Research Horizons Day to feature work of WVU Graduate Students

Morgantown, WV, March 26, 2006: Graduate students in the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences at West Virginia University will have the opportunity on April 5 to show off the results of all that hard work they do in the research laboratory, in the library, and in the field.

Research Horizons Day, an annual event, provides a forum for master's and doctoral candidates to present posters on their research in a public forum. More than 75 students from a wide variety of academic disciplines will participate in the open house on Thursday, April 5, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Mountainlair Ballrooms on WVU's Downtown Campus. Hors d'oeuvres will be served from 11:30 to 1:30. The event is free and open to the public.

Among the disciplines represented will be biology, chemistry, communication studies, English, geology, geography, history, mathematics, political science, psychology, and statistics. Research topics range from the productivity of Central Appalachian forests to detection of explosive biomarkers to ground water storage in flooded underground coal mines to the changing roles of women in the workforce.

"This is a wonderful event for our graduate students to present the results of their work," said Dr. Fred King, the Eberly College's Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies. "Every year I am overwhelmed by what our students have accomplished. Often, these are the same presentations that they have made to national and international audiences at meetings of their professional societies. Looking through the posters, you get a real sense of why they often have won awards for their work."

Dr. Steven Zdatny, Director of Graduate Studies for the Department of History commented, "Our doctoral students work very hard on their dissertations, spending hundreds of hours in libraries and archives. It is therefore always a welcome opportunity to share the fruits of that research with their colleagues in History and other graduate students in similar situations from across the University."

For more information on Research Horizons Day, please contact Dr. Fred King at Fred.King@mail.wvu.edu or 304-293-4611.

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