Merriam-Powell Center for Environmental Research
 

Tentative Workshop Agenda
 
Agenda (as of February 22, 2007)
National Science Foundation
BIO Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU)
Site Director’s Workshop
Arlington, Virginia, March 8th and 9th, 2007
  
Thursday, March 8th
Before 4:00 PM Registration and Badge Pickup
NSF Reception Desk, Stafford I
Before 4:00 PM Poster presenters to set up their posters
Stafford I Atrium
4:00 – 6:00 PM Welcome Remarks (Dr. Machi Dilworth, Division Director, Dr. Jim Collins, Assistant Director) and Poster Sessions (attendees and NSF staff)
Stafford I Atrium
6:30 – 7:30 PM Banquet (for registrants only)
Holiday Inn-Arlington/Clarendon/Ballston Rooms
7:30 – 8:15 PM Keynote Speaker, Dr. Elaine Seymour, Ethnography and Evaluation Research, University of Colorado at Boulder, “Benefits and costs of undergraduate research for students and faculty”
Holiday Inn-Arlington/Clarendon/Ballston Rooms

 
Friday, March 9 th
7:30 – 8:00 AM Reception, coffee and pastries
Stafford II, Room 555
8:00 – 8:10 AM Welcome Remarks (Dr. Sally O’Connor, Program Director, Division of Biological Infrastructure and Dr. Diana Anderson, Chair, Workshop Planning Committee)
8:10 – 8:30 AM Clicker Session I “An REU Snapshot”
8:30 – 8:45 AM Ronnie Faram, NSF Student Intern “Biology REU Sites: Summer of 2006”
8:45 – 9:45 AM Keynote Speaker, Dr. Tyrone Hayes, Department of Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley, “An Inclusive Approach to Diversity”
9:45 – 9:55 AM Introduce Breakout Session I
9:55 – 10:15 AM Coffee Break
10:15 – 11:15 AM Breakout Session I “Creating and Sustaining Cultural Competency”
11:15 – 12:30 Breakout Session I Reports
12:00 – 1:00 PM Working Lunch and Workshop Address, Dr. Kathie Olsen, Deputy Director, NSF
1:00 – 1:15 PM Clicker Session II “REU Trends”
1:15 – 1:25 PM Introduce Breakout Session II
1:25 – 1:45 PM Coffee Break
1:45 – 2:45 PM Breakout Session II “Assessment and Common Tools”
2:45 – 4:00 PM Breakout Session II Reports
4:00 – 4:30 PM Clicker Session III “Future Outlook and Meeting Evaluation”
4:30 – 5:00 PM Concluding Remarks
   
*All but the individual breakout sessions will be held in Stafford II, Room 555. Breakout room assignments may be found in your workshop packet of materials.
 
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24-Mar-2008