Each year the Graduate School and the Graduate Student Senate host the Susan A. Siltanen Graduate Student Research Symposium. The symposium provides graduate students with an opportunity to present their research to faculty, staff and students in a friendly, competitive environment through oral and poster presentations. The symposium is designed to enhance the scholarly environment for graduate students and highlight the innovative and scholarship being done by Southern Miss graduate students. In addition, the Graduate Faculty Mentor of the Year and Graduate Assistants of the Year will be announced.

The Susan A. Siltanen Graduate Student Research Symposium will be held on Thursday, April 3, 10 -11:30 a.m. on the second floor of the Thad Cochran Center. Winners will be announced during the awards luncheon in the Thad Cochran Ballroom from noon to 1 p.m.