Center for High Achievement & Scholarly Engagement
Undergraduate Research Conference

Presentation Formats

Oral Presentations

Students who choose this format will be grouped by academic area, and if the number of submissions is large enough, by sub-disciplines within an academic area, by research topic, or by research method (but always within the academic area chosen by the student.)

Each student will have 15 minutes to present her/his research and to answer questions.  Some session moderators will hold all questions until all students have made a presentation, therefore, students should plan their remarks for no more than 12 minutes.

Although there is no limit on the number of students who may participate in a single oral presentation, we recommend no more than 2 and that anyone else who participated in the research be listed as a co-author.

All classrooms used for the conference are multi-media equipped with computers that have web access.  If you intend to use PowerPoint, we ask that you upload your presentation by Monday, April 8 to avoid problems on the day of the conference.  We also encourage students using visual aids to look at formats such as Prezi (http://prezi.com) that can be saved on and retrieved from the web.  The computer in each room is a networked PC.  If you are a Mac user with a PowerPoint presentation you only need upload your presentation by April 8 in order to have access to it on the day of the conference.

Tips for creating an oral presentation of research:

http://www.courseworks.unimelb.edu.au/researchandwriting/oralpresentations.php

http://www.psichi.org/conventions/presentation_tips.aspx#Paper

Poster Presentations

Students who choose this format will be grouped by academic area.  The number of poster sessions held on the day of the conference is determined after the submission deadline and based on the number of submissions.  However, there will likely be 2 or 3 sessions and each session will have 25-40 posters displayed.  All poster sessions take place in Irwin Library.  Each poster will be displayed from 60-90 minutes (depending on the number of submissions and the number of sessions).  Students should be available to talk about their poster for at least the first 20 minutes of the session.

Tips for creating poster presentations of research:

http://www.psichi.org/conventions/presentation_tips.aspx#Paper (scroll down for poster advice.

Visual Arts

Students who choose to present their art work will do so in the lobby of Irwin Library.  Last year, all art work was displayed for the entire day.  If we have a large number of submissions, we may need to have two sessions.

When you register your art submission, you'll need to tell us the title, the medium, and the dimensions of your submission.  Also, you'll need to provide an artist statement.

Tips for writing an artist statement:

http://artistemerging.blogspot.com/2006/08/writing-artists-statement.html

 All abstracts and artist statements will be available online after the conference at the Butler URC Website.