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Contact: Julie Navejar
kajam03@tamuk.edu or 361-593-2590

Student researchers converge at symposium

KINGSVILLE (October 18, 2005) — Over 360 researchers will converge on Texas A&M University-Kingsville Friday and Saturday, Nov. 4-5, for the 3 rd annual Texas A&M University System Pathways Student Research Symposium. Over 360 students and faculty have signed up to attend the program with 287 student presentations accepted.

A&M-Kingsville is hosting this annual event that includes student researchers from all the schools in the A&M System.

The student research symposium is a spin-off of the Pathways to the Doctorate Program, which was developed to attract high achieving students within the System in order to produce some of the next generation of faculty.

“The Pathways Symposium is an excellent opportunity for undergraduate and graduate students to gain experience presenting their research,” said. Dr. Alberto Olivares, dean of the College of Graduate Studies and chair of the organizing committee. “The symposium allows the students to meet other students and faculty members from across the A&M System and be able to develop new ideas and collaborative research efforts.

“Ultimately, these connections and experiences will lead many of the student participants on to doctoral studies which is the goal of the Pathways to the Doctorate Program,” Olivares said.

The Pathways Symposium is hosted by a different System school each year to provide opportunities for faculty, graduate students and undergraduate students in the program to meet their peers and to learn about one another's schools, resources, research activities and community outreach.

Registration for the symposium begins at 1 p.m. Nov. 4 with the first presentation session from 2 to 4 p.m. All the presentations will take place on the second floor of the Memorial Student Union Building unless otherwise noted.

A lecture entitled Getting into Graduate School will be presented Friday from 3 to 3:45 p.m. and again from 10:30 to 11:15 a.m.

Visitation from the first poster presentation will be held from 4 to 5 p.m. Friday. Dinner begins at 6 p.m. in the ballrooms.

Saturday starts out with registration for the second poster presentation session at 8 a.m. At the same time there will be a forum for faculty entitled Undergraduate Research:
Cloning Successes and Addressing Obstacles in room 102 of Fore Hall. Dr. Robert Webb, professor of physics and associate dean for undergraduate research at Texas A&M University will make the presentation.

The second poster session begins at 9 a.m. with visitation at 11 a.m. The symposium will conclude with an awards presentation at noon Saturday. Monetary prizes will be awarded to the top presentations.

A&M-Kingsville has registered the most students with 75 graduate students and 34 undergraduates taking part in the symposium. Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi is bringing 18 graduate students and 10 undergrads.

In total, 113 undergraduates, 201 graduate students and 49 faculty members from around the System have signed up to attend or present at the symposium.

In addition to the Pathways Symposium, the Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) will hold a mini-symposium in the Blue Room of Fore Hall. They will have a meet and greet and welcome at 11 a.m. Friday by Shauntuan Coleman. She will talk about the mission and vision of the System LSAMP.

Carl Mack of the National Society of Black Engineers will speak at the luncheon at 11:30 a.m., and at 12:40 p.m. there will be a community building activity by the National Society of Black Engineers and the Society for Hispanic Professional Engineers.

At 5 p.m. Dr. Apurba Bhattacharya, associate chemistry professor at Texas A&M-Kingsville, will speak about Commonalities and Differences in Industry and Research Careers.

Saturday LSAMP will sponsor a student leadership workshop at 8 a.m. in the Blue Room.

For more information on the Pathways Student Research Symposium call 361-593-2095.

This page last updated 21 October, 2005