COMING SOON: CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

Contact Romi Burks, Program Chairman with questions.

114^th Annual Meeting

St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas
www.stedwards.edu

March 3-5, 2011

The 114^th Annual meeting of the Texas Academy of Science will be held at St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas during the first weekend of March (Thursday night reception, Friday talks and banquet, Saturday excursions).

This notice serves as a call for abstracts and all members are invited and encouraged to present some aspect of their scholarly work in a contributed presentation, contributed poster, or invited symposium. Each contributed presentation, poster, or symposium presentation requires an abstract. The abstracts and final program will be available online at the Texas Academy of Science web site prior to the meeting. Hard copies of the conference abstracts will be distributed for a fee of $5 to conference participants who choose to pay for a printed copy when they preregister. 

Program Chair & TAS President Elect - Dr. Romi Burks

Department of Biology

Southwestern University

Georgetown, TX 78762

PH: (512) 863-1280

e-mail:  burksr@southwestern.edu

Local Host - Dr. Cindy Naples

Professor and Interim Dean of Natural Sciences

St. Edward's University

Austin, TX 78704

PH: (512) 448-8686

e-mail: cynthian@stedwards.edu

Submission of Abstracts - Anticipated Deadline: Midnight, WEDNESDAY, December 15, 2010

After December 15, contact the Program Chair about submitting late-breaking abstracts.

Electronic submission of abstracts is required. More information about this will be forthcoming!

Notice of successful submission will be emailed to the author, the TAS Program Chair and the section chairmen. Please check junk mail for this notice and set tasadmin.texasacademyofscience.org to your safe senders list so that you will receive your emails from TAS.

Research presentations and posters will be considered in the sections listed below:

• Anthropology
• Biomedical
• Botany
• Cell and Molecular Biology
• Chemistry and Biochemistry
• Computer Science
• Conservation Ecology
• Environmental Science
• Freshwater Science
• Geosciences
• Marine Science
• Mathematics
• Physics
• Science Education
• Systematics & Evolutionary Biology
• Terrestrial Ecology and Management  

 

RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS

Research presentations will be 20 minutes in length. This normally includes a 17-18 minute oral presentation with 2 to 3 minutes for questions and discussion. Research presentations will be given during individual sessions in the areas of scientific interest above. Student presentations, by both graduate and undergraduate, are invited and encouraged in all areas of research.

All presentation rooms will be equipped with computers and data projectors capable of PowerPoint and Internet presentations. Presentations should be in PowerPoint format and stored on CD-Rom or USB drive. Other audio-visual equipment needs will be provided by special request only.

POSTERS

Posters displaying the results of scientific research, applied and theoretical, will be accepted on a space-available basis. Contributed posters must be designed to fit a bulletin board that is 36" tall and 48" wide.

Questions about this Call for Abstracts should be directed to the TAS Program Chair.

UPDATED 15 JULY 2010