EXPO 2025

Celebrating research, scholarship, creative inquiry and community service

Participating in research, creative activities or community service projects can be one of the most important aspects of college life. When students and faculty work together on projects, students gain knowledge and training, and they learn skills that are important to employers and in graduate school.

Examples of some of those valuable skills include:

problem-solving.
teamwork.
communication.
project and time management.

At the College of Charleston, we encourage all students to engage in research and experiential learning activities. Each year, the university invites students to present their work to the campus community.

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Abstracts will be due Friday, February 14^th  at 5pm.

Students may submit ONE first author abstract submission. Students may serve as a co-author on an unlimited number of abstract submissions. Incomplete abstract submissions will not be reviewed.

The deadline for poster printing is Friday, March 28^th , 2025.

For more information and guidelines, please visit the new EXPO Hub Site.

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Expo 2025 Schedule of Events

EXPO 2025 will be held on Thursday, April 10, from 9 a.m. to noon in TD Arena (301 Meeting Street).

Poster Set-up  

8:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.  

Posters must be set up by 9 a.m.  

Welcome  

9:15 a.m.  

McAlister Hospitality Suite   

*All presenters please plan to attend. Breakfast will be served.  

Poster Presentations   

9:30 a.m. to 12:00 noon   

Floor of TD arena  

Oral Presentations   

9:30 a.m. – 10:50 a.m.   

McAlister Hospitality Suite   

School of the Arts Showcase   

11am – 12noon   

McAlister Hospitality Suite   

Keynote Presentation:

Timothy Barker, Ph.D.

School of Natural and Environmental Sciences

2024 William V. Moore Distinguished Teacher-Scholar Award Winner

12:15 p.m. 

McAlister Hospitality Suite   

Awards Ceremony   

1 p.m.   

McAlister Hospitality Suite   

This year’s keynote speaker is Tim Barker, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry, recipient of the College’s 2024 William V. Moore Distinguished Teacher-Scholar Award. Dr. Barker and his research students have been preparing organic compounds targeted to bind to the human serotonin transporter in hopes of developing an inhibitor as a new treatment for depression and related medical conditions. Computational studies are performed to help the lab target compounds that would bind in the active site. He will start out interpreting organic hieroglyphics that are used to describe organic molecules and then discuss how he and his research students go about preparing new compounds with possible medicinal applications in his presentation titled “Drug Discovery in Action: Using Logic and Problem-Solving in Organic Synthesis.”