The National Conference for Undergraduate Research (NCUR) in the USA is a yearly run conference aimed to promote research conducted by undergraduate students. The 25th NCUR was held at Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York State from March 31st to April 4th 2011 and I was fortunate enough to attend. There was approximately 4000 presentations given by undergraduates and I was given the opportunity to present two. The first was an oral presentation of the research carried out in the Computational Physics Group; titled “Computer Modelling of Soft-Nanostructures”. The second was a poster presentation of UCLan’s Undergraduate Research Society; which is a society set up by myself and other UCLan students of which I am the chair. The conference was set out to consist of 10 sessions and in each of these sessions there was approximately 52 different classrooms across the campus each with 4 oral presentations in and at the…