[Okgrantsmanship] CUR Undergraduate Research Programs Conference deadline 2017 Submission Deadline is Fast Approaching

[Mason, Linda]

Please share this information with appropriate faculty who may want to recruit undergraduate researchers for the conference presentation.

Dr. Linda Mason
Coordinator of Grant Writing
Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education
655 Research Parkway, Suite 200
Oklahoma City, OK 73104
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405-706-8757 cell
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lmason at osrhe.edu<mailto:lmason at osrhe.edu>
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From: cur at cur.org [mailto:cur at cur.org]
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2017 10:56 AM
To: Mason, Linda
Subject: CUR URPD 2017 Submission Deadline is Fast Approaching


Greetings Colleagues,

This summer's Undergraduate Research Programs Conference, June 26-28, 2017, at Northern Arizona University (NAU) in Flagstaff, has two important, upcoming deadlines:

1)      Don't forget to submit your abstract by January 17th: https://members.cur.org/members_online/submissions/substart.asp?action=welcome&cid=198

2)      Register by April 24th for a discount: http://members.cur.org/members_online/registration/register.asp?mt=URPD17&af=CUR<http://members.cur.org/members_online/utilities/emailct.asp?ad6ac67abdefda9289cb1dcf56f1084519ac66fd280ed7e74cd3ac0f17606a8a6954a4dbdb4c4a2a>

CUR will also be offering a limited number of small travel grants to subsidize the cost of attending. Please see http://www.cur.org/conferences_and_events/cur_conference_grants/ for eligibility and application instructions. The deadline to apply is March 29, 2017.

UR Programs: Undergraduate Research Collaborations 2017

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.

Session Themes

  *   Assessment: Strategies for evaluating undergraduate research projects, using data to improve the experience or providing feedback for funding support.
  *   Diversity in Research: Effective strategies for promoting diversity-serving undergraduate research, undergraduate research that informs diversity issues, collaborations that have brought in diverging perspectives to undergraduate research.
  *   High Impact Learning Strategies: 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.
  *   Internationalization: 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.
  *   Undergraduate Research Administration and Budgeting - Nuts and Bolts: 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.
  *   Undergraduate Research Collaborations : Examples of effective partnerships with undergraduate researchers, pairing strategies, team projects, the ethics of collaboration in undergraduate research.

For more information, including the conference "schedule at a glance": http://www.cur.org/conferences_and_events/ur_programsundergraduate_research_collaborations_2017/

Thank you and see you soon,



Vanessa McRae and Kimberly Reiter

Conference co-chairs

(For conference questions or concerns: Vanessa McRae vanessa.mcrae at ucf.edu<mailto:vanessa.mcrae at ucf.edu> or Kimberly Reiter kreiter at stetson.edu<mailto:kreiter at stetson.edu>)



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