THE TWENTY-SIXTH ANNUAL
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY
STUDENT RESEARCH COMPETITION
May 4-5, 2012
California State University, Long Beach
Application Guidelines | Student Delegation Form
The competition is held to promote excellence in undergraduate and graduate scholarly research and creative activity by recognizing outstanding student accomplishments throughout the twenty-three campuses of the California State University.
WHO MAY APPLY
Undergraduate or graduate students currently enrolled at any CSU campus as well as alumni/alumnae who received their degrees in Spring, Summer, or Fall 2011 are eligible. The research presented should be appropriate to the student’s discipline and career goals. Proprietary research is excluded. Presentations from all disciplines are invited. There will be separate undergraduate and graduate divisions for each of the following categories (unless a division has four or fewer entrants, in which case undergraduate and graduate divisions may be combined). The California State University, Long Beach steering committee reserves the right to combine or subdivide these categories or to move an entrant from one category to another, as numbers of submissions necessitate. The ten categories are as follows:
• Behavioral and Social Sciences
• Biological and Agricultural Sciences
• Business, Economics, and Public Administration
• Creative Arts and Design (creative projects are welcome—see "Competition Guidelines")
• Education
• Engineering and Computer Science
• Health, Nutrition, and Clinical Sciences
• Humanities and Letters
• Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• Interdisciplinary
HOW TO APPLY
Our campus, the California State University, Fresno, will choose the ten entries that will represent Fresno State at the CSU wide competition. In order to apply, please follow the steps outlined below:
1) Submit your abstract to the 33rd Annual Central California Research Symposium.
In order to be eligible for the Student Research Competition, you must submit an abstract and present at the Central California Research Symposium which will be held on Friday April 13, 2012 at California State University, Fresno.
Please submit your abstract to http://orsp.csufresno.edu/abstracts12.asp
by Sunday March 4, 2012 11:59 p.m.
2) Submit the student delegation form and your research summary to orsp@csufresno.edu by Wednesday March 7, 2012 5:00 p.m.
• The summary must include the name(s) of the student(s) and the title of the presentation.
• The narrative may not exceed five doubled-spaced pages. Use fonts and margins that ensure legibility.
• Appendices (bibliography, graphs, photographs, or other supplementary materials) may not exceed three pages.
• Research that has human or animal subjects involvement must have appropriate institutional review.
You will receive a notification from our office by Wednesday March 14, 2012. If you were chosen to represent the University, you will then be instructed on how to submit your application to the California State University, Long Beach.
QUESTIONS
For any questions, please contact Maral Kismetian at (559) 278-0856 or mkismetian@csufresno.edu.