8:32 a.m., July 25, 2007--The 7th Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium will be held Wednesday, Aug. 8, in McKinly Laboratory and Wolf Hall.

The symposium is a showcase for summer undergraduate research students in the sciences, mathematics and engineering who will be presenting posters or making oral presentations detailing their research under the tutelage of UD faculty mentors.

The symposium begins with a plenary lecture, “Origins: Your Creative Research and Molecular Order,” at 11 a.m., in the auditorium of Wolf Hall. David Lynn, professor of biomolecular biology and chairperson of the Department of Chemistry at Emory University in Atlanta, will be giving the talk. Lynn is an internationally recognized researcher and teacher in the general areas of molecular recognition, bioorganic chemistry and chemical biology.

Following the lecture, poster displays and oral presentations will be open to the public on the ground floor of McKinly Lab starting at 1 p.m. Oral presentations will be held in room 061.

Schedule details can be found at
[www.udel.edu/chem/white/HHMI3/Summer07/S07symposium.html].

The symposium is the last event in the 2007 Summer Undergraduate Research Enrichment Program co-sponsored by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Undergraduate Science Education Program, the University of Delaware Chapter of Sigma Xi and the College of Arts and Sciences.

For information about last year's presentations, see [www.udel.edu/chem/white/HHMI2/Symp06/SympParticipants06.html].

For more information, call (302) 831-2908.