{"id":1420,"date":"2014-11-14T09:44:09","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T09:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/?p=1420"},"modified":"2023-09-26T13:35:20","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T13:35:20","slug":"2nd-annual-sigma-xi-symposium-a-huge-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/2014\/11\/14\/2nd-annual-sigma-xi-symposium-a-huge-success\/","title":{"rendered":"2nd Annual Sigma Xi Symposium a Huge Success!"},"content":{"rendered":"

On November 13, the Longwood University\/Hampden-Sydney College Chapter of Sigma Xi hosted the\u00a02nd annual Sigma Xi Research Symposium.\u00a0 Sigma Xi is an honorary research society that promotes excellence in scientific investigation in all fields of the life and physical sciences.\u00a0 The\u00a0Symposium was held at Longwood University’s Chichester Science Center and featured a keynote speaker and poster presentations by undergraduate students from both institutions.\u00a0\u00a0Dr. Pieter deHart, Assistant Professor of Biology at the Virginia Military Institute, delivered the Symposium’s keynote address entitled “\u201cFeeding the Beast:\u00a0 Explorations into the Feeding Ecology of Apex Predators.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0This engaging talk focused on work that Dr. deHart has conducted with several undergraduate students at VMI and included ecological studies on the feeding habits of a wide variety of predators, ranging from praying mantids to coyotes.\u00a0 Following\u00a0his keynote address, Dr. deHart interacted with several students during the Symposium’s poster session, which\u00a0featured research\u00a0conducted by undergraduates\u00a0at both\u00a0Hampden-Sydney College and Longwood University.\u00a0 12 H-SC students and 13 Longwood University students from the Departments of Biology and Chemistry presented their work, and this session provided an excellent opportunity for close interaction and sharing of ideas\u00a0between students and faculty from both institutions.\u00a0 To follow up on the success of the Symposium, Hampden-Sydney College will host an initiation ceremony in Spring 2015 for the induction of new student and faculty members to the Society.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Keynote speaker Dr. Pieter deHart delivering his address to a full house!<\/p><\/div>\n

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Just a sample of predators studied by Dr. deHart and his collaborating students!<\/p><\/div>\n

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Longwood University student Jessica Littlefield presenting her research to Dr. deHart<\/p><\/div>\n

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Jefferson Thompson ’16 (middle) presenting his summer research on free readicals to Myshake Abdi ’16 and Wes Eure ’16<\/p><\/div>\n

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Jay Brandt ’15 presenting his research on immune responses to melanoma to James Lau’17<\/p><\/div>\n

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Stephen Woodall ’15 explaining his research on prostate cancer to Dr. Nick Deifel from the H-SC Chemistry Department<\/p><\/div>\n

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Daniel Osarfo-Akoto ’15 learning about NKG2D signaling in T cells from Longwood University student and tumor immunologist Kelsey Trace<\/p><\/div>\n

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Several Longwood students presenting research conducting through the University’s PRISM Summer Research Program<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On November 13, the Longwood University\/Hampden-Sydney College Chapter of Sigma Xi hosted the\u00a02nd annual Sigma Xi Research Symposium.\u00a0 Sigma Xi is an honorary research society that promotes excellence in scientific investigation in all fields of the life and physical sciences.\u00a0 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2102,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions\/2102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}