Call for 2021 URCA Abstracts: Deadline extended to Feb. 12 |
Symposium: Apr. 15
Dear Colleagues,
The deadline for submitting abstracts for the 2021 College
of Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Symposium has
been extended to 5pm on Friday, February 12th.
Please see original portal posting below and the attached document for
additional details.
Chris Swanson
The Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Symposium
Committee is pleased to announce the Call for Abstracts for the Twelfth Annual
College of Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity
Symposium. This event will highlight the research, scholarly, and creative
activities of students throughout the College of Arts and Sciences, and will be
held with a virtual format on Thursday, April 15, 2021. (Please note: All CAS classes beginning
before 4:30 p.m. on April 15, 2021 will be cancelled that day for the
Symposium.)
All students who are declared majors in a program within the
College of Arts and Sciences are invited to participate in this year's
Symposium. Group projects in which some
members are majoring outside of the College of Arts and Sciences will be
considered by the URCA Symposium Committee.
Current students, as well as December 2020 graduates, are welcome to
present their work. Presenters may
choose a preference to give an oral presentation, poster presentation, exhibition,
or performance. All presentations should
have a significant research or creative component; examples of such include,
but are not limited to, summer research conducted at Ashland University or
elsewhere, results of independent study projects, thesis work, literary
readings or analysis, musical or theatrical performances, and exhibitions of
artwork.
I am contacting you today not only to inform you of this
event, but also to ask you to encourage students in your classes and
departments to consider submitting an abstract to present at the
Symposium. All abstracts submitted
require approval of a faculty sponsor who is familiar with the student's work
and can attest to the quality of the work.
At the time of submission, students will indicate who their faculty
sponsor is. The URCA Symposium committee
will contact the sponsor via e-mail to confirm that the sponsor has viewed and
approved the abstract. In approving a
submission, a faculty sponsor is indicating that the abstract meets the faculty
sponsor's standard for professional work, and that the abstract is
print-ready. Submissions that have not
been approved by a faculty sponsor will not be accepted.
Students
wishing to present at the Symposium should prepare an abstract in Microsoft
Word and email that Word document to the URCA Symposium Committee at
au.urca@gmail.com. Faculty sponsors must be copied on the email that contains
the submission. The deadline for submitting abstracts is 5:00 p.m. on Friday,
February 5, 2021. This deadline is firm.
A complete
submission must include ALL of the following:
B. Campus Box Number of Student Presenter(s)
