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School of Natural & Social Sciences Student Symposium

The 30th Annual Natural & Social Sciences Student Symposium will take place on Saturday, April 30, 2011. 

Showcasing the Sciences at Purchase College:

Begun in 1981, the Symposium provides an opportunity for seniors to present their Senior Project research to a large audience of peers, alumni, family, faculty, and members of the community. Two concurrent sessions in Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Studies, Mathematics/Computer Science, Psychology, Economics, Anthropology, Sociology, Political Science, and Gender Studies take place throughout the morning, followed by a light refreshments. Seniors who participate in the symposium consider it a highlight of their undergraduate experience.

Here's what one past participant said about her experience:
"I highly recommend anyone who gets offered to be a presenter at the Natural Sciences Student Symposium to go for it. I wasn't sure if I should at first, but it was another great experience and it taught me a lot about public presentations, which are very important, especially in the research sciences." -Anne Houser

Information for Guests:

The public is warmly invited to attend the 2011 Symposium. Admission is free.

If you have not been to Purchase before, go to this map of the campus and click to get the full map. The Natural Sciences Building is building 21 on the map. Please park in parking lot W1.  Click here for directions to the campus.

The 30th Natural and Social Sciences Student Research Symposium Committee gratefully acknowledges the support of our symposiums' sponsors:

The Joseph & Sophia Abeles Foundation     
John Ambroseo, Ph.D. ('83 Chemistry) & Jeanette Ambroseo
BASF

Con Edison

Joshua Fink, M.D. ('82 Biology)

Ronen Marmur, M.D. ('90 Psychology)

The National Science Foundation

Purchase College CSTEP 

Carl Safina, Ph.D. ('77 Environmental Science)
Sigma Xi: The Scientific Research Society

Catherine Ziegler, Ph.D. ('96 Anthropology)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Catherine

Additional support provided by The Friends of Natural & Social Sciences and by the Purchase College Alumni.

Please contact the Symposium Chair, Dr. Peggy De Cooke (peggy.decooke@purchase.edu) for additional information regarding the 2011 NSS Symposium.