BLOOMINGTON, Ill. – The annual John Wesley Powell Student Research Conference will be held at Illinois Wesleyan University on Saturday, April 10 from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. across campus, featuring keynote speaker and chemist Timothy Zwier.
The event is free and open to the public.
The day will be dedicated to student research, whether through poster and oral presentations, music performances or art displays. A unique opportunity for undergraduates to be recognized for their research endeavors, the 2010 conference will include presentations from a broad range of disciplines. In the past, these have included posters from students in fields such as economics, environmental studies, Greek and Roman studies, theatre, biology and business administration. Research posters will be displayed in morning and afternoon sessions along with 10 sessions of 15-minute oral presentations.
The day’s keynote speaker will be the M. G. Mellon Distinguished Professor of Chemistry Timothy Zwier of Purdue University, who will speak at 1:30 p.m. in Anderson Auditorium of the Center for Natural Sciences (CNS) (201 Beecher St., Bloomington). His speech is entitled “The Happy Marriage Between Laser and Supersonic Expansion.”