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EMU to celebrate "Salute to Excellence" Week

Eastern Michigan University honors its best and brightest during its annual Salute to Excellence Week, March 27-April 3. The celebration showcases EMU's outstanding faculty, staff and students.

A schedule of the Week of Excellence events follows. Unless otherwise noted, all events take place in the McKenny Union Ballroom.

SCIENCE DISCUSSION: Abhisek Sohni, an EMU
graduate student, discusses his poster presentation,
"The Role of Cyclooxygenaese Enzyme in
Respiratory Infection by Haemophilus Influenza," at
last year's Graduate Research Fair. This year's fair is
scheduled Monday, March 27.

The Graduate Research Fair is slated for Monday, March 27. The Graduate Research Fair, now in its eighth year, showcases outstanding research and creative projects by EMU graduate students. The fair will include oral presentations or poster/display sessions of: dissertation research, thesis research, independent study projects, capstone experiences or special projects, examples of art and music, and outcomes from practicum and internship experience.

"The Graduate Research Fair annually showcases graduate student scholarly and creative activity through oral and poster presentations in a conference-like format with concurrent and overlapping sessions. We have 165 presenters scheduled," said Deb deLaski-Smith, associate dean for Student Affairs and coordinator of the Graduate Research Fair.

Oral presentations begin at noon and will take place throughout McKenny Union. Poster presentations will be shown in McKenny Union's Guild Hall at 12:30 p.m., 2:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m.

This year's Graduate Research Fair also includes free morning seminars for undergraduate and graduate students to attend. The first workshop, "Job Search and Career Services," begins at 9 a.m. in McKenny Union's Tower Room. Six other workshops, as well as a book publisher's fair and graduate program advising, are scheduled at various locations in McKenny Union.

Dr. Peter Mancuso, an assistant professor of environmental health sciences at the University of Michigan, is the Fifth Annual Sigma Xi keynote speaker. He will present "Phat Hormones: The Emerging Role of the Adipokines in Health Care" at 7:30 p.m., in the Marshall Building Auditorium. For more information about the Graduate Research Fair, call Deb deLaski-Smith at 487-0048.