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Show Anderson to report on his research 4 - " i v undergraduates will attend the meeting with students and professors pro-fessors from more than 200 colleges and universities. "Kevin has showed a lot of creativity in his work," said Mathews. "He has learned graduate-level skills in developing the tools to do the project." A recipient of two U. of U. engineering engi-neering scholarships, Anderson has a 3.7 GPA. He works part-time as an electrical technician for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Latter-day Saints at the Temple Square visitor center. The conference promotes undergraduate research, scholarship and creative activity done in partnership part-nership with faculty or other mentors. men-tors. Utah will host the meeting in March 1993. A 1985 Viewmont High School graduate will report on original research re-search at the sixth National Conference Con-ference on Undergraduate Research at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis March 26-28. Kevin G. Anderson, son of Richard G. and Rhea Anderson, 555 N. Davis Blvd., Bountiful, is a senior in electrical engineering at the University of Utah. He will make a 20-minute oral presentation on "A Nonlinear Model for Data Compression." Anderson adapted computer techniques to transmit or store human speech faster and more efficiently. effi-ciently. Working in partnership with Dr. V. John Mathews, associate associ-ate professor of electrical engineering, engineer-ing, Anderson spent a year on the signal processing project sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Founda-tion. "Dr. Mathews is very helpful and good to work with," says Anderson. "He really pushes you. At the conference, I look forward to talking to some of the other faculty about my research." Eleven U. KEVIN G. ANDERSON |