It’s that time of year—the Student Symposium is approaching! Join the Office of Research on April 14th for the 31st Annual Student Symposium. Registration is open NOW through March 15th.
What’s the Student Symposium?
The symposium encourages interdisciplinary discourse, allowing students to learn from each other about engaging topics. Students are encouraged to present their projects in ANY form they want! You can still choose a traditional poster board-style presentation for your project, but if you believe your project would be better represented in another medium, we encourage you to do so - poster boards, slideshows, 3-D models, or any other presentation style. The symposium also provides an opportunity for student participants to discuss their work with a broad audience and compete for several prizes. Check out our website for more details.
Available Prizes (as of early March)
We are excited to partner with the following units to recognize student excellence with various awards distributed as scholarships. The awards from the Office of Research (Keys, Litten, Smith and James and Betsy Pyle) will be awarded to the highest scoring undergraduate student presentations with the discipline-specific awards being awarded to the following highest scored presentations in a specific area.
- The Office of Research will present the Keys, Litten, Smith Awards for Undergraduate Student Achievement to the top three scoring undergraduate student presentations at $250 each.
- The Office of Research will present the James and Betsy Pyle Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Science to the top scoring student majoring in Chemistry in the amount of $250.
- The Graduate School will present the Graduate Student Excellence Award to the top three scoring graduate student presentations at $500 each.
- The Teacher-Scholar Program will present the Teacher-Scholar Award to the top three scoring teacher-scholar students at $200 each.
- The R. Wayne Estopinal College of Architecture and Planning will present two $250 awards to undergraduate ECAP students and two $250 awards to ECAP students in the Teacher-Scholar program.
- The College of Health will present one $250 award to the top scored undergraduate student majoring in a College of Health discipline.
- The Honors College will present two student-mentor pairs with $250 awards each. These awards will recognize the achievements of the top scoring mentor-student pairs with a $250 scholarship to the student and a $250 deposit in the faculty member's RIA account.
- The College of Science and Humanities will present two $250 awards to the top scoring undergraduate students majoring in a College of Science and Humanities discipline.
- The College of Fine Arts will present one $250 award to the top schoring undergraduate student majoring in a discipline from the College of Fine Arts.