The next symposium (April 20, 2007) will be the 18th annual SJU Sigma XI Student Research Symposium held.  The series was started by Dr. Paul Tefft (current SJU Biology Chair) and Dr. Robert Cordero (now on the faculty of Holy Family College).  From the modest start with a few dozen posters, the symposium has continually grown, with each of the last four years setting records, both for the numbers of posters and the numbers of attendees.  The 16th symposium, held on April 22, 2005 as a joint meeting with the Eastern Colleges Science Conference, featured some 230 posters and more than 70 talks presented by some 600 students and faculty mentors from 60 colleges and universities in ten states. The abstract book from the last five symposia are available at the links below.  They are stored as Adobe pdf files.  You can download the free Acrobat reader by clicking on the “Get Acrobat” icon at the bottom of the page.

• Get the 2002 symposium abstract book here
• Get the 2003 symposium abstract book here
• Get the 2004 symposium abstract book here
• Get the 2005 symposium abstract book here
• Get the 2006 symposium abstract book here

Recent symposia have also featured world-renowned speakers. These include:

• 1999 - Nobel Laureate Arthur Kornberg, Stanford University
• 2000 - Pulitzer-Prize winning author Jonathan Weiner
• 2001 - Astrophysicist and author Dr. Philip and Phylis Morrison, MIT
• 2002 - Nobel Laureate Bill Philips, National Institute of Standards and Technology
• 2003 - Andrew von Eschenbach, Director, National Cancer Institute
• 2004 - Nobel Laureate Eric Wieschaus, Princeton University
• 2005 - Joy Crisp, Lead Project Scientist, NASA Mars Exploration Rovers
• 2006 - Kathleen McGinty, Esq., Secretary for the PA EPA.

We hope you will join us for the next symposium, scheduled for April 8, 2005.  The speaker will be Joy Crisp, Ph.D., led project scientist for the NASA Mars Rovers Projects.