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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Please share this information with appropriate faculty who may want to recruit undergraduate researchers for the conference presentation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Monotype Corsiva";color:#1F497D">Dr. Linda Mason<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Coordinator of Grant Writing
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">655 Research Parkway, Suite 200<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Oklahoma City, OK 73104<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">405-225-9486 desk<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">405-706-8757 cell<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">405-225-9230 FAX<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="mailto:lmason@osrhe.edu">lmason@osrhe.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.okhighered.org/grant-opps/">www.okhighered.org/grant-opps/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> cur@cur.org [mailto:cur@cur.org]
<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 11, 2017 10:56 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Mason, Linda<br>
<b>Subject:</b> CUR URPD 2017 Submission Deadline is Fast Approaching<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p>Greetings Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>This summer’s Undergraduate Research Programs Conference, June 26-28, 2017, at Northern Arizona University (NAU) in Flagstaff, has two important, upcoming deadlines:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>1) Don’t forget to submit your abstract by January 17th: <a href="https://members.cur.org/members_online/submissions/substart.asp?action=welcome&cid=198">
https://members.cur.org/members_online/submissions/substart.asp?action=welcome&cid=198</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p>2) Register by April 24th for a discount: <a href="http://members.cur.org/members_online/utilities/emailct.asp?ad6ac67abdefda9289cb1dcf56f1084519ac66fd280ed7e74cd3ac0f17606a8a6954a4dbdb4c4a2a">
http://members.cur.org/members_online/registration/register.asp?mt=URPD17&af=CUR</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p>CUR will also be offering a limited number of small travel grants to subsidize the cost of attending. Please see
<a href="http://www.cur.org/conferences_and_events/cur_conference_grants/">http://www.cur.org/conferences_and_events/cur_conference_grants/</a> for eligibility and application instructions. The deadline to apply is March 29, 2017.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong>UR Programs: Undergraduate Research Collaborations 2017</strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p>This 1½ day conference is aimed at faculty and academic professionals interested in the improvement, management, and promotion of undergraduate research and creative activities. Faculty, undergraduate research program directors, and administrators will
share ideas, strategies, and best practices around six themes.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Session Themes<o:p></o:p></p>
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<strong>Assessment</strong>: Strategies for evaluating undergraduate research projects, using data to improve the experience or providing feedback for funding support.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<strong>Diversity in Research</strong>: Effective strategies for promoting diversity-serving undergraduate research, undergraduate research that informs diversity issues, collaborations that have brought in diverging perspectives to undergraduate research.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<strong>High Impact Learning Strategies</strong>: Methods, approaches, courses and practices that have proven very effective in achieving learning outcomes that incorporate undergraduate research. This can include the retooling of existing courses, applied
research in courses and imbedded research projects within courses.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<strong>Internationalization</strong>: Incorporating an international element to undergraduate research, including research-based travel, media-assisted collaboration, data exchange or the mechanics of organizing an international undergraduate research component.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<strong>Undergraduate Research Administration and Budgeting - Nuts and Bolts</strong>: Approaches that have proven effective in managing and organizing undergraduate research and/or in funding the means by which the research can be undertaken. Budgeting innovations,
successful central strategies, institutional support etc. are all applicable.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<strong>Undergraduate Research Collaborations</strong> : Examples of effective partnerships with undergraduate researchers, pairing strategies, team projects, the ethics of collaboration in undergraduate research.<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<p>For more information, including the conference “schedule at a glance”: <a href="http://www.cur.org/conferences_and_events/ur_programsundergraduate_research_collaborations_2017/">
http://www.cur.org/conferences_and_events/ur_programsundergraduate_research_collaborations_2017/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Thank you and see you soon,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Vanessa McRae and Kimberly Reiter<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Conference co-chairs<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>(For conference questions or concerns: Vanessa McRae <a href="mailto:vanessa.mcrae@ucf.edu">
vanessa.mcrae@ucf.edu</a> or Kimberly Reiter <a href="mailto:kreiter@stetson.edu">
kreiter@stetson.edu</a>)<o:p></o:p></p>
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