A regional conference created specifically for graduate students.
Do you want to…
> Practice for another conference?
> Set up collaborations?
> Get feedback on your ideas?
> Present your own research?
If you answered yes to any of those questions, this may be the perfect place for you! Our symposium focuses on programming and support for graduate students in any field and at any stage of their program. We welcome you to peruse the site to learn more about our history, prepare for the upcoming event, and visit our social media where we share extra resources, event information, and other fun SUGRS snippets.
Our History
In 2009 at a not-so-small Southeastern university…
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Jeffrey Bryant Hanson, 2017
In his capacity as the Head of Educational Studies in Psychology, Research Methodology, and Counseling (ESPRMC) at the University of Alabama (UA) College of Education, Dr. Rick Houser, now retired, founded what is now called SUGRS in 2009. In the beginning, SUGRS was a departmental symposium designed to help its students with the conference and presentation process. Three professors made up the original committee: Dr. Sara Childers (Ohio State), Dr. Cecil Robinson (UA CCHS, Director of Learning & Evaluation), and Dr. Ann Godfrey (retired). That first year, 12 students participated in the symposium, and it was a success! It grew as more and more students from the department became involved.
In 2012, Dr. Stacy Hughey Surman joined the committee. 2013 saw the symposium expanding to incorporate the entire College of Education. Dr. Surman became the committee chair in 2014 and worked with Dr. Aaron Kuntz (Florida International University) who took over from Dr. Houser. Through their hard work, and with invaluable support from UA’s Graduate School, they opened the symposium up to the entire university. By 2017, students from every college at UA participated, with numerous scholarship opportunities available.
The symposium was renamed the Southeastern Universities Graduate Research Symposium, or SUGRS for short, in 2018/2019 when, with the help of Dr. Michael Lawson (ESPRMC Department Chair) and Dr. Stephanie Shelton (ESPRMC professor), the event became regional, encompassing Auburn University as a partner university. Since then, the University of Georgia at Athens, Baylor University (Texas), and the University of Tennessee at Knoxville joined SUGRS as additional partner schools.
We look forward to continuing these partnerships and developing new ones in the years to come!
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