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  • Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2025: Grants Resource Center (GRC) Fall Faculty Overview | 1:00 CT |. Please register with GRC.
  • Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2025: SURF Deadline to Submit Narrative Materials for Feedback | 4:30 | ORSP@uca.edu.
  • Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2025: SURF Completed Applications Due | 4:30 | You will receive instructions after meeting with your pre-award administrator.
  • Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025: Grants Resource Center (GRC) National Institutes of Health Extramural Research Update | 1:00 CT | Please register with GRC.
  •  Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026: Student Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Spring Open House, Torreyson West, Ste. 328.
  • Tuesday, Mar. 31, 2026: Finding Funding: Helping Me Help You Find the Hidden Gems in Likely and Unlikely Places | 1:40 | Torreyson West, Ste. 328. Seating is limited; register for this presentation soon!
  • Thursday, Apr. 2, 2026: Grad School & ORSP Awards | TBD |
  • Tuesday, Apr. 21, 2026: Vetting Guidelines: Avoid Wasted Time & Effort | 1:40 | Torreyson West, Ste. 328. Seating is limited; register for this presentation soon!
  • Thursday, Apr. 23, 2026: Research Symposium | 3:30–5:30 | McCastlain Ballroom
  • June 2026 Book Club: Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad by Austin Kleon | Zoom | Participants will receive free copies of the book. Spots are limited; register for this book club soon!
    • Many people believe creativity is the sole purview of the fine arts. In fact, theoretical physicist Albert Einstein, historian Hannah Arendt, and philosopher and rhetorical theorist Jacques Derrida engaged in the creative process to engage meaningfully with society to create more fair and just systems, advance leadership, and drive innovative strategies. In Keep Going, Kleon provides 10 strategies to keep your work—whether it’s writing for grants or publications or developing better pedagogical methods—moving “[w]hether you’re burned out, starting out, starting over, or wildly successful.”
  • July 2026 Book Club: Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath and Dan Heath. Participants will receive free copies of the book. Spots are limited; register for this book club soon!
    • One of the most important strategies for writing a competitive grant is making your idea stick. But why are some ideas “sticky” when others aren’t? Brothers Heath explore and demonstrate how to build an idea (and move it to the project stage) so it will stand out above the competition.