ANN ARBOR—”New Integrations of Research, Scholarship and Undergraduate Education,” a policy symposium and best practices workshop focusing on new models of undergraduate education which integrate research and creative work throughout the curriculum, will take place at the

University of Michigan March 29-30.

On Neal Lane, presidential science adviser and former director of the National Science Foundation, will give the keynote address. Cora Marrett, provost at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, will deliver the day’s closing address.

Panelists for the symposium include: U-M Provost Nancy Cantor; Melvin D. George, president emeritus, University of MissouriState University of New York at Stony Brook; Robert Lichter, president, The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation; John McTague, vice president, Technical Affairs, Ford Motor Co. and former Acting White House Science Adviser to President

Ronald Reagan; Jeanne Narum, director, Project Kaleidoscope; Stephen Director, dean, U-M’s College of Engineering; Roberta Gutman, vice president and director of Global Diversity, Motorola, Inc; and Congresswoman Lynn Rivers (D-Michigan), among others.

On March 30 the best practices workshop will bring together representatives of research universities from across the country to make presentations about their efforts to involve undergraduates in research, scholarship and creative activity both within and outside of the classroom.

“During the last decade, research universities have offered a growing array of programs that engage undergraduate students with faculty members in research, scholarship and creative work,” says Timothy L. Killeen, U-M’s associate vice president for research and professor of atmospheric, oceanic, and space sciences. “It seems that research universities are poised to take these offerings to the next level by using these learning techniques across the entire undergraduate curriculum. At the Wiesner

Symposium, we want to take a hard look at the policy questions and resource decisions that need to come soon to make this possible, especially at the nation’s research universities.”

The U-M Office of the Vice President for Research is sponsoring the events.

The schedule for the symposium follows. Additional details are available on the Web at

http://www.research.umich.edu/research/events/wiesner_99.html or call the Office of the Vice President for Research at (734) 647-9085.