FACULTY AND ADMINISTRATORS

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The National Conferences on Undergraduate Research is a great opportunity both for your students to present their research to peers and faculty all over the country and for you to meet other faculty and undergraduate research program directors.

Student presentations are welcome in all fields and disciplines from the creative and performing arts to biomedical, engineering, and social science research. The National Conferences on Undergraduate Research provides a wonderful opportunity for your students: (1) to meet peers and faculty from around the country working in similar research fields; (2) to learn about how research and scholarship is conducted in a wide range of fields from the humanities and creative arts to the life sciences and engineering; (3) to learn about graduate school and employment opportunities from our presenters; and (4) to develop presentation skills. All student abstracts and applications will be reviewed by a faculty committee from the host institution. Students presenting at the National Conference have the option of doing either an oral or poster presentation.

As part of the National Conferences, we also offer sessions targeted specifically for faculty and administrators. These sessions are designed to share best practices for undergraduate research and scholarship and provide opportunities for faculty and administrators to meet and share information. The sessions are sponsored by the Faculty and Administrators Network and take place during the break between student presentations each day. The call for proposals for these sessions occurs at the same time as the student call for proposals.

Previous FAN Sessions have included: Community Based Research, Assessment and Evaluation of Undergraduate Research Programs, The Research Rich Curriculum, Running an Office of Undergraduate Research, Research Experiences for Undergraduates: A Multi-Tiered Curriculum Based Approach, Integrating Service Learning and Research in Economics, Creating an Interdisciplinary Social Action Oriented Student-Faculty Research Group, Interdisciplinary Research in Biomedical Engineering, and Expanding Undergraduate Research Throughout the Curriculum: the Humanities and Creative Arts.

Please note: We will not accept presentations for the FAN Sessions from faculty about one’s own disciplinary research.

Upcoming deadlines for the 2009 Conference.

23rd National Conference on Undergraduate Research University of Wisconsin – La Crosse: April 16-18th, 2009 http://www.uwlax.edu/ncur2009

Call for Applications and Abstracts :	October 3, 2008
Deadline for Applications and Abstracts :	December 1, 2008
Notification Decision on Abstracts :	January 23, 2008
Deadline for Conference Registration :	March 13, 2008
Hotel Reservation Deadline :	March 15, 2008

NCUR Proceedings

Student presenters at NCUR will also have the opportunity to publish their work in the Conference Proceedings edited and produced annually by the University of North Carolina at Asheville and distributed across the nation. All student presenters at the Conference are invited to submit manuscripts for review by the Proceedings Board. Submitting work to the Proceedings can benefit students in several ways:

• the opportunity to receive comments from faculty outside your own campus enhancing the opportunity to submit the publication for submission to other sources
• the opportunity for your students to list the publication on their resume for graduate and professional school applications
• the opportunity to publish in fields in which it is hard to find peer review publications accepting contributions from undergraduates

Visit the Proceedings homepage.

Workshop Announcement

CUR/NCUR Institute: Initiating and Sustaining Undergraduate Research Programs October 3-5, 2008 University of North Carolina at Greensboro DEADLINE: August 15, 2008

We are pleased to announce the CUR/NCUR Institute: Initiating and Sustaining Undergraduate Research Programs for faculty and administrators designed to share best practices for: (1) starting new undergraduate research programs (2) developing centralized undergraduate research offices (3) helping new undergraduate research directors develop their programs; and (4) help seasoned directors further build and develop their programs.

This institute has the following goals:

• To provide models of effective UR Programs
• To equip UR Program directors with a “tool-kit” of essential items needed for running an undergraduate research center.
• To provide access to resources that are available for directors for continuous development of their undergraduate research programs.
• To provide UR Program directors with “mentors” who are willing to provide advice after the institute ends.
• To begin a network of directors that will extend beyond the dates of the workshops
• To share with directors a variety of campus models that include broad disciplinary scope and focus, and work with students at different stages of their academic careers

For further information about this Institute, fees and registration please go to: http://www.cur.org/institutes/isurp.html

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Last Updated: August 6, 2008