UNO's annual research symposium spotlights the investigative work being conducted on our campus and in our research community. If you are engaged in research, scholarly, creative, or innovative projects, you can use this platform to test your ideas, network with your peers, and share your success. Students can even win awards! Undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff can present their work as oral presentations, art displays, performances, or film screenings.
Date |
Deadline |
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| All dates updated as of 9/15/2021 | |
Postponed: September 16 |
Registration Opens Register if you are interested in presenting or judging! |
Postponed: October 15 |
Participants' Registration Closes After this date, you can no longer register to present at InnovateUNO. |
Postponed: October 22 |
Notification of Acceptance The Office of Research will notify you if your application to present has been accepted. |
| October 22, 2021 | Judges' Registration Closes After this date, you can no longer register to be a judge at InnovateUNO. |
| November 3, 2021 | Presentation Materials Due After this date, you can no longer submit your InnovateUNO presentation to Moodle. |
| November 8, 2021 | InnovateUNO Presentations Made Public! On this date, all presentations will be made available for review on the InnovateUNO Moodle page. Attend our symposium by reviewing the pre-recorded presentations at your convenience! |
| November 15, 2021 before 11:59 PM |
Evaluations Due Judges and peer-reviewing presenters must submit their evaluations via Microsoft Form by 11:59 PM. |
| November 18, 2021 12:30 PM |
InnovateUNO Awards Ceremony! The Office of Research will host the InnovateUNO Awards Ceremony! |
| December 10, 2021 | Deadline to nominate candidates for Undergraduate Research Mentor Award After this date, you can no longer nominate mentors for the Undergraduate Research Mentor Award. |
All current faculty, staff, and students at UNO may participate. All academic disciplines are encouraged to participate. Local high school students may participate if a UNO staff or faculty member registers on their behalf and uploads their presentation.
Work needs to be completed under the auspices of the University of New Orleans. This includes but is not limited to course/group projects, funded/non-funded projects, and projects completed in conjunction with internships/partnerships that are part of a UNO collaborative.
UNO students will be eligible for prizes, including the Privateer Choice awards, Tolmas Prize awards, and cash prizes in every category. Those who place in their categories may be invited to the ULS Academic Summit.
Throughout the fall semester, the Office of Research will host virtual office hours for assistance with pre-recording presentations virtual symposium.
Registration to present at InnovateUNO ends on October 15, 2021.
Groups must identify one person to be the lead presenter. Only the lead presenter should register through Eventbrite; the lead presenter should list any co-presenters and/or non-presenting collaborators.
If you are (1) a UNO faculty or staff member, or (2) a UNO graduate student, or (3) a subject matter expert in the private sector, we'd like you to help us assess our program participants.
Judges will be asked to evaluate participants' presentations using a standardized rubric. Judges will evaluate a small subset of presentations, and the scores will be averaged to determine the winners.
If you are a faculty mentor, you cannot judge the students you mentored.
All judges will be required to attend a judging orientation (schedule TBA).
Registration to serve as a judge ends on October 22, 2021.
The Office of Research, the Graduate School, and the Earl K. Long Library host this program. InnovateUNO is sponsored, in part, by the Oscar J. Tolmas Charitable Trust.
