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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#4F6228">Apply to attend or share with the appropriate colleagues on your campus.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#885F2C">Beginning a Research Program in the Natural Sciences at a Predominantly Undergraduate Institution Institute</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong>Next Offering: </strong>November 21-23, 2014 - Embassy Suites - Greensboro, Greensboro, NC<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong>Application Deadline:</strong> September 26, 2014<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Starting a successful research program and doing scholarly work at a predominantly undergraduate institution pose unique challenges for a beginning faculty member. A goal of the institute
is to give individual pre-tenured faculty members the opportunity to learn from and discuss with experienced faculty how to establish and manage a research program with undergraduates. While at the institute, participants will also prepare plans for starting
and/or advancing their individual research programs at their respective campuses. A range of topics will be covered during the institute that show ways to achieve career success in undergraduate research by learning how to:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">· select undergraduate researchers,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">· mentor student researchers and develop and use their research skills,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">· manage time - balancing teaching, research and service activities,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">· develop and select research projects appropriate for undergraduates,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">· adapt to an undergraduate research environment vs. that in graduate school,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">· link research to the classroom, and</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">·develop grantsmanship skills related to gaining external and institutional research support.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><em><span style="color:#4F6228">“Meeting other young faculty from similar institutionsý, learning about case studies in which research was integrated in classroom settings, learning about funding opportunities and strategies to improve grant writing success
were all high points.”</span></em><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><em><span style="color:#4F6228">“This is a great workshop and I learned so much. Definitely one of those career changing meetings for me. Thank you so much for this opportunity!”</span></em><o:p></o:p></p>
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