[Academic-Affairs] Save the date! SUNY Undergraduate Research Conference

[Office of the Provost/VPAA]

*Colleagues, *

*Please keep this wonderful student opportunity in mind as you move through
the semester and student final projects.  Some may be good choices for
presentation at the SUNY Undergraduate Research Conference.  As you well
know, sometimes, it's just a single professor suggesting to a student that
they have a high quality project that is worthy of submission that will
spur a student to participate.*


*Thank you for considering.*



Dear Colleagues –

We are pleased to share with you that SUNY Maritime College will serve as
host for the *2023 SUNY Undergraduate Research Conference (SURC) to be held
on April 14, 2023. *

Please see the announcement below and pass this information along to all
interested people on your campus.  As students and mentors from ALL
academic disciplines are invited to participate in SURC, we ask that you
encourage your faculty to share it widely with their students.

More SURC information, including a Call for Participants, will be issued in
the coming weeks – watch SUNY.edu/SURC for details, and questions can be
submitted to SURC at SUNY.edu.

Thank you for promoting SURC and encouraging robust participation by your
campus.



Best regards,

The SURC 2023 Organizing Committee

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   Todd Lidh, SUNY Maritime
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   Phillip Ortiz, SUNY System Administration
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   Michaela Rehm, SUNY Center for Professional Development



*SUNY Undergraduate Research Conference (SURC) 2023 *

The SUNY Undergraduate Research Conference (SURC) brings together
undergraduate student researchers and faculty mentors from across the SUNY
system for a full day of multidisciplinary activities, including sessions
devoted to student presentations (oral, performance, artistic displays, and
poster), luncheon with keynote speaker(s), a SUNY Transfer, Graduate School
and Career Fair, and professional development workshops for students and
for faculty.

*Why SURC?*

Original research and creative activity are widely recognized as
high-impact educational experiences that positively affect undergraduate
students’ completion rates, career prospects and readiness for graduate
study. Most SUNY campuses encourage such research and creative activity
throughout the curriculum, through independent study and capstone
experiences and/or via internship placements, and invest in opportunities
for students to present their work. This allows students to engage critical
audiences in their learning processes and hone the professional
communication skills necessary for higher-order scholarship and career
success. Frequently those institutions do so by sending their students to
professional conferences and events. While such participation allows
students to develop further confidence and academic skills and to network
beyond their campus by presenting their work to students and faculty who
specialize in their research fields, this opportunity often comes at a
steep cost of sending students to distant conferences.

SURC provides similar networking and academic enrichment opportunities for
students throughout the SUNY system at lower costs and more convenient
locales.

By bringing together many hundreds of students and faculty from across the
state to participate in SURC, we will help realize the synergistic power of
the SUNY system. Students will benefit from networking and academic
enrichment opportunities and learn about transfer and graduate programs
available across SUNY. Faculty will benefit from networking workshops on
integrating student research into their pedagogy or building research and
grant collaborations.

SURC is supported by the Offices of the Chancellor and Provost, and the
Research Foundation, as well as SUNY student and faculty governance
organizations and, of course, the local host site.

*All undergraduate students engaged in research/creative activity and their
mentors across SUNY are invited to attend!*
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