2022 SCALACS Undergraduate/Graduate Research Symposium
The Red Planet and The Blue Planet: Past, Present and Future
November 5, 2022 | Beckman Institute Auditorium | California Institute of Technology
SCALACS Research Symposium was held on November 5, 2022, at the beautiful Beckman Institute Auditorium, Caltech. The Symposium started at 8:30 am and ended at 4:30 pm. Together with speakers, volunteers, and poster presenters, we had more than 60 attendees plus nine virtual attendees. Thank you to our honorable speakers: Professor G. K. Surya Prakash, Dr. Ellen Czaplinski, Professor Elias Picazo, Dr. Lawrence Wade, and Professor Pingyun Feng for speaking at the Research Symposium. Our heartfelt gratitude to the committee members who made this event possible: Thomas Mathew, Barbara Belmont, Robert De Groot, Richard Kidd, Brian Brady, Edye Udell, and Veronica Jaramillo. Thank you also to our diligent poster presenters and to all the willing volunteers who graciously lent their help on the event day.
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The Southern California Undergraduate Research Conference in Chemistry and Biochemistry is an annual event, held in the spring, to afford undergraduates in chemistry the opportunity to present their research results. The presentations can be either oral or a poster presentation. The host institution has the option of holding a competitive or a non competitive event. Past hosts have included USC, UCR, CSU Fullerton, Westmont College, CSU Dominguez Hills, Loyola Marymount, California Lutheran University, CSUN, Occidental College, Keck Science Center at the Claremont Colleges, Concordia University, and most recently, UC San Diego. This event is a major and costly operation (about $1,800 with $600 provided by the Southern California ACS Section). It is tradition that no fee will be charged for participation, and that the host institution provides hospitality in the form of meals and coffee at the beginning of the meeting. Hosts have financed the conference by soliciting donations from sources on and off campus. Undergraduates studying at California institutions from as far North as San Luis Obispo and as far South as San Diego are invited to participate by solicitation through their faculty mentors.
Contact Barbara Belmont if you are interested in hosting a future undergraduate research conference.