FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                                                      May 9, 2006 

FIRST ‘RANGER RESEARCH DAY’ IN PLANNING STAGES 

            Plans are underway for the first Ranger Research Day at Northwestern Oklahoma State University to be held during the spring 2007 semester.

Dr. Rodney Murrow, director of graduate studies and chair of the Research Day committee, said the event was being announced now to give students and faculty time to begin planning.

“We conceive Ranger Research Day as having a dual purpose,” Murrow said. “We want to provide an outlet for research projects at the local level and to serve as a preliminary for the state-wide Oklahoma Research Day, held each fall at the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond.”

The event will be open to all graduate and undergraduate students and faculty at Northwestern. It will be a poster presentation, open to research and creative projects in all disciplines, including arts and music, business, education, liberal arts, math and science.

The “Call for Abstracts” will begin during the fall semester, far enough in advance of the event that research projects can begin, be completed and developed into a poster presentation in time for the spring competition.

Murrow said the Ranger Research Day committee anticipated having a keynote speaker and that the event would be a competition for awards. All participants would receive a certificate of participation with additional awards made to winners in each discipline. Murrow said the awards may include trophies, cash or tuition waivers. A final determination will be made later in the year.

A Ranger Research Day web site is online at www.nwosu.edu/graduate/research/. Although the site is still under construction, it contains a full list of categories and disciplines, numerous links to sites with information about constructing research posters and other information.

In addition to Murrow, the Ranger Research Day committee consists of Dr. Mike Knedler, dean of the School of Arts and Sciences; Dr. James Bowen, dean of the School of Professional Studies; Dr. Jose Conceicao, associate professor of chemistry; Dr. Kay Decker, associate professor of sociology; Dr. Wayne McMillin, associate professor of psychology; and Dr. Sandra Petree, associate professor of English.

Additional information about Ranger Research Day will be available at the beginning of the fall semester.

-NW-

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