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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.

Natasha Mamaril will be presenting at the Frontiers in Education conference, an international conference about educational innovations and research in engineering and computing.

Survey administration for the Motivation and Achievement in Rural Appalachia (MARA) project is going full swing in October. The first survey administration is on October 7. Check your schedules and sign up for one or more of the time slots.

Dr. Usher will serve as an advisor to the Exploratorium project, “Research on Emerging Adult Learners,” to begin in 2014 and funded by the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS).

Amanda Butz, our very own lab coordinator, presented her paper on autonomy as a source of self-efficacy in the recently concluded EARLI Conference in Munich, Germany.

The P20 Motivation and Learning Lab has grown since it started in the summer of 2010. This fall semester we have 23 graduate and undergraduate students in the lab.