Students: It’s Time to Start Thinking About the Undergraduate Student Symposium

Are you on the brink of a new discovery? Do you have academic research, artistic work, or a class assignment that you’d like to share with the NSU community?

Have you considered submitting your work for the Undergraduate Student Symposium?

The symposium may be in April 2010, but it’s never too early to prepare yourself and your work for inclusion in the event.

So, just what is the Undergraduate Student Symposium?

The symposium, sponsored by the Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences, is a one-day event showcasing the outstanding scholarship of undergraduate students at Nova Southeastern University. The symposium features student projects and performances through oral presentations, paper submissions, and poster displays.

What kind of work classifies as ‘scholarship?’

Projects cover areas ranging from the experimental, the applied, and the computational to the theoretical, artistic, and literary. This includes class assignments, as well as independent projects. The research does not have to be complete; presentations can represent any stage of a project's evolution, from proposal and literature review to finalized experiments.

The definition of scholarship will include work presented in the biological and physical sciences, the social and behavioral sciences, computer science, mathematics, humanities, nursing, education, and business. Academic work in the following fields is also welcome: creative writing, journalism, literary analysis, philosophical and historical analysis, and public speaking (informative or persuasive).

Can anybody submit their work?

Undergraduate students from all NSU disciplines are welcome to participate in the symposium.

OK, so what do I have to do now?

Students interested in submitting their work should contact their academic division or college for more information, and seek a faculty sponsor for their project.

To apply, interested participants must submit an online application. After completing the application, you are required to print it and obtain necessary signatures before delivering the hard copy to the Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean by the posted deadline. The deadline for student submissions is 5:00 p.m., on Friday, February 26, 2010.

The Ninth Annual Undergraduate Student Symposium will take place on Friday, April 9, 2010. For more information or for complete details on submitting an application, visit www.fcas.nova.edu/currentstudents/uss.