Junior Science, Engineering and Humanities Symposium
The Annual Missouri Regional Junior Science, Engineering and Humanities Symposium is held each spring at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Two hundred-fifty high school science students and sixty accompanying teachers will be invited to attend the three-day symposium. Expenses, including the hotel, meals, and symposium activities, will be provided for selected participants. Other interested and qualified individuals may attend on a self-paid basis for $145. The symposium begins Thursday at noon and lasts through Saturday noon.
Symposium Administration
Forms have been provided in either Word or Adobe "pdf" file format as well as general administrative information (abridged program, field trips, hotel, etc.).
Field Trips
Participants will have the opportunity to visit facilities of such groups as Alberici, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, Genome Sequencing Center, LMI Aerospace, Monsanto Company, Reliable Biopharmaceutical Corp., Sigma-Aldrich, Solutia Inc., or U.S. Army Corps of Engineering. Students and teachers are invited to these research-based groups to have lunch and talk informally with researchers, scientists and employees as part of the field trip activities.
Tours
Research open houses will be sponsored by the Departments of Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Psychology, Mathematics and Computer Science, and Computing and Telecommunications on the University of Missouri-St. Louis campus to give students an opportunity to acquaint themselves with the nature and scope of university research.
Lectures
Internationally-known speakers will challenge students with a wide range of topics within the scope of the scientific enterprise. Past lectures have included the Nobel Laureates Polykarp Kusch (Physics), George W. Beadle (Medicine and Physiology), George Wald (Medicine and Physiology), Lars Onsanger (Chemistry), Herbert Brown (Chemistry), Melvin Calvin (Biochemistry), Leon Cooper (Physics), Rosalyn S. Yalow (Medicine and Physiology), Leon Lederman (Physics), Henry Kendall (Physics), Richard Roberts, (Medicine and Physiology), Sheldon Glashow (Physics), Phillip Sharp (Physiology and Medicine), Joseph E. Murray (Physiology and Medicine), William S. Knowles (Chemistry), Ivar Giaever (Physics), and Jerome Friedman (Physics).
Challenging presentations have also been made concerning space travel, UFO's, plant emotions, the Bermuda Triangle, psychology of animals, biofeedback, psychical research, acupuncture and the search for the Loch Ness Monster. Other activities will include discussions, workshops, career counseling, mixers, and a banquet.
Student Paper
Students will have an opportunity to present papers on their own research and listen to papers presented by other students. Student papers will be judged by scientists on the quality and originality of research. Six student participants will be awarded a trip to the National Symposium at a leading university and a chance to compete with other students for a chance to attend the Science Fortnight, an international meeting of young scientists in London. Students are required to pay a registration fee and all other travel expenses for the trip are paid. Based on scholarship and science achievement, the six top regional student participants will be awarded scholarships.
You can become a part of the annual JSEHS program.
Any serious student who has conducted or is conducting a scientific study is eligible to apply for the symposium. Since participation is limited to 250 students, selection will be based on interest in or the conducting of a research project, school science activities, and scholastic average. Senior students that are able to submit completed research papers will be given first priority. Students interested in science, but who do not meet all of these criteria, can apply to attend on a self-paid basis. As a general rule, teacher participation will be based on the number of students selected with a ratio of five students per accompanying teacher from each applying school.
SOME IMPORTANT DATES
2012 JSEHS
March 15, 16, & 17, 2012
GROUP APPLICATION DUE
December 1
INDIVIDUAL APPLICATIONS DUE
(Abstracts should be sent with individual applications
if not previously sent with the Group Application)
January 20
PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE
(TWO Copies of Paper)
February 10
RETURN OF FEES
February 15
NATIONAL JSHS
May 2-6, 2012
Bethesda, Maryland
For applications or any questions please contact:
Dr. Charles R. Granger, Director
University of Missouri-St. Louis
One University Boulevard
St. Louis, MO 63121-4400
Tel: (314) 516-6226
Fax: (314) 516-6233
E-mail: granger@umsl.edu
or
Ms. Nancy K. Diley, Co-Director
University of Missouri-St. Louis
One University Boulevard
St. Louis, MO 63121-4400
Tel: (314) 516-6226
Fax: (314) 516-6233
E-mail: diley@umsl.edu
