Under the Tucson Sun

Much effort goes into planning sessions for an AUBER conference. Determining topics of interest, inviting speakers, recruiting session chairs, and arranging the program take time, patience, and teamwork. I’m sure you all would agree that a conference program means more than a piece of paper that lists sessions, times, and rooms. It represents conference planners’ and association members’ efforts to provide the best conference possible.

I want to thank everyone who provided suggestions/contacts, accepted an invitation to present or chair a session, and volunteered “to help in anyway they could” (quoting Lorena Akioka, Keith Schwer, and Stephen Smith). Your efforts have helped create a program that offers sessions useful to research communicators, including working with federal data (“Effective Use of the BLS Web Site”), seeking funding (“GrantLink”), interviewing (“WinCati Mixed Mode Interviewing”), and publishing (“Publish or Perish”). Although we are not prognosticators, consider attending the “Fed’s Approach to Regional Economic Outlooks” session; it should be awesome. Unfortunately, we were unable to secure an Adobe presentation; however, a session on design/production tips is in the planning stage.

If you are interested in presenting at the fall conference (there should still be time to add a session or two) or chairing a session, please contact Janet Speyrer or Rennae Daneshvary.

See you in Tucson.

Rennae Daneshvary
University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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