Minds At Work:

Fifteenth Annual Student Research Conference

February 19, 2008

Conference Objectives

• To increase student interest and knowledge concerning academic research and scholarship.
• To recognize, honor, and reward academic excellence.
• To give students an opportunity to experience the conference format of academic inquiry; and to improve their critical thinking, writing, and presentation skills in a professional setting.

Conference Format

We are soliciting student projects from any academic discipline.  Students wishing to present papers need to register for the conference, submit a copy of their research paper or written project outline and an abstract of their project (details below).  Each participant will have ten minutes to make an oral presentation of their research that will be followed by five minutes of questions and discussion.  (We ask the papers not be read verbatim.)  Students are asked to specify any audio-visual needs their presentation will employ.  We request that student presenters bring several extra copies of their papers for distribution to interested faculty and students.

A luncheon will be provided to all registered participants and their faculty sponsors.  Presenting students and faculty sponsors will also receive a commemorative book.  Abstracts will be published in the conference program.  There will also be opportunities for visiting students and faculty mentors to interact with colleagues and meet our keynote speaker.

For more information and the registration form, please download the attached PDF document.