SUMMER RESEARCHERS ACTIVITIES

Please check back during the spring for updates to the Summer 2019 list of activities for undergraduate students who will conducting research at NC State University over the summer of 2019.

2019 Dates of Summer Undergraduate Research Activities

May 27 – August 2, 2019

Summer research program students and NC State University students working on independent research projects may attend the events!

Hunt Library

Duke Energy Rooms

Wednesday

May 29, 2019

1:30-3pm

 Safety Orientation, Ken Kretchman

  • Basic safety information for students engaged in research and living on the campus.  Specific safety information for their research and facility to be provided by mentors.

Hunt Library

Duke Energy Rooms

Wednesday

May 29, 2019

3-5pm

 Welcome Reception for Students, Mentors, and Administrators, All students, mentors, and administrators of programs are invited.

  • Introduction of the summer programs by program directors/representative
  • Ice Breaker Activity
  • Social for students across the various programs to meet each other

June TBD

9:30am – 11:30am

Talley

Diversity Seminar/Workshop, Dr. Jamila Simpson, Assistant Dean for Diversity and Student Services

Registration Required for this event. Register for Session 1 OR Session 2

The program director will need to sign up their students OR if you are an independent NC State researcher, please contact the OUR at undergraduate-research@ncsu.edu   (max 70 per session)

June TBD

9:30am – 11:30am

Talley

Diversity Seminar/Workshop, Dr. Jamila Simpson, Assistant Dean for Diversity and Student Services

Registration Required for this event – The program director will need to sign up their students OR if you are an independent NC State researcher, please contact the OUR at undergraduate-research@ncsu.edu   (max 70 per session)

June 13, 2019

Thursday

9:30-11am

Talley

Room 4280

 Symposium Registration Info and Poster Training Workshop – Dr. Chris Ashwell and Annie Carlson Welch, Office of Undergraduate Research

  • Students learn how to construct a good poster, do’s and don’ts of good posters and what to expect at the Symposium.
  • Registration site for summer symposium opens at 11am and step by step registration instructions will be provided during this session

June 20, 2019

9:30 -10:30am

Room TBD

Research Ethics Seminar, David Resnik, JC, PhD, Bioethicist and IRB Chair, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH

This is a general content area session to cover misconduct (falsification, fabrication, plagiarism), data management, authorship, and mentorship.

  • Programs will need follow-up with case studies in content areas or review other options for small group case study discussions.

June 27, 2019

Thursday

9:30-11:30a

Room TBD

 Funding Graduate School and the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship  – David Shafer – Assistant Dean of the Graduate School and a panel of graduate students.

  • Students will learn about applying for graduate school and the NSF GF
  • Students will be able to ask the panel questions

Thursday

July 16, 2019

Noon (12p)

 Deadline for student registration and abstract submission for Summer Symposium – Mentors MUST approve the abstract by the deadline in order for students to present and be included in abstract books. http://go.ncsu.edu/symposiumposterprinting

Thursday

August 1, 2019

Time TBD

Talley Ballroom – Talley Student Union

 NC State Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium

  • Student Check In TBD for all posters/presenters
  • Sessions  – Two Sessions of Posters ONLY
  • Session numbers randomly assigned by registration system – unable to accommodate requests for specific session times.