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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span><<a href="mailto:grad-heads-bounces@lists.uoregon.edu">grad-heads-bounces@lists.uoregon.edu</a>> on behalf of Tori Byington <<a href="mailto:byington@uoregon.edu">byington@uoregon.edu</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Friday, February 10, 2017 at 8:54 AM<br>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>grad-heads: 8th Annual Graduate Student Research Forum<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%">Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%">I am reaching out to you today on behalf of the Graduate School to let you know about the
<b>8<sup>th</sup> Annual Graduate Student Research Forum</b> May 12, 2017. Last year over 100 students from graduate programs representing every UO school and college participated in the Grad Forum. The Grad Forum is an excellent professional development opportunity
for students to share their work with an interdisciplinary audience of faculty, other graduate students, undergraduates, and members of the public. We appreciate the support you have offered over the past 7 years and look forward to your ongoing support this
year. Below is an email you are welcome to send out to your students to encourage them to participate and attend. Please feel free to personalize it if you prefer. Please let me know if you have any questions.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Tori C Byington, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Graduate School<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">University of Oregon<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">541-346-2461<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:byington@uoregon.edu">byington@uoregon.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">The 2017 Grad Forum will take place on Friday, May 12, from 9:30 to 4:00 in the new EMU. Graduate students are encouraged to submit their work to be presented in one of three formats: Poster, Three-Minute Thesis,
or Symposium (format details below). The submission deadline is Wednesday, March 15, 2017.
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">The Grad Forum provides an excellent professional development experience for graduate students to share their work with a broad audience of faculty, other graduate students, undergraduates, and members of the
larger community. The event is an opportunity to make interdisciplinary connections and compete to win up to $250 for the best presentations within a category!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Students can participate in <b>one of three ways:</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Poster Submissions:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> Submit a title; a 150
<u>word</u> abstract describing your research; and a 140 <u>character</u> thumbnail summary to be used for the promotional materials (about 25-28 words). Details about poster size will be available soon. Posters previously developed or to be developed in the
future for presentation at other conferences are welcome. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:16.5pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Three Minute Thesis Submissions:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> Submit a title; a 150
<u>word</u> abstract describing your research; and a 140 <u>character</u> thumbnail summary to be used for the promotional materials (about 25-28 words). Presenters will have 3 minutes (no more!) to present their research at the forum and they can use one static
slide. Winners have the opportunity to compete in the state finals for Three Minute Thesis, held here in Eugene on Saturday May 20, 2017.
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Symposia Submissions: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Symposia<b></b></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">are comprised of talks by three to five graduate students (total presentation time is 1 hour). At least two
different fields must be represented, and the talks should share a theme or topic. Submit a symposium title and a 300-word abstract describing the symposium theme and how each of the talks relates to it. In addition, for
<i>each</i> individual presentation, submit a title and a 140 <u>character</u> thumbnail summary. Please designate one symposium participant as a contact person, who will also serve as the panel’s moderator.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">New this year! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">To continue the excitement of last year’s popular “blitz” talks, we are holding the UO’s Three Minute Thesis competition in conjunction with Grad Forum. Three Minute Thesis presentations will be one of the presentation
formats. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:115%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#3B3B3B">Symposia need to include only TWO different departments this year (although we encourage you to indulge your interdisciplinary desires to the maximum extent!). If you have an idea about a symposium
and need help fleshing it out or finding other participants to complete your symposium, please contact Sara Hodges at
</span><a href="mailto:sdhodges@uoregon.edu"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:blue">sdhodges@uoregon.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#3B3B3B">.
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#3B3B3B">Grad Forum is open to new presenters whose research is ready to go public. We also encourage more seasoned participants to take advantage of this lively exchange of ideas. Please consider applying!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">Deadline for poster, blitz presentation, and individual submissions: Wednesday, March 15, 2017.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">Link for submissions:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://bit.do/UOGSRF2017"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:blue">http://bit.do/UOGSRF2017</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#3B3B3B">Information about the Grad Forum can be found on our website at:
</span><a href="http://blogs.uoregon.edu/gradforum/"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">gradforum.uoregon.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#3B3B3B">.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Tori C Byington, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Graduate School<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">University of Oregon<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">541-346-2461<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:byington@uoregon.edu">byington@uoregon.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced"---James Baldwin<o:p></o:p></p>
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