100th Annual Meeting - Agenda
Saturday, April 18, 2026
8:00 – 10:30 AM
Registration & Continental Breakfast
Poster Session 1 Set-Up
Ballroom Foyer
9:00 – 9:05 AM
Welcoming Remarks
Dr. Deanna Schmitt, Past President, West Virginia Academy of Sciences
Ballroom
9:05 – 10:00 AM
Keynote Address – “The Brightest Pulses In The Universe”
Dr. Duncan Lorimer, Department of Physics and Astronomy, West Virginia University
Ballroom
10:00 – 10:30 AM
Distinguished Service and Outstanding Teacher Awards Presentation
Ballroom
10:30 – 11:10 PM
Poster Session 1 (Posters 1 – 40)
Ballroom Foyer
11:10 – 11:20 AM
Poster Session 2 Set-Up
Ballroom Foyer
11:20 – 12:00 PM
Poster Session 2 (Posters 41 – 80)
Ballroom Foyer
12:00 – 1:00 PM
Lunch
Ballroom
12:10 – 1:00 PM
WVAS Annual Business Meeting
Summersville Room
1:00 – 3:15 PM
Oral Presentations Session 1
Reptilian biology and ecology
Bluestone Room
Oral Presentations Session 2
Appalachian ecology
Gauley Room
Oral Presentations Session 3
STEM
Summersville Room
Oral Presentations Session 4
Biomedical Science, Microbiology, Anthropology, and Physiology
Tygart Room
Oral Presentations Session 5
Amphibians and Data Science
Sutton Room
2:00 – 2:15 PM
Afternoon Coffee Break
Ballroom Foyer
3:30 – 4:00 PM
Student Awards Presentation
Stonewall Ballroom
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