Deadline: 5:00 p.m., February 5, 2008
Academic Showcase
Friday, March 28, 2008
9 a.m.–noon Bohler Gym
Call for Abstracts
President Elson S. Floyd and Provost Robert C. Bates invite Washington State University faculty, staff, and students (undergraduate, graduate, and professional) to present original scholarship or research at the University’s Academic Showcase. Submission of academic and creative projects from all colleges and units and in any discipline is encouraged. This event provides an opportunity for the University community to celebrate the achievements of individuals engaged in WSU’s central mission: the advancement of scholarship, research, and the arts. Work submitted will be displayed for the campus community to view.
Choose the format that best displays the project, i.e., composition, research on teaching, scientific research, art, plays, architectural design, etc. (See guidelines for specifics on scientific or creative activity.) To submit work, please prepare an abstract or summary of your scholarly activity of 250 words or less that describes original research, scholarship, and/or creative activity conducted at Washington State University. Submissions will be reviewed by the Academic Showcase sub-committee, and authors will be notified of acceptance February 14, 2008.
Abstracts should be written for a lay audience.
Be clear and concise. Avoid the use of jargon or catch phrases whenever possible. If you have an existing poster/display containing an abstract of a highly technical nature, that abstract may remain as part of your display. However, for purposes of this event, the submitted abstract should be written for the lay audience.
While all abstracts might not fit the following guidelines exactly, abstracts may contain the following key points:
Creative Projects
- Description of the creative endeavor
- Methods used to accomplish the creative activity
- How the piece of art will be presented
- Program notes, i.e., historical relationships to the new work of art and insights into the creative process
- Abstracts should address significance of the project
Click here to see a sample abstract
Scientific Projects
- Background—the problem under investigation or a hypothesis
- Methods—the experimental methods or protocols used to accomplish the research
- Results—the key points derived from experiments. Data should be summarized with enough presented to allow the reviewers to judge the content
- Significance of the project
- Conclusion—a summary of your findings that are supported by the data presented
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All accepted abstracts will be published online