The Graduate School is excited to invite the community to the University Research Symposium on Friday, April 12, in the Brown Ballroom and Circus Room of the Bone Student Center. The symposium is a university-wide showcase of scholarship, research, and creative achievement. The event will include posters at the Bone Student Center and oral presentations at various locations around campus.
New this year are opportunities to connect with some of Illinois State’s interdisciplinary centers and Advancing Research and Creative Scholarship (ACRS) projects, which are collaborative teams with internal and external stakeholders across disciplines.
This event is free to attend and open to the public.
More than 354 students from 29 programs are scheduled to participate in the symposium, which encourages cross-disciplinary association and focuses on communicating research and creative activity to the community.
Students will present in two poster sessions in the Brown Ballroom. There are 157 entries in the morning session (9 a.m. to 11 a.m.), 145 entries in the afternoon session (1 p.m. to 3 p.m.), and 41 in the e-poster session. Each session will include a different mix of graduate and undergraduate students who will present and discuss their scholarly works. E-poster submissions can be viewed on one 65-inch computer monitor in the Circus Room from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. A showcase of the finalists’ printed images from the Image of Research competition will also be on display.
As part of the symposium, oral presentations of student work will be hosted by the following units:
- The Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures: April 12, 10-11 a.m. in Stevenson Hall, room 131
- The School of Theatre and Dance: April 12, 1:30-3 p.m. in Centennial East, room 229
- The Department of Physics: April 13, 9:30-11 a.m. in Moulton Hall, room 309
Faculty, staff, family, visitors, and peers are encouraged to visit the venues to show your support of the students.
Detailed event and presenter information will be located on the symposium page of the Graduate School website during the week of the symposium. Visit the site for complete lists of projects in each session, presenter information/abstracts, oral presentation location maps, and more.
The Graduate School sponsors this annual event.
