Environmental Symposium

12^th Annual Undergraduate Symposium on Sustainability and the Environment

Saturday, December 7, 2013
Bridgewater State University

Conant Science & Mathematics Center

Guest Speaker: Dr. Peter Saundry, Executive Director of the National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE), Washington, DC.  The NCSE is a non-partisan organization of scientists, environmentalists, entrepreneurs, and policy makers working to improve the scientific basis of environmental decision-making.

National Council for Science and the Environment:  http://www.ncseonline.org/

Peter Saundry Bio Sketch:  http://www.ncseonline.org/peter-saundry-phd

Undergraduate research posters related to sustainability and the environment, in all disciplines are welcome! Geography has been under-represented at this event in the past, so please get your abstracts ready!

Abstracts must be submitted by Monday, November 25^th through the Symposium web page (the URL will be added HERE by November 6). Please note that the project can be proposed, in-progress, or completed work, and may also include classroom projects by individuals or teams of students.  

The Symposium provides an informal forum for the discussion of campus sustainability and environmental issues that cuts across multiple disciplines.  Each fall we host 40-50 undergraduate posters and over 100 students, faculty and guests representing public and private colleges and universities from the New England region. 

The $15 registration fee will be waived for all BSU students and faculty.  A continental breakfast and lunch are included.