Thursday, December 20, 2018

[244] MTSU officials plan STEM Education Research Conference in February



MURFREESBORO, Tenn. —The Tennessee STEM Education Center at MTSU announced the 13thannual Tennessee STEM Education Research Conference will be held Feb. 14-15, 2019, at MTSU. 

The conference will bring together “great minds to engage in conversations about empirical studies in STEM education and their applications to practice in K-20 learning environments,” said Greg Rushton, the center director. “Those who wish to contribute to the conference may register and submit an abstract.”

STEM is the acronym for science, technology, engineering and math.

The deadline for the first call for abstract submissions is noon Friday, Dec. 14. If there are still openings after this deadline, a second call will be issued.

The cost for registration is $60 with a discounted rate for students at $30. For more information about the conference, please visit the research conference page. To submit an abstract or download guidelines for presentations, visit the abstract submission page.

The keynote speakers will be Ilana Hornof Vanderbilt University and Vicente Talanquerof the University of Arizona. Horn is professor of math education at Vanderbilt’s Peabody College. Talanquer is the first university distinguished professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Arizona.

For more information, contact the Tennessee STEM Education Centerby calling 615-904-8573.

MTSUhas more than 300 combined undergraduate and graduate programs.

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