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The Undergraduate Student Symposium, sponsored by the Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences, presents student projects and performances through oral presentations, paper submissions, and poster displays. The event showcases the outstanding scholarship of undergraduate students at NSU. This event will take place on Friday, April 4, 2008, starting at 1:00 p.m., in the Alvin Sherman Library, Research, and Information Technology Center.

The Undergraduate Student Symposium is open to undergraduate students from all disciplines. Projects cover areas of student scholarship ranging from the experimental and the applied to the computational, theoretical, artistic, and literary. They are taken from class assignments as well as from independent projects. The research does not have to be complete; presentations can represent any stage in a project's evolution, from proposal and literature review to fully completed experiments. As in past symposia, the definition of research will be sufficiently broad to include work presented in the biological and physical sciences, the social and behavioral sciences, computer science, mathematics, humanities, nursing, education, and business. Submissions can include creative writing, journalism, literary analysis, literary performance and visual art, philosophical analysis, public speaking (informative and persuasive), radio performance, and historical analysis.

Students interested in participating should contact their academic division or college for more information and seek a faculty sponsor for their project. Participants must submit an application, including abstract, to the Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences Dean's Office by the application deadline of Friday, March 14, 2008 at 5:00 p.m.

Date: Friday, April 4, 2008

CITI Training

For research projects involving humans, researchers and the faculty sponsor must complete CITI training prior to submission of a project for Institutional Review Board approval. This training is also required for projects that seek IRB exemption.

The training is online and can be accessed through the CITI training web site . Investigators must register, personally, prior to completion of the training modules. Please complete the online form with your faculty sponsor.

Investigators who will be conducting research in science/biomedical areas must complete (at minimum) the following modules:

• History and Ethical Principles
• Basic Institutional Review Board
• Informed Consent
• Records-based Research
• Genetic Research
• Vulnerable Populations: An Overview
• Hot Topics

Investigators who will be conducting research in social/behavioral sciences or humanities (if human subjects are involved) must complete (at minimum) the following modules:

• History and Ethical Principles
• Defining Research with Human Subjects
• The Regulations and The Social and Behavioral Sciences
• Assessing Risk in Social and Behavioral Sciences
• Informed Consent
• Privacy and Confidentiality
• Research with Children
• Research in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools

As appropriate, additional training modules may be required depending on the research.

All participants in the Undergraduate Student Symposium gain valuable experience, presentation skills, and recognition by the college and their peers. Judging takes place during the oral and poster presentations and prizes will be awarded at the end of the day for outstanding projects in several categories. As you plan your presentation, be sure to address each of these aspects. (Review sample templates)

Note: Poster setup is required by noon on April 3 for judging.

Research projects will be judged on the following criteria:

• significance and importance of the topic
• appropriateness of the research question
• choice of research methods and procedures
• successful interpretation of results
• creativity and originality
• clarity of the oral presentation
• level of professional quality and appearance

Oral performance will be judged on the following criteria:

• choice of material/topic
• research (if applicable)
• delivery

Creative writing will be judged on the following criteria:

• originality
• language use
• clarity
• universality

NSU's newly-forming branch of the American Association of University Women is offering an NSU Bookstore gift card to the best symposium submission that focuses on issues faced by women.

Submissions must be in line with AAUW’s mission of promoting equity for women. Eligible projects include, but are not limited to: research that considers gender in education; the status of women in the sciences; women and law; women and politics; and women and culture. Any project type (poster, completed, in progress, proposed, or literature review) is eligible for submission.

The student researcher must present the project at the NSU Undergraduate Student Symposium to be considered for this award. Please denote interest on the Undergraduate Student Symposium application. Since 1881 the American Association of University Women (AAUW) has been the nation's leading voice for promoting education and equity for women and girls through advocacy, education, and research.

For more information regarding the Undergraduate Student Symposium, please contact Allan Schulman, Ph.D., director of the Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences.