February 13 - 14, 2003

17th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium

Given by the Office of Educational Outreach

Wednesday Evening, February 12, 2003 -- Participants may check into the Hilton Resort on Wednesday evening.
Conference packets will be available from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the registration table in the hotel lobby.


Thursday, February 13, 2003
7:30 - 5:00 pm Registration
7:30 - 8:20 am Poster presenters mount posters
8:30 - 8:45 am Welcome - Cary W. Cooper, Ph.D., Dean,
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
8:45 - 9:00 am Introduction - Victor E. Reyes, Ph.D., Chair,
Committee for Diversity in Graduate Education
9:00 - 10:15 am Student Paper Presentations (Session I)
10:15 - 10:30 am Break, visit recruitment display booths**
10:30 - 12:00 pm Student Paper Presentations (Session II)
12:00 - 1:30 pm Lunch - Levin Hall Faculty Dining Room
1:30 - 3:00 pm Orientation
 - Program Description
 - New GSBS Curriculum
 - Summer Undergraduate Research Program
 - Panel Discussion (Graduate Students)
3:00 - 4:00 pm General Campus Tour
4:00 - 6:00 pm Poster Session and Mixer sponsored by: GSBS Committee for Diversity in Graduate Education
6:00 pm On your own

Friday, February 14, 2003
7:30am - 12:00 pm Registration
9:00 - 10:30 am Student Paper Presentations (Session I)
10:30 - 10:45 pm Break, visit recruitment display booths**
10:45 - 12:00 pm Student Paper Presentations (Session II)
12:00 - 1:00 pm Lunch - Levin Hall Faculty Dining Room
12:00 - 3:30 pm Undergraduate Advisors Lunch and Round-Table Discussion Marie Hall Room, 4.626, School of Allied Health Sciences, Nursing Building
1:00 - 4:00 pm Specific Program Tours
1:00 - 2:00 pm Guest speaker will speak with local high school students
5:00 - 6:30 pm Awards Dinner - The Hilton Resort Ballroom
Keynote Speaker:  John F. Alderete, Ph.D.,
Professor in the Department of Microbiology at the University
of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
7:00 pm Limousine departs for Houston Hobby Airport from the hotel.

**Recruitment & vendor exhibits will be on display for the entire symposium