SSD will include 600 student presenters

More than 600 student presenters will participate in Student Scholars Day on Wednesday, April 13.

This year marks the 20th anniversary of SSD, which showcases faculty-mentored student research and creative work. Oral and poster presentations will run from 9 a.m.-8 p.m. in Henry Hall, Kirkhof Center and the Mary Idema Pew Library. Art exhibitions of 2D, 3D and multimedia work will be displayed at the Red Wall Gallery in Lake Ontario Hall and in the library's Exhibition Space. An artists reception, also open to the public, begins at 5:30 p.m. in the exhibition space.

Susan Mendoza, director of the Office of Undergraduate Research and Scholarship, said 70 diverse majors and disciplines will be represented at SSD. More about the event, including a schedule of presentations, is online at www.gvsu.edu/ours/ssd. A new online feature is a schedule builder that allows students, faculty and staff members to search and select the presentations they want to see, then add them to Outlook calendar.

The day concludes with a keynote address by David Wineland, from the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colorado.

Wineland's presentation, "Quantum Computers and Schrodinger's Cat," will begin at 7 p.m. in the Kirkhof Center, room 2204. Wineland received the Nobel Prize in physics in 2012 for his experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulating individual quantum systems. Refreshments will be available at 6:30 p.m.