MOUNT VERNON — The seventh annual Cornell College Student Symposium will feature research by 70 students — the largest number to present at the campus symposium — on Saturday, April 12, from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at The Commons. Admission is free to the event, which is open to the public.
“The Student Symposium serves as a venue for some of our most engaged and accomplished students to share their work with the broader campus community and others, and it demonstrates the remarkable range of interests being productively pursued in and beyond the classroom at Cornell,” said Dennis Damon Moore, dean of the college.
Topics include implicit memory in pigeons, cross-cultural dating preferences and measuring the wind.
The symposium, which originated as a way to spark intellectual conversation and growth on campus, is one of the premier events at Cornell. This year, 70 students worked with 30 faculty members in 18 different departments and programs. Presentations will take one of two formats: lectures of about 20 minutes apiece summarizing projects and their findings, at four sessions in Hedges Conference Room, Harlan Dining Room and the Rathskeller (9 a.m., 10:45 a.m., 1:15 p.m., 2:40 p.m.), and poster presentations offering visual displays of projects along with explanatory comments, at two sessions (9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 3:30 p.m.) on the Orange Carpet.
Following the symposium, Cornell’s Delta of Iowa chapter of Phi Beta Kappa will hold its annual induction ceremony at 3:45 p.m. in Harlan Dining Room. Thirteen students have been selected for membership based on academic potential, scholarship, creativity, professional attitude and character. Phi Beta Kappa considers members from the top 15 percent of the senior class and the top 5 percent of the junior class. Phi Beta Kappa is the oldest and most widely respected academic honorary society in the United States. A reception will follow the ceremony.