Meet the Submission Deadline

The abstract submission deadline is 1 March 2025.

Add the Symposium Date to your Calendar

Tuesday, 15 April 2025

What is the RCWS Proposal?

The RCWS proposal is an online Google Form (linked below) completed by all students who hope to present at the Symposium on 15 April 2025.  The form is independent from the presentation, though you may certainly draw from your proposal when creating your presentation.  The primary audience for the RCWS Proposal is the symposium organizers and all the information shared in the RCWS proposal will be listed in the symposium program. This is your chance to take part in a truly special event: pitch your presentation clearly, accessibly, and with excitement, to ensure it will be accepted!   

Sponsors

Sponsors play a crucial role in guiding and supporting students through the process of creating and executing a RCWS presentation. Sponsors may be faculty or staff, and their primary purpose is to provide mentorship, expertise, and encouragement as students navigate the complexities of research, analysis, and presentation. Sponsors often help students prepare for presentations by offering feedback on content, organization, and delivery. They assist in refining presentation skills, encouraging clarity, coherence, and effective communication of findings.  

Choose Your Presentation Style

• Poster Presentations provide an opportunity to display your research. They often combine visual and textual content, such as tables, graphs, images, and citations.
• High-Impact Experience Posters provide an opportunity to share visual and textual content and reflections on community-engaged learning (CEL), faculty-mentored research, internships, or study abroad.
• Oral Presentations allow students to share their research in a classroom presentation, with or without visual aids like a PowerPoint.
• Creative Works Exhibitions showcase all forms of visual art, including original painting, sculpture, photography, prints, textile arts, drawings, pottery, metal, etc.
• Creative and Scientific Process Exhibitions provide students from any discipline the opportunity to showcase a project’s creative and scientific process beginning with the creative idea and/or scientific question. This exhibition does not require that a project be completed before the exhibition. Students create a physical representation or poster presentation highlighting their individual or group process as well their reflections on the process itself.
• Performances showcase live performances of all types, including literary readings, theatre, music, or dance.
• Panels include a group of three to five individuals (including a moderator) who will discuss a given topic and will be allocated 50 minutes.

Abstracts

The Call for Proposals requests a 150-200-word abstract.  Reach out to your sponsor and/or the Debby Ellis Writing Center (DEWC) if you need assistance in writing your abstract.  The DEWC can introduce students to the basic conventions of abstract writing, offer models from prior Research and Creative Works Symposium and break down the parts of an abstract, and provide peer feedback on abstracts prior to submission.  Please contact Maurice Wilson, Director of the Debby Ellis Writing Center (Wilson22@southwestern.edu) for more information.

 

SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL FOR THE 2025 RCWS HERE