Minisymposia are the major activities of the OSU FORCE program!
(Jesse Wallace, Marta Jarzyna, Natacha Ruiz, Matt Anderson, Zakee Sabree and Courtney Robinson; 2022)
WHAT IS IT?
OSU collaborates with a partner university (HBCU, HSI, women’s college/university) to host a half-to-full day event that consist of the following:
-Faculty and postdocs from OSU and host institution give short research talks accessible to the general public
-OSU faculty, postdocs and graduate students participate in an academic careers and pathways forum with host institution’s undergraduate and graduate students
-OSU faculty and postdocs meet with host institutions faculty to discuss ways to collaborate on research, teaching and recruitment
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For more details on what a minisymposium looks like, check out one of the past minisymposia (links to pages below)
Past Minisymposia
2018 Howard University – OSU Ecology and Evolutionary Sciences Minisymposium
2019 Howard University – OSU Ecology and Evolutionary Sciences Minisymposium
2022 Howard University-OSU Ecology and Evolutionary Sciences Minisymposium
2022 Spelman College-OSU Biological Sciences Minisymposium
2022 Agnes Scott College-OSU Biological Sciences Minisymposium