Calling all past and present students! Our 2017 Spring Student Symposium is scheduled for April 28th at 6:00 pm in the Pippin Conference Room of Mellvill Hall on the University of Wisconsin – Richland campus. The Student Symposium is an opportunity for past and current students to publicly present their research (or artistic endeavor) to the general community. Each presentation lasts between 10 to 30 minutes (depending on type), not including a brief question and answer period. The Symposium is promoted through all of all local area venues, and is often filmed for our local access television. The public is always invited and encouraged to attend.
No matter what level you are at (undergraduate, graduate, or post-graduate), we would like to invite you to submit a proposal to our campus Student Symposium committee as soon as possible. If you have completed (or are working on) a research project, a performance piece, or an artistic piece of any kind, and if it will be ready by the end of April 2017, please send me an email. If you are working on a long term project that may not be completed for another year or more, you may still be able to present a “progress report” during which you explain the project to the community and solicit feedback. Also, if you have created a poster (or some other static medium to communicate research), please contact us and we can set those up around the Symposium venue space.
The Student Research Symposium began eight years ago as an opportunity for past students to come back to campus and present their research to current students. The goal was to expose our current students to examples of where they may be finding themselves in just a few short years. Over time, the symposium grew to include as many current students as former students. Now that our campus offer Bachelors Degrees, many of our Seniors are required to present their senior Capstone project to the community, and this Symposium has become a very convenient forum for that purpose. This Spring, we will have at least one graduating BAAS student (Emily Zorea) presenting her Capstone Project to the Community. In addition, we already have three other freshmen and sophomores who are scheduled to present.
Space is not unlimited, but there are several slots still available. Please send an email to aharon.zorea@uwc.edu as soon as you are able. Please include a working title for your presentation (or poster or art piece), and short description of the topic. Later, we will need a brief biography to be included in the evening’s program.
If you are not interested in presenting, please plan on attending. The UW-Richland Foundation generously provides refreshments, and the programs are usually quite interesting. Please support our current and former students by joining us for the evening. Typically, the program is completed by 8pm or 8:30pm.
