AAAS SWARM DIVISION 2012 ANNUAL MEETING HIGHLIGHTS

This page will be updated throughout the course of the next 5 months as submissions are received and as the meeting program becomes finalized. Please check back occasionally for the latest developments with the 2012 program.

• General Poster Session
• Contributed Papers (grouped by general scientific discipline)
• John Wesley Powell Memorial Lecture (presented by Laurence Smith, Departments of Geography and Earth and Space Science, UCLA)
• Social Mixer
• Awards Banquet
• SWARM Presidential Address (presented by Austin Cooney, Baylor College of Medicine)
• Special Topic Symposia/Workshops

The list below represents the special topic symposium and workshop proposals received to date. This list will be expanded as symposium/workshop proposals are received. Several of the organizers of these symposia are soliciting submissions. If you have a presentation that you feel might be more appropriate in one of these symposia, as opposed to a contributed paper session, please email the name of the symposium you are Interested presenting in, your abstract and contact information
to: dtnash@gmail.com. Your request will be forwarded to the appropriate symposium organizer.

• Cedar Expansion on the Great Plains
• Innovations in Interdisciplinary Education in Health Professions
• Physiotherapy in Huntington's Disease
• Biotechnology
• Community Medicine
• NSF Student Research Fellowship Panel
• Endangered Species in Oklahoma
• Rainforest Ecology
• Un-Common Sense: The Prospects for Enhancing Research Ethics in an Era of a New and Improved Common Rule
• Increasing Regional Bioscience Research Capacity Through Outreach, Cooperation, and Internships
• Virus Ecology and Epidemiology
• Implementation of Engineering Curricula in Middle School
• Science/Math Interests and Attitudes 3-5th Grade Children
• Secondary Education Techniques
• SENSEsational Education Techniques
• Building Long-term University and Community School Partnerships
• Recent Applications and Techniques in Archaeology
• Midwestern Archaeology Lexicon
• Poverty and Social Determinants of Health
• Development and Application of Novel MRI Approaches for Investigating the Neurophysiological Correlates of Depression
• Hope among the Homeless: Health and Emotional Well-Being in At-Risk Populations
• The Pluripotent State: There and Back Again
• Science and Religion: Building Bridges, Dismantling Misconceptions
• Research Studies on Trauma, Abuse, and Neglect: From the Community to the Lab and Back Again
• Physiological Responses to Human Exercise Performance
• Biomedical Informatics