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Capital's Symposium on Undergraduate Scholarship is a great way to let your friends, family members and potential employers know about the work that you have done.
The deadline for submissions to the 2019 Symposium is 5 pm on March 8, 2019.
Before attempting to submit your research, please read and follow the directions on this page. After the deadline has passed, the registration will be disabled until it opens again the following year.
If you have questions, you may contact the Symposium Planning Committee at symposium@capital.edu.
Thank you for participating!
DIRECTIONS FOR SUBMITTING RESEARCH
Before you submit your abstract to the symposium online, be sure that you have all of the information that you will need.
- Title of your project
- First author's name
- First author's email address
- First author's phone number
- First author's ID number
- Names of additional authors (if any)
- Email addresses of any additional authors
- T-shirt sizes of all authors
- Name of the faculty who supervised your work
- Department of the faculty who supervised your work
- Email address of the faculty who supervised your work
- Abstract (100-200 words, written in PRESENT or PAST TENSE), which includes:
- Introductory Statement (background info connecting your work to literature on your topic)
- Purpose (what you were attempting to do)
- Methodological Approach (how you conducted your project)
- Findings (what you learned)
- Contribution to Your Discipline (why your work is important)
- The type of presentation that you will do (oral or poster)
DIRECTIONS FOR SYMPOSIUM POSTER PREPARATION - SPRING 2019
All poster presentations will take place in the Field House of the Capital Center between 11:30 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. You are expected to stand next to your poster during this time to discuss your project with attendees. See attached document for complete presentation listing.
We have included some suggestions to prepare for your poster presentation.
- Discuss your poster with your faculty mentor.
- Please inform any coauthors who also will be presenting this work.
- Print your poster by April 12th. You may either make your own poster or print your poster on the large printer in the Information Technology Center on the lower level of Blackmore Library (see details below).
On Wednesday, April 17th between 8:30 and 9:40 a.m., bring your poster to the Field House of the Capital Center.
If your research project was conducted as part of a Research Methods course and was not submitted to and approved by the IRB, you must include the following statement on your poster:
“This work was conducted as part of a Research Methods class and it is not designed to contribute to generalizable knowledge.”
Poster details:
- Maximum dimensions for your poster should be 48 inches wide by 36 inches tall (you will need to use landscape format). Poster board, easel and clips will be provided.
- To enhance readability of your poster, use at least a 48-point font for your title and author credits and at least a 24-point font for the text.
- IT will send an email to poster presenters with information about printing your poster. IT will set up and enroll you in an on-line iLearn course with examples and detailed procedures for how to print your poster. Please be sure to follow the poster printing guidelines carefully to avoid problems and delays in printing.