About SRSD
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Student Research & Scholarship Day (SRSD) is an annual event to showcase the research and scholarship activities of USCB students.
In preparation for SRSD, students join with faculty mentors to produce research and scholarship in the following categories:
- Poster Presentations
- Hypothesis-Driven (basic and applied research, testing a hypothesis using inferential statistics)
- Issue-Based / Descriptive (Issue-based research is non-hypothesis based applied research, examining a socio-cultural, educational, political, health-related, economic, or technological issue. Descriptive research is non-hypothesis based research guided by a question or set of questions.)
- Visual Arts
- Innovation/Application (Non-hypothesis driven project to develop a novel technique, algorithm, or procedural method for pedagogy, information processing, engineering, problem solving, or domain-specific best practices)
- Oral Presentations
On the day of the event, oral presenters will gather in Hargray 158, and posters will be on display in Hargray Lobby. Students presenting posters will be available to discuss their work during the Poster Viewing Session. See the Agenda for times.
Lunch will be provided free to all presenters, faculty mentors, and judges.
Posters must fit on a 46.5” tall, 72” wide board. Oral presentations must not exceed 20 minutes.
Presenting at SRSD
A student may present either an individual or group project at SRSD and must have a faculty mentor. Participants must meet the following deadlines:
- Friday, March 8 to Monday, March 25 - Open registration period of intent to participate in SRSD, with the student’s name, the mentor’s name, project title, category of participation, and a draft of the abstract (or artist statement for visual art projects)
- Monday, April 1 - Submission of student revisions to project title or abstract (or artist statement).
- Friday, April 5 - Final mentor review and approval of revisions.
- Friday, April 12 - Submission of students’ posters to be printed.
- Monday, April 15 - Mentor Approval of students’ posters to be printed.
Submission Requirements
Registering your Intent to Participate
SRSD uses an online application to manage registrations and abstracts.
Visit http://researchday.uscb.edu.
Register for the website. Use your USCB e-mail address and
create a password specific to this event (not your USCB username and password).
- Login with your e-mail address and new password.
- Fill in the form presented there, and click Submit. See writing abstracts or writing artist statements. Abstracts and artist statements can be edited by the mentor for any special characters or formatting required.
After you submit, you’ll receive an e-mail as a receipt. Your mentor will also receive an e-mail.
If you have technical problems with the submission, please contact the 2013 SRSD Webmaster, Dr. Brian Canada, at bcanada@uscb.edu. (Please provide enough detail to reproduce the issue if necessary.)
Writing Abstracts
Your abstract must be 300 words or fewer.
If you have received financial support for your project, you should acknowledge that at the end of the abstract.
Resources for writing abstracts:
Writing Artist Statements (for Visual Arts entries)
Your artist statement must be 300 words or fewer.
Your artist statement outlines the scope of your project. Address the possible themes of project, the intent of the artwork, and an explanation of your process.
If you have received financial support for the project, you should acknowledge that at the end of the artist statement.
Resources for writing artist statements:
For More Information
Please contact either of the SRSD co-chairs:
Dr. Joe Staton - jstaton@uscb.edu
Dr. Robert Kilgore - kilgorer@uscb.edu
