Some of Ithaca College’s brightest and most creative students will present their impressive research at the 19th Annual James J. Whalen Academic Symposium on Thursday, April 14.
Four hundred and twenty students representing 49 departments will participate by giving oral presentations or displaying posters and other creative works. There will be 326 presentations in total.
This year’s keynote address will be given by Professor of physics and astronomy Luke Keller and senior Madison Mangano. Keller and Mangano will present Mangano’s senior thesis, entitled “Listening to the Atoms and Molecules of Distant Solar Systems.” Her research focuses on the use of sonification – the transformation of light signals into audio signals – to analyze complex spectral data sets.
The symposium, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 8:30 a.m. with the opening ceremony and keynote address in Emerson A, followed by oral and poster presentations running concurrently throughout the Campus Center until the closing ceremony begins at 3:50 p.m. A full schedule can be found on the Whalen Symposium website.
Awards will be given to 16 presentations in seven different categories at the conclusion of the symposium. Student presenters hoping to win an award had to submit project abstracts for consideration. From that pool, 60 finalists were chosen by a faculty panel.
Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact Yvonne Rogalski at yrogalski@ithaca.edu or (607) 274-1206. We ask that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible.
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