Innovate UNO

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.

Symposium: March 8-10, 2023
Presenter registration closes on February 3, 2023.

Resources

2021 Awards Ceremony 2021 Moodle 2021 Presentations 2021 Winners How to Include on Resumes

Welcome to InnovateUNO

Guidelines

Program

Date	Deadline
All dates updated* as of 1/5/2023*
January 5, 2023	Registration Opens Register now if you are interested in presenting, judging, or volunteering!
February 3, 2023	Presenters' Registration Closes After this date, you can no longer register to present at InnovateUNO.
February 10, 2023	Notification of Acceptance The Office of Research will notify you if your application to present has been accepted.
February 17, 2023	Judges' Registration Closes After this date, you can no longer register to be a judge at InnovateUNO.
February 24, 2023	Abstracts Due After this date, you can no longer submit or modify the abstract for your project.
February 24, 2023	Notification of Presentation Time/Location The Office of Research will notify you of your exact presentation time and location on this date.
March 3, 2023	Presentation Materials Due If you are giving an oral presentation, film presentation, or visual arts presentation, you must email the relevant presentation materials to innovate@uno.edu by 4:30 PM. Relevant materials are listed in the individual category guidelines.
March 6, 2023 10:00 AM	Visual Arts Set-Up Visual arts presenters must deliver their work to the Fine Arts Gallery before March 6, 2023 at 10:00 AM.
March 7, 2023 12:00 PM–4:15 PM	Poster Set-Up Poster presenters must deliver their poster to LIB 401 on March 7, 2023 between noon and 4:15 PM.
March 8-9, 2023	InnovateUNO Research Symposium Attend presentations on research, creativity, and scholarly projects by UNO students, faculty, and staff!
March 10, 2023 1:30 PM	InnovateUNO Awards Ceremony! The Office of Research will host the InnovateUNO Awards Ceremony in conjunction with ARCS in the UC Ballroom.

Presenters

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.

Group Presentations

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.

Judges

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.

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.

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