2009
Undergraduate Research
Summer Institute Symposium

September 30, 2009

Main Building, Villard Room

3:00 Introductory Remarks
Jon Chenette, Dean of the Faculty
Joseph Tanski, URSI Director
3:15 Students’ Oral Presentations on Summer Research

Margo Kinneberg, Vassar College '11 and Prof. Jenny Magnes
Get in Shape: Understanding How We Recognize Objects

Samuel Black, Vassar College '12 and and Prof. Erica Crespi
Eco-Immunology: Effects of Nutrition and Stress on Immune Function in Amphibians

Katie Interlichia, Vassar College '11, Jeremy Teperman, Vassar College '11 and Prof. Kirsten Menking
Killer Chloride: How the Casperkill is Becoming the World's Smallest Ocean

4:15 Keynote Address

The Revolution in Structural Biology and What it Means to You

Lawrence Shapiro, Associate Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics and Edward S. Harkness Eye Institute, Columbia University

5:15 Poster Session on Summer Research
7:00 – 8:30 Dinner for URSI Fellows and Faculty