UVI’s Summer Science Research Symposium
UVI’s Summer Science Research Symposium Set for 1pm on Friday on St. Thomas Campus UVI students, faculty and staff, as well as the general public, are invited to attend the third Summer Science Symposium, scheduled for 1 to 3 p.m. on Friday, August 1, 2008. The symposium will take place in the first-floor conference room of the Administration and Conference Center on the St. Thomas campus. More than 20 students from the St. Thomas and St. Croix campuses will present the results of their research undertaken this summer. Some of the research topics include Coral-Algal-Herbivore Interactions in Reef Ecosystems, Coral Reef Ecology and Behaviors, Harvesting Breadfruit Leaf Tea, Heavy Metals and Dangerous Hydrocarbons in VI Cisterns, Fouling Release Marine Coating, and other interesting local research projects. …
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UVI’s Summer Science Research Symposium Set for 1pm on Friday on St. Thomas Campus UVI students, faculty and staff, as well as the general public, are invited to attend the third Summer Science Symposium, scheduled for 1 to 3 p.m. on Friday, August 1, 2008. The symposium will take place in the first-floor conference room of the Administration and Conference Center on the St. Thomas campus. More than 20 students from the St. Thomas and St. Croix campuses will present the results of their research undertaken this summer. Some of the research topics include Coral-Algal-Herbivore Interactions in Reef Ecosystems, Coral Reef Ecology and Behaviors, Harvesting Breadfruit Leaf Tea, Heavy Metals and Dangerous Hydrocarbons in VI Cisterns, Fouling Release Marine Coating, and other interesting local research projects. The Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE), the Summer Sophomore Research Institute (SSRI) and the Summer Bridge2Calculus programs are supported by the National Science Foundation's HBCU-UP program, the MARC program of the National Institutes of Health, and the Jones-Holloway-Bryan Foundation. The symposium is organized by UVI's Emerging Caribbean Scientists (ECS) Programs and the Science and Mathematics Division. For details, contact the ECS Programs at 693-1232 or ecs@uvi.edu. To learn more about information about ECS Programs' scholarship and research opportunities, please visit http//ecs.uvi.edu. Press release excerpt from the July 24, 2008 edition of the UVI Bulletin Board (http://www.uvi.edu/pub-relations/pressRelease/bb07202.html) managed by the University of the Virgin Islands.