Assistant Director of the Academic Resources Center (ARC) Rena Burton will be presenting research she conducted with Assistant Professor of Education Eddie Comeau at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) in April. The title of her presentation is: "Understanding Division I College Athlete STEM Persistence."

AERA is the national organization of education researchers and professors. AERA received more than 13,000 submissions this year and accepted only a fraction of these submissions.

AERA will be held this year in Chicago on Thursday, April 16 to Monday, April 20, 2015.