Undergraduate Research | Honor's Day | Symposium
Every spring, students from all over campus come together to present and celebrate their scholarly work. Each student is allowed to display their work in whatever method is acceptable in their field of study. This could include research posters, papers, or multimedia displays. In all cases, presenters typically stand adjacent to their work, deliver short oral presentations, and respond to questions. The conversations that come from these sessions are meant to give students practice at explaining their work and feedback that help bring about new ideas or collaboration.
New This Year!
We are back in person!!! This year’s Symposium will be held during contact hour and count as a Cultural Enrichment event credit for students. This will allow for presenters to be present without interrupting their own class schedules and higher attendance rates from students without interrupting their class schedules.
Registration
All projects must be registered in order to reserve a spot for the Symposium. Faculty mentors should complete the registration form below before April 7, 2023.
The Symposium is for current undergraduate students and recent graduates. All work must have been completed while they were students at LaGrange College.
REGISTRATION FORM
Preparation and Design
Posters- Size: 36x48in, cannot exceed 48x48in.
- If funding was obtained from the Undergraduate Research Program, then please add “Project funded by the LaGrange College Undergraduate Research Program” to the bottom of the poster. If project was funded by another agency, add a statement with the specifics associated with that funding type.
- The LaGrange College logo should be included somewhere on the poster.
- Posters typically include the following subtitles; however, students should follow the convention of each field of study.
- Titles
- Authors*
- Abstracts or Introductions
- Methods/Materials
- Results
- Discussion or Conclusions
*Faculty members should add themselves as the last author, if appropriate. In the event of multiple student authors, the order of names should be left up to the faculty mentor.*
Papers- Research papers should be printed.
- Students should have either 1) a PowerPoint presentation that summarized the project or 2) a one-page abstract that can be displayed.
- You are also encouraged to include any other printed graphics, physical displays, or resource material that would be of interest to attendees.
PowerPoint or other presentations
- Presentations should be displayed using PowerPoint or other standard presentation program. The event will have PC laptops set up.
- You are also encouraged to include any other printed graphics, physical displays, or resource material that would be of interest to attendees.
Artwork and other physical displays
- Students and faculty mentors are responsible for the display of all art pieces.
- Presentations should be displayed using PowerPoint or other standard presentation program. The event will have PC laptops set up.
- You are also encouraged to include any other printed graphics, physical displays, or resource material that would be of interest to attendees.
Video and audio
- Video and audio should be uploaded to YouTube.