2024 WISER | MURE | FURP Research Symposium
Photo credit: David Kubarek @ Penn State
Event Details
We will be holding the 6th annual WISER/MURE/FURP Undergraduate Research Symposium this fall. This is a great opportunity for students to showcase their research, interact with faculty, staff, and other program participants.
What: 2024 WISER|MURE|FURP Research Symposium
When: Wednesday, November, 13th 2023 from 5pm to ~7:15pm
Where: Steidle 114
Who: WISER|MURE|FURP students, advisors, friends, and family are all invited to attend
Dinner: Pizza & drinks will be provided
Format: This event will be held in person. Students will present lightning talks (information below). We will provide a zoom link for any friends/family/advisors that wish to view the event virtually. We will email this link to students and faculty to share a few days before the event is held.
A note to advisors: We understand you may not be able to attend the entire event, but we will provide an approximate schedule a few days before so that you can attend your student’s talks in person or virtually.
Overview
We ask that students prepare a lightning talk to present their research.
What is a lightning talk?
A lightning talk is a short presentation that highlights a research project. For the symposium students should prepare 4 Power Point slides that will be presented in person with a 2 minute time limit. The first slide will serve as a transition. Talks should focus on providing short concise statements on a research question(s) and its importance, methods, and results/preliminary results. Following a group of student talks, we will have a short question/answer session and then move to the next block of student lightning talks.
Suggested lightning talk organization:
- Slide 1: Your name, department, advisor(s) & colleagues, project title
- Slide 2: Research question & importance of your research
- Slide 3: Method(s) you are using to answer your research question
- Slide 4: Results. This might be one key figure that you explain with a clear statement of your findings. If you don’t have results yet, you can mention what you anticipate to find or learn, what problems you encountered and how you addressing them, or why this research is interesting to you.
Actions for students
- RSVP to the event by October 30th by completing the form emailed to you. If you are attending you will provide a title for your presentation.
- Upload your lightning talk no later than November 9th to the link emailed to you.
Questions? Please reach out to Erin DiMaggio (dimaggio@psu.edu)
Research Symposium Media
Below are recordings and photos of past WMF Symposiums.
2024 WMF Symposium held on November 13th, 2024 [Photos on Flickr] [WMF Zoom Recording]
2023 WMF Symposium held on November 29th, 2023 [Photos on Flickr] [Zoom Recording]
2022 WMF Symposium held on November, 29th 2022 [Photos on Flickr]
2021 WMF Virtual Symposium held on November, 17th 2021 [Zoom Recording]
2020 WMF Virtual Symposium held on November 11, 2020 [Zoom Recording]