2008 Symposium Schedule

Thursday, April 17

"Write On!" Competition Awards Ceremony

Time and location TBA

The eighth annual competition is open to all student writing produced in JMU undergraduate and graduate classes from the spring 2007, fall 2007 and spring 2008 semesters.

 

Thursday-Friday, April 17-18

The 33rd Annual Spring Undergraduate Chemistry Research Symposium

Speaker: Dr. Jonathan Dattlebaum ('95), "Sensors and Sponges: Studies of Ligand Binding and Sponge Secondary Metabolites"

1:15 p.m., Physics and Chemistry Building, Room 2212

Session I: Features 11 undergraduate talks, 2:30-5:30 p.m., Physics and Chemistry Building, Room 2212

Session II: Features 14 undergraduate talks, 1:15-5 p.m., Health and Human Services Building, Room 1210

 

Saturday, April 19

Madison Conference

Time and location TBA

Graduate students from the JMU English Department present their work and research to faculty and peers.

Keynote address by JMU English Professor Mark Facknitz, "Kitsch, Modernity, and the Deathworks."

 

Monday, April 21

Psychology Symposium

2-3:45 PM, first floor of Miller Hall

More than 80 posters will be presented by more than 100 students describing research, thesis, service learning and field placement projects completed by psychology majors this year.
 

 

Sociology and Anthropology Student Symposium

Time TBA

Room 114, Sheldon Hall.

 

Monday-Sunday, April 22-27

"JMU Undergraduate Art Exhibition"

Opening reception, April 21, 5-7 p.m.

Noon-5 p.m. Tuesday-Friday

2-5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday

Sawhill Gallery, Duke Hall

Presented by School of Art and Art History.

 

Friday, April 25

Graduate Psychology Research and Practice Symposium

 

Geology and Environmental Sciences Student Symposium

9:30 a.m.-3 p.m.

Room 6125, Memorial Hall.

The 2008 Student Research Symposium is a four-part program featuring 11 student projects on a variety of geological and environment-based investigations.  The program is free and open to the public.