Presenting
Submit an abstract by the March deadline with your mentor's sign-off, choose a format, and you're on the program. The Office of Research runs poster-design and presentation workshops in the weeks before, and prints your poster for free through the library. First-time presenters are the majority.
Why do it
A symposium presentation is a concrete line on a résumé or graduate application, and the practice of explaining your work to a non-specialist is the same skill every interview needs. Selected projects are nominated for state and regional undergraduate research conferences, with travel grants attached.
In and around Porter Falls
Research at Porter is applied and partner-driven: a Valley Health quality project, a DNR study on the Porter River, a manufacturing-process fix for a county employer. The Office of Research & Sponsored Programs handles the review and paperwork so the work can start on time.
The practical details
When: A Friday in April; classes are lightened so people can attend. Formats: Poster sessions, oral talks, performances, and gallery exhibits. Open to: Any undergraduate with a faculty mentor and a completed or well-underway project. Anything time-sensitive — an accommodation, a booking, a deadline — is worth confirming directly before you rely on it, because the specifics here can change from term to term.
If you have a question
The office behind this is Office of Research & Sponsored Programs (Millwright Hall, Room 340). Call (715) 555–0230 or email research@uwporterfalls.edu during the fall and spring terms, or sign in to MyPorter to send a message or book a time. If it turns out another office owns the question, they will route it rather than send you back to the start.
Fictional information
UW–Porter Falls is a work of parody. Every office, person, building, phone number and statistic on this page is invented; nothing here describes a real institution or a service you can actually contact.