Each spring the Biology Department hosts a celebration of undergraduate research in which students that conducted research over the previous year present their findings through poster or oral presentations.  In addition, we invite a previous presenter in this series who has gone on in research to give a keynote seminar.  Posters from the event can be seen on the walls of Burruss Hall throughout the year.  This year 78 students and 22 faculty members presented posters or gave talks!  The complete schedules for Thursday and Friday are posted.

 

Keynote speaker Dr. Joe Mettenburg (right) poses with his former undergraduate research mentor,
Dr. Bruce Wiggins, after Joe presented the keynote seminar "Beta-Amyloid Peptide Interactions with Alpha-2-macroglobulin: Implications in Understanding and Treating Alzheimer Disease." 

Dr. Mettenburg graduated from JMU in 1997 and received
a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 2005.