33rd Annual
Central California Student Research Symposium
California State University, Fresno
University Business Center
Friday, April 13, 2012
9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Call for Abstracts

Submission Deadline:
Sunday, March 4, 2012 11:59 p.m.

Submission Site:
http://orsp.csufresno.edu/abstracts12.asp

• The purpose of the Symposium is to share recent research with community investigators in various fields, college students, and faculty as well as to encourage research activities in the Central Valley. All fields of research will be considered for presentation to exchange further ideas among investigators and the general public.
• Comparative analysis, data, and results of completed research or research in advanced stages of completion must be described in the abstract.  Authors should indicate their preference for either an oral or a poster presentation.
• Presentation will be selected by a committee based on the following criteria:  scholarly merit appropriate to the discipline, creativity, timeliness, value, and clarity to an audience of scholars not necessarily from the same discipline.  The most frequent reason for rejection of proposals is absence of results.  Abstracts should not contain technical jargon and undefined symbols. 
• Oral presentations will be limited to 15 minutes followed by discussion. Notification of acceptance will specify location and exact time of presentation.  Because of limited facilities, no more than one presentation may be made by an individual author.  This does not preclude a co-author from making a presentation.
• Details of the poster format will be provided to authors selected for a poster presentation.  Abstracts must be submitted for selection of poster as well as oral presentations.  All abstracts selected for presentation will be published in the Central California Research Symposium Proceedings.
• Student awards followed by a social hour will conclude the symposium.

Please contact Maral Kismetian at (559) 278-0856 or mkismetian@csufresno.edu should you have any questions.