Abstract and Presentation Guidelines

The thirteenth annual Undergraduate Research and Creative Arts Symposium will be held on Friday, April 17, 2007 in Corbett Center. Symposium participants must be sophomores, juniors or seniors in any discipline who are completing substantial research and/or creative projects under the mentorship of faculty advisors. Abstracts are due March 19, 2009.

Poster sessions as well as sessions for scholarly papers, slide presentations, artistic exhibitions, and fiction readings will be scheduled. Oral presentations should be limited to 15 minutes in length. Tables and easels will be provided for poster presentations.

Presenters must submit a proposal form along with an abstract of no more than 200 words. Abstracts should conform to the disciplinary conventions of your field. If your abstract contains graphs, non-textual formulae, or images, you must submit your abstract on a disk or CD. Embedded objects cannot be submitted through our online submission form.

Abstract Guidelines

Abstracts must contain the following, on separate lines, in the order given:

Student's full name
Title of presentation
Student's major
Faculty advisor and department
Program sponsor (if applicable; e.g., Honors Thesis, McNair, MBRS, etc.)
Text of abstract (no more than 200 words, single spaced)

Example Abstract:

Joel Alan Martinez
"A Study of Convention in Plato's Cratylus and Logical Positivism"
Major: Philosophy
Faculty Advisor: Prof. Richard J. Ketchum, Philosophy
Honors Thesis, Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program

Begin the first sentence of your abstract flush left with two spaces between title section and abstract. The abstract should be single-spaced in a 12-point Times font.

IMPORTANT: Please proofread carefully; This is the abstract that will be published in the program.