SOMERVILLE NATIVE TO PARTICIPATE IN RESEARCH DAY AT STATE CAPITOL

  

An engineering student originally from Somerville has been chosen to be a part of a prestigious event at the Texas State Capitol.

Robert Presley Smith, a senior at the University of North Texas who is studying mechanical and energy engineering, has been selected to take part in the Texas Undergraduate Research Day at the Capitol.

Smith is only one of 75 students chosen to participate in Texas Undergraduate Research Day event. The event allows students to show off their work, tour the Capitol, as well as observe their respective legislators.

Smith grew up in Somerville and is currently part of UNT’s Honors College and McNair Scholars Program.

He is currently researching how to create electricity by using temperature difference. Smith will present this work at the Texas National McNair Scholars Research Conference, which will be held Feb. 17-18 at UNT, and then again at the Texas Undergraduate Research Day in Austin March 28.

Smith is a first generation college student who is set to graduate in May and then plans to pursue a master’s degree at UNT.

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