The Minnesota Academy of Science 2003 Annual Meeting and Winchell Symposium launched new partnerships and
collaborations when they convened on the University of Minnesota's St. Paul Campus in April, 2003. Tri-Beta
(a biology honor society) and the Minnesota Section of the American Chemical Society joined the Academy as
co-sponsors of the event which brought together outstanding undergraduate researchers and professional scientists
from a breadth of disciplines. Approximately 230 people gathered for the forum which included presentations of
research in the Professional Symposia and the Winchell Undergraduate Research Symposium as well as a keynote
address by Craig Packer, Distinguished McKnight Professor of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior at the University
of Minnesota.
The Professional Symposia included the presentation of 42 papers in the areas of Bioinformatics, Business and
Economics, Environmental Health in the 21st Century, Geography, and Soil and Water Conservation. Students from
a myriad of Minnesota colleges and universities participated in the Winchell Undergraduate Research Symposium,
presenting their own research in 50 papers and 60 Posters which were evaluated on the quality of the abstract,
the research presented and the quality of the presentation. The author of the award-winning book Into Africa and
more than 80 scientific articles, Professor Packer spoke to the assembly on Viruses of the Serengeti: Protecting
People and Wildlife from a Common Enemy.
Abstracts of the research presented at the Annual Meeting were published in Volume 67, Number 1 of the Journal of
the Minnesota Academy of Science.
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