FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                              January 24, 2007

DEADLINE APPROACHING FOR RANGER RESEARCH DAY ENTRIES

            The deadline for students, faculty and to submit entries in the first annual Ranger Research Day is Friday, Feb. 16.

All faculty and staff members and all students with faculty sponsors are eligible to submit abstracts outlining their research projects. Each abstract should be 100-250 words in APA format. Entry forms are available online at www.nwosu.edu/graduate/research/entry.dot and must be submitted as an e-mail attachment to Dr. Rodney Murrow at rcmurrow@nwosu.edu. Murrow is director of graduate studies and chair of the Research Day committee.

Ranger Research Day will run from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., March 30, in the Student Center Ballroom on the Alva campus where research projects will be on display.

The public is invited to the Ranger Research Reception at 2 p.m. in the Ranger Room of the Student Center. Dr. Stephen W. Painton, chair of the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, will be the keynote speaker. The reception will conclude with the presentation of certificates and awards.

            After submitting the abstract, each researcher will need to prepare a poster presentation of their subject. Posters can either be flat (with some sort of easel or other means of holding them upright) or a tri-fold or other “folded” design. The overall poster size cannot exceed 4 feet by 4 feet. On Research Day, the university will provide only a table for display; the researcher will be responsible for everything else.

            Murrow said display options are limited only by the researcher’s imagination and the size restrictions. He described a poster as a vigorous hybrid of scholarly paper and museum exhibit. Like a paper, it should be built around an argument, but like an exhibit, it should be a visual experience.

            Posters should include an abstract, a short introduction, aim(s) of the study, results and discussion. Lettering should be large and legible.

            Murrow also noted that the competition is open to all academic disciplines to include arts and music, business, education, liberal arts, math and science. A complete list of the abstract categories, codes and disciplines, as well as other information about Ranger Research Day is available at www.nwosu.edu/graduate/research. This web site contains links that provide information about and examples of research posters.

            Poster presentations will be eligible for first through third place awards within each category. All entries will receive a certificate of participation and researchers will be encouraged to enter their research projects in Oklahoma Research Day held at the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond in the fall of 2007.

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