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Amanda Butz, our research assistant, has been named one of 61 finalists for a National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation dissertation fellowship. She was also accepted to the American Educational Research Association Division C’s professional seminar for doctoral students.
Congratulations, Amanda, on these well-earned honors!

This year the University of Cincinnati is hosting SRC in Cincinnati, OH on April 12, 2014. Deadline to submit the abstract is March 8, 2014.

Survey administration for the Motivation and Achievement in Rural Appalachia (MARA) project is continued in January.

We are proud to announce that all three proposals that we submitted to the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) are accepted.

Happy New Year! Our first lab meeting will be January 27, from 1:00 to 2:00 PM at 63 Dickey Hall.

P20 Motivation Lab members will be visiting engineering classes in the next few weeks to administer the UK Engineering Student Survey to undergraduate students in the College of Engineering beginning November 12.

Dr. Usher is in Grenoble, France to talk about motivation and American education to students at the Université Pierre-Mendès-France (UPMF). UPMF is focused on social sciences and humanities, and offers opportunities to international researchers at all levels.

The University of Kentucky is hosting the 2014 National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) here in Lexington, KY on April 3 – 5, 2014. Undergraduate student researchers are encouraged to submit an abstract of their proposals. Deadline to submit the abstract is Friday, December 6, 2013, 11:59 EST.

Dr. Richard Mayer, a prominent educational psychologist from the University of California Santa Barbara, visited the University of Kentucky.