Information for Faculty and Staff
The Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium provides an opportunity for Iowa State University to showcase and celebrate the mentored research of our most highly-motivated undergraduate students through oral presentations at faculty-moderated sessions. Student participation is not limited to Honors students and we hope to see a wide range of disciplines represented.
Students wishing to make presentations are asked to submit abstracts (up to 200 words) signed by their mentors. We hope that mentors will review these abstracts carefully and help assure that the abstracts meet appropriate professional standards. We encourage mentors to attend their students' sessions. Mentors will be listed along with their students and abstracts in the Symposium program. Mentors will also be invited to the Symposium luncheon. The Honors program will organize pre-Symposium workshops to help students prepare their fifteen minute oral presentations, which must be supported by PowerPoint.
Faculty and staff are invited and encouraged to:
- review submitted abstracts and moderate Symposium sessions. If you are interested in serving as a reviewer and/or session moderator, please contact Laura Merrick, the Symposium Coordinator, lmerrick@iastate.edu
- attend the Symposium events
- urge students currently engaged in mentored-research to present their work at the Symposium
- urge students not yet engaged in research to attend the Symposium to learn more about the nature and scope of undergraduate research taking place at ISU
If you questions or concerns that are not answered on this page, please visit our Frequently Asked Questions page or e-mail Laura Merrick .
