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Students from KU and Haskell Indian Nations University will attend and make presentations at the national conference of the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS), October 11-14 at Bartle Hall in Kansas City. KU and Haskell are co-hosts of the event, which is expected to attract more than 3,000 participants from all over the country.
SACNAS provides an opportunity for universities to meet and recruit potential graduate students and postdoctoral researchers. It’s also an academic event, with oral presentations and poster presentations throughout the conference. Thirteen KU and Haskell students – both graduate and undergraduate – are on the program, and another 16 are attending.
KU will have a prominent exhibit at SACNAS, and more than 60 faculty from KU and Haskell will be on hand to help promote graduate programs. Chancellor Hemenway and Haskell President Linda Sue Warner will speak during the Welcome Ceremony on October 11.
KU is also hosting two field trips that day from Kansas City to the Lawrence campus. Participants will visit the Natural History Museum and learn more about the Kansas Geological Survey and KU’s NSF-funded Center for the Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets.
KU is sponsoring the registration fee for the 29 students, most of whom are associated with one or more of the NIH-funded programs designed to encourage diversity in higher education. These include:
“SACNAS is a real opportunity for KU to shine and to highlight our existing partnerships with Haskell,” said Jim Orr, professor of molecular biosciences and director of KU’s Office of Diversity in Science Training. “We are making every effort to ensure the conference attendees from all over the country have a chance to see KU as a leading national research university.”
