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San Francisco State University Science showcase this Friday

 

 

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Denize Springer
SFSU Office of Public Affairs & Publications
(415) 405-3803
(415) 338-1665
denize@sfsu.edu

Press Release published by the Office of Public Affairs & Publications

 


Three-hundred students explain their engineering feats, scientific discoveries

WHAT:
See 149 cutting-edge San Francisco State student projects in biology, chemistry, computer science, astronomy, physics, engineering, math, geosciences, environmental studies and health. Posters, exhibits and demonstrations include robot firefighters, the nuclear DNA variation of lobsters, hydroelectric batteries, ghost particles, new planets and concrete canoes. Students compete for $6,000 in cash prizes.

WHO:
Three hundred undergraduate and graduate students from the SFSU College of Science and Engineering. John Monteverdi, professor of meteorology, will give a short presentation titled "Field Tornado Research: A Trip into Nature's Maw."

WHEN:
3p.m. to 7:30p.m., Friday, May 6th, 2005

WHERE:
San Francisco State University Gym, rooms 100 and 118, 1600 Holloway Avenue (at 19th Avenue), San Francisco

FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Visit www.sfsu.edu/~science or contact Lannie Nguyen-Tang at (415)338-7662 or science@sfsu.edu.

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