NURDS - 4th Annual Northeast Undergraduate Research and Development Symposium

March 10 and 11, 2012

Undergraduate students studying biology, chemistry, physics, environmental science, or any other related natural science in the New England region and Atlantic Canada are invited to attend NURDS 2012.

This NSF-supported conference promotes “scientific exploration through peer collaboration”. Created, organized and run by undergraduate and graduate students, the symposium will provide a comfortable environment for undergraduate students to present their research.

This research may have been done as an independent project, honors thesis, or senior thesis. Students can present their research as an oral presentation, poster or data blitz before an audience of peers. This is an excellent forum for students to get valuable feedback as well as develop meaningful scientific discussions between students from multiple universities.

At last year's NURDS symposium more than 200 students from 40 different universities attended. Students came from as far south as Connecticut, as far west as Vermont, and as far north as Halifax, Nova Scotia!

Don't miss this year's NURDS symposium.

The keynote address will be given by Dr. Michael Grace, Ph.D., Associate Professor at the Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida.

We will accept presentations that fulfill the definition of undergraduate research as stated by the Council of Undergraduate Research, CUR: "An inquiry or investigation conducted by an undergraduate student that makes an original intellectual or creative contribution to the discipline."

Faculty mentors are welcome to attend the oral and/or poster presentations.

NURDS 2012 is funded through the NSF grant DUE-0726749, PI M. Frederich, Ph.D.

The symposium will be held at the UNE Biddeford campus in southern Maine.