W&M to host 11th Annual Graduate Research Symposium
Graduate Research Symposium Students, faculty, staff -- and even President Taylor Reveley (gray suit, top left) -- explore the posters at last year's Graduate Research Symposium. Photo by Barbara Pearsall
Graduate Research Symposium Students interact during last year's Graduate Research Symposium. Photo by Stephen Salpukas
The 11th Annual Graduate Research Symposium will be held at the Sadler Center at William & Mary March 23-24.
The two-day, broadly themed academic conference is designed to bring together graduate students in differing areas of study in the Arts & Sciences.
The symposium will include 149 total graduate student lectures and poster presentations. Graduate students from each of the College’s 11 Arts & Sciences graduate programs and 43 presenters from 18 visiting institutions – including, Clemson, Georgetown University, the University of North Carolina, Temple University and Virginia Commonwealth University -- will give presentations on their current research in fields ranging from American studies to physics.
Up to $5,700 will be given in awards for excellence in scholarship in the humanities and social sciences and in the natural and computational sciences. Also, up to $1,250 will be given in awards for excellence in undergraduate mentoring in the humanities and social sciences and in the natural and computation sciences.
The symposium is hosted by William & Mary's Graduate Student Association of Arts & Sciences and the Arts & Sciences Office of Graduate Studies and Research. It is free and open to undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, staff, alumni and the public.
For more information, visit http://www.wm.edu/as/graduate/researchsymposium/index.php.
