’ passion for scientific research

21 students’ most excellent reports from 8 faculties of VNU University of Science had been chosen to be presented in the form of posters in front of the university panel. Students got to decide between directly reporting from their spot or presenting a pre-recorded video; afterwards, they had to answer questions from the panel’s members.

In his opening speech at the HUS 2021 Student Scientific Report Assessment Session, Assoc.Prof Tran Quoc Binh, Vice President of the university expressed his delight seeing that the researching movement of students was not affected by the Covid-19 in the previous academic year  even though many research activities required field study and experiments.

“With students’ passion for scientific research and the lecturers’ enthusiastic instruction; together with the appropriate arrangement of training and researching plans by the Board of rectors, the number of scientific works not only stayed the same but increased significantly compared to the previous years. There were in total 432 students’ scientific reports with almost 700 students participated in this activity.” (in comparison with 344 reports in 2019 - when Covid-19 had not happened) - Associate Professor Tran Quoc Binh said.

Student Nguyen Van Manh, Cohort 62 of the Faculty of Biology shared: “I am very delighted to participate in the Students’ Scientific Research. The process of conducting scientific research had given me the chance to learn new knowledge and research methods. Besides, I also had a chance to learn so much about different research approaches from lecturers".

According to the panel members of the 2021 Student Scientific Reports Assessing Session, the quality of students research this year were relatively high. Among the reports this year, 23 has the potential for being applied in practice, 15 have been published on both domestic and foreign scientific magazines, 6 of which have  are in the ISI/SCOPUS list.

Before that, to prepare for the online poster presentations, the university had set up material facilities and other favorable conditions to ensure that the online report would operate smoothly, providing students with a comfortable state of mind. Following the disease prevention requirements, members of the council cleansed their hands, wore masks and sat in suitable distance throughout the assessing process.

Based on the panel’s assessment, 10 reports won First Prize and 11 reports won Second Prize. Reports with the highest scores would be sent to the “Students scientific research contest” at VNU level and Ministry of Education and Traning level.

List of scientific reports that won the first prize at the HUS Student Scientific Contest 2021: