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April 4, 2008 – Ranger Research Day
Time: 8:30 am to noon (poster presentations) Awards ceremony will be mid-afternoon.
Location: Northwestern Oklahoma State University, Student Union Ballroom, Alva
This celebration will involve undergraduate students and faculty who are sharing their research projects by poster.
April 9-11, 2008 – Oklahoma Higher Education Teaching and Learning Conference: Teaching 360°
Location: Northeastern State University, Tahlequah
This meeting will feature keynote speakers Dr. Ken Bain, from Montclair College in New Jersey and author of What the Best College Teachers Do, and Dr. Barbara Millis, University of Nevada-Reno's director of the Center for Teaching Excellence.
For more information and registration, visit www.teachingconference.org.
April 10-12, 2008 – The 22nd National Conference for Undergraduate Research (NCUR22)
Location: Salisbury University, Salisbury, Md.
Deadline for applications and abstracts is Dec. 1, 2007. For more information, visit www.salisbury.edu/ncur22/docs/SU_NCURpostcard07.pdf.
April 16 & 17, 2008 – Funders Forum
Location: Oklahoma City (April 16) and Tulsa (April 17)
This event, sponsored by the Oklahoma Center for Nonprofits, will feature the following companies/organizations:
Oklahoma City: AT&T, Chesapeake Energy Corporation, Devon Energy Corporation, The Kerr Foundation, Love's Travel Stops & Country Store, MidFirst Bank, Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Anne & Henry Zarrow Foundation
Tulsa: Charles & Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation, Public Service Company of Oklahoma, SemGroup, L.P., The Chapman Trusts, The Williams Cos., Tulsa Area United Way
For more information and registration, visit www.oklahomacenterfornonprofits.org/events.asp.
May 4-7, 2008 – NCURA Region V: Weathering the Storm
Location: Renaissance-Bricktown Hotel, Oklahoma City
The NCURA Region V 2008 regional conference will provide challenges and solutions for research administrators. If you are interested in presenting, being a moderator or volunteering for this meeting, contact Kay Ellis at kay.ellis@okstate.edu or Joanne Palmer at jp57@txstate.edu. Hotel reservations are now being accepted. For more information and registration, visit www.ncuraregionv.com/spring-meeting08.htm.
May 17-21, 2008 – Society for Research Administration Midwest and Southern Sections' Joint Meeting
Location: Crowne Plaza Hotel, Hilton Head Island, S.C.
Visit the SRA Web site at www.srainternational.org/sra03/template/tntbSosa08.cfm?id=1812 for further information. Meeting co-chairs are Andrea Deaton, adeaton@ou.edu, and Rene Hearns, rene@urban.csuohio.edu. Save the date and hope to see you there!
June 2008 – Society of Research Administration Western Section Annual Meeting
Location: Marriot Downtown, Denver, Colo.
The SRA Western Section Annual Meeting will include the following topic tracks:
The date and time of this event will be announced in January.
For questions or to volunteer, contact meeting co-chairs Mike Grogan, grogan@salk.edu, or Amy Sikalis, Amy.Sikalis@intermountainmail.org.
June 3-5, 2008 – Enriching the Academic Experience of College Science Students
The University of Michigan Science Learning Center will host this national conference for staff and faculty who work with college science students beyond the classroom. Keynote speaker will be Dr. Freeman Hrabowski III, president, University of Maryland, Baltimore County. For registration and more information, visit www.umich.edu/~slc/conf/2008/homeslc.htm.
July 12, 2008 – 2008 Future Trends Impacting Community Colleges
Location: Chicago (in close proximity to the 2008 NACUBO Annual Meeting)
Learn how to ensure your community college remains competitive and responsive to the changing landscape in the years to come. You’ll interact and talk about key issues in a way that is unique in the world of higher education business. Sessions will include capital planning, economic development and fundraising, as well as networking opportunities with regional and national leaders that will provide you with information on the new directions other community colleges are taking.
For more information and registration, visit www.nacubo.org/x10052.xml.
July 20-August 24, 2008 – China Study Program (during 2008 Beijing Olympics)
Open to all students in the United States and offered by the College of Business at Northeastern State University, the program will include two student sessions and one Beijing Scholar Forum. Participants will also visit Shanghai (soccer venue) and Qingdao (sailing venue). The focus is on the development of cross-culture knowledge and competence and sport business/management skills through activities, guest lectures and Chinese business/sport networking opportunities. Participants will provide support to Team USA members at the Beijing Olympics at the USOC training center in Beijing. For more information, visit www.cbt.nsuok.edu/chinatrip or e-mail ballsl@nsuok.edu or pan@nsuok.edu.
July 21-22, 2008 – LEAD: Leadership Excellence for Academic Diversity
The University of Washington in Seattle will offer a National Science Foundation-sponsored national leadership workshop for science, engineering and mathematics department chairs and emerging faculty leaders. The workshop will provide academic leaders with the skills and resources for addressing issues related to university culture and professional development of faculty. A pre-workshop mentoring-for-leadership event will also be offered to female faculty. For more information, visit www.engr.washington.edu/lead. A call for registration will appear in April 2008.
August 7-8, 2008 – 2008 SRA Oklahoma Chapter Meeting
Location: University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond
October 9-13, 2008 – SRA International Annual Conference
Location: Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center, National Harbor, Md.
For more information and registration, visit www.srainternational.org.
November 2-5, 2008 – NCURA 50th Annual Meeting: Unity Through Diversity
Location: Washington Hilton, Washington, D.C.
For more information, visit www.ncura.edu/content/calendar/2008.php.
November 6-7, 2008 – OPSA (Oklahoma Political Science Association) State Meeting
Location: Cameron University
For more information, e-mail Tony Wohlers at awohlers@cameron.edu.
November 14, 2008 – Oklahoma Research Day 2008
Location: Northeastern State University, Broken Arrow, Okla.
For more information, call Tom Jackson, dean of graduate studies and research at NSU, at 918.444.2220.
November 16-19, 2008 – Annual HRPP Conference (Human Research Protection Program)
Location: Orlando, Fla.
This conference is sponsored by PRIM&R. For more information and registration, visit www.primr.org/Conferences.aspx?id=3643.