I was there for the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students. Some of the presenters were Dr. Irene Pepperberg, who spoke about her research on cognitive and communicative abilities of Grey Parrots, Neil deGrasse Tyson, the director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York, and Maya Angelou was the keynote speaker on Saturday. They were all great, but Maya Angelou just brought the house down talking about the importance of art within the scientific communities. Very inspiring.
Here are a few more pictures. I wish I could have seen more of Charlotte, but I was really busy with the conference. I was a little surprised that food and such was so expensive, but I was in the arts and conference center area. I tried to find some music, but the only night I had free, it was mostly rock bands types in our area.