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The university’s Graduate Student Council (GSC) and School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (SGPS) invite proposal submissions for the ninth-annual Graduate Student Research Conference.

The conference will take place on campus on Thursday, May 3 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (location to be announced). Lunch will be provided. There will also be a dinner and a social for all presenters and guests after the conference.

A free event for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty and staff, the conference provides a platform to share both completed and ongoing research projects. Presentations can encompass any research area, but there will be a special emphasis on interdisciplinary collaborations that emphasize this year’s theme, Bridging the Gap.

This is an opportunity to not only build academic presentation skills, but also to network with graduate students and professionals in your community, and develop valuable partnerships with various sponsor organizations. Feel free to share this information with colleagues who might be interested.

You can submit a proposal for a:

• Data-blitz: Each session includes a series of five-minute talks (limited to three slides), covering a bite-sized piece of research accessible to researchers from diverse fields. To generate diverse sessions, these sessions will not be organized by topic. Include a 100-word abstract.
• Paper: 10-to-15-minute presentation describing an individual research topic. Several paper presentations will be grouped into larger sessions. Include a 100-word abstract.
• Poster (afternoon session): Presented in hard copy format (not electronic) on a display board. Include a 100-word abstract.
• Skill-building workshop: A 45-to-60-minute interactive workshop that provides academic skills graduate students (e.g. computer programs and software, written or oral professional communication, research, teaching and learning, entrepreneurship and leadership, career searching). Include a description of the workshop, level of difficulty (beginner, intermediate, advanced), and one or two learning objectives.
• Symposium: A co-ordinated group of presentations (each 45 to 60 minutes long) with a shared theme, a minimum of three presentations and an independent discussant. Include a 100-word abstract for each paper, as well as a 200-word abstract for the symposium session.

by Friday, March 9 at 11:59 p.m.

Note: There is a limit of two first-author submissions.

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