Oklahoma Research Day is Nov. 13 at NSU-BA

By NSU Staff Writer Laura Butler

Northeastern State University hosts Oklahoma Research Day on Nov. 13 at the Broken Arrow campus. The event is coordinated by Dr. Thomas Jackson, Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs.

Jackson said Oklahoma Research Day is the premier academic research event in the state and NSU has been proud to host it the past two years.

Its a great opportunity to show off the regional universities, but it also allows presenters to network with professors in their disciplines, Jackson said. A lot of collaborative efforts come out of that.

According to Jackson, virtually all colleges in Oklahoma and many in the region have submitted abstracts and plan to present their research.

Last year when we hosted Oklahoma Research Day, we had almost 600 research posters and about 800 people attended the banquet, Jackson said. Those were the largest numbers ever, and we received posters from 41 institutions and collaborations from five international universities.

This year Oklahoma Research Day will be even larger, including over 1,200 participants. Communication graduate student Jessica Remer is a first-time participant who will showcase her work in a poster presentation.

The presentations give others in your field the opportunity to listen to you, as a scholar, talk about something that interests you, Remer said. Over the course of a research project, you become attached and begin to care about your topic, so it's a welcome opportunity to be able to explain it to scholars within your same discipline.

Oklahoma Research Day begins with check-in, breakfast and poster set-up from 8:30 - 9:30 a.m. in Building A, followed by paper presentations in Building C from 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Posters are taken down from 12:30 - 1:00 p.m. and the banquet luncheon begins afterward.

Oklahoma Research Day is sponsored by the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, Oklahoma Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research National Science Foundation, the IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence National Institutes of Health, the Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology and the Regional Universities of Oklahoma.

For more information, visit researchday.nsuok.edu.

11/10/2009

Published: 2009-11-10 00:00:00