Piedmont University’s Symposiums is held annually. It’s a chance for students to show off their knowledge and present their research. There are a variety of presentation topics from credit scores to social media.

Sophomore Environmental Science major, Waylin Boyd, presents his part of the class symposium to Dr. Debra Dooley and a symposium judge. Boyd, along with the rest of his Environmental Geology class took turns presenting their findings on the occurrence of natural disasters based on climate change.

Dr. Debra Dooley, an Earth Science professor at Piedmont University, smiles proudly at her students as they present their class symposium project. One of her current classes, Environmental Geology, presented on the topic of natural disasters and their occurrence based on climate change.