Eastern Washington University’s campus, and Cheney, will be a very busy place in the next few days as the school and community host the 29th annual National Conference on Undergraduate Research, or NCUR, April 16-18.
Eastern will host NCUR for the first time with the event bringing in an estimated 3,000 students and 700 faculty from colleges and universities around the U.S. and the world.
“The opportunity to host this respected national event is evidence of the long-standing tradition at EWU to involve our students in research and scholarly pursuits,” EWU’s provost and vice president for academic affairs, Rex Fuller, said in a news release.
Over 100 Eastern students have attended NCUR over the years after honing their skills at the university’s annual Student Research and Creative Works Symposium, held each spring on the Cheney campus.
The Symposium is the largest campus-wide academic event at EWU and allows undergraduate and graduate students to showcase their research after months of preparation with their faculty mentors.
Like the EWU Symposium, NCUR gives participants the valuable opportunity to present their scholarly abstracts and creative works — via oral/poster presentation, interactive exhibit or artistic display — in a formal, professional setting.
It also gives students a chance to interact and it prepares them for graduate school and fine-tunes their workforce skills.
For details about the conference, including a schedule of events, visit http://www.cur.org/ncur_2015/.
Paul Delaney can be reached at pdelaney@cheneyfreepress.com.
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