An Academic Symposium will include three short presentations by faculty-student collaborators:

Training bird, training students: Trial-and-error learning in the songbird brain and in the research lab:

• Faculty presenter: Nancy Day ’05, Assistant Professor of Psychology
• Student presenters: Meredith McBranch ’24, Psychology major; Sile Surman ’24, Psychology major

Curating "Mapping India: Colonialism, Nationalism, and the Partition of South Asia" at Maxey Museum:

• Faculty presenter: Krista Gulbransen, Associate Professor of Art History
• Student presenters: Amira Jain ’23, Film and Media Studies major; Issabella Zito ’23, Art History major

Bacteria to building blocks: synthesizing a sustainable future through biocatalysis:

• Faculty presenter: Jon Collins, Assistant Professor of Chemistry
• Student presenters: Grace Newman ’23, Biochemistry, Biophysics & Molecular Biology major; Aurora Anderson ’24, Chemistry major