One hundred and thirty-two students shared the fruits of their research with the local and academic community on Thursday in the fifth annual Undergraduate Research Forum at the Ohio Union Ballrooms on Thursday.Ohio State’s Office of Research and the University Honors and Scholars Center hosted this year’s Richard J. and Martha D. Denman Undergraduate Research Forum which contains nine research categories, including agricultural sciences, behavioral medicine, biological sciences, engineering sciences, health sciences, humanities, performing and visual arts, physical sciences and mathematics, as well as social and behavioral sciences.”All undergraduate research areas will be presented in the form of videotape, posters, multimedia presentations and performance,” said David J. Strauss, assistant director of University Honors and Scholars Center. “This is an great opportunity for students to present their incredible research projects in a public setting and it is also a wonderful way to encourage other students to present undergraduate research.”Mark A. de Groh, a senior history major, is the only participant who has two research presentations in this year’s forum. His research projects include the development of the legal profession in Tudor and Stuart England.Stephanie A. Beier, a senior nursing major in the social and behavioral science and education category, has done research on women’s attitudes about abortion, histories of pregnancy and abortion and contraceptive use.”My research is based on the results of a anonymous survey which was investigated by STD clinics in Baltimore. One-hundred and eight African-American women at the reproductive age, which is about 15 to 44 years old, took the survey in 1993,” Beier said. “This is a old survey, but I don’t think things have changed too much these days.”According to Beier, 77 percent of the women thought the abortion should be legal and about 75 percent thought if they became pregnant without planning to have a baby, they would not have abortion.”I think it is an interesting finding. Those women wanted the right of abortion, but if they were in that situation themselves, they probably would not choose to have abortion,” she said.A group of 50 volunteer faculty from different colleges in the university chose the final winners.”The faculty judges will pick up the first, the second, the third and also the honorable mention from each category after they have evaluated all the undergraduate research presentations,” said Linda K. Meadows, assistant vice president of Office of Research.The cash prizes would be given to each of the final categories and the research advisers of the winning entries would receive an award as well, Strauss said. With a 40 percent increase for the number of the research participants this year, Strauss said the undergraduate research forum would not have been possible without the contributions and donations from the Denmans.