Abstract Submission

Submission Guidelines Students apply to present their work by submitting a proposal in the form of a brief abstract, limited to 300 words. Abstracts are reviewed by faculty from appropriate disciplines. Students will be notified if their proposal was accepted and be matched with a faculty mentor to guide them through the process. Participating students must be willing to invest time in completing the research and preparing their presentation. Students who wish to present their faculty-mentored research must submit an abstract by:
Early Acceptance	January 17, 2017
Final Acceptance	February 16, 2017

Submit your research topic and abstract to the Faculty Committee for review. Not sure how to do an abstract?  Here is an example:

Murder, Intrigue and Obsession: Criminology in Victorian England

In this paper, I will examine how crime affected the Victorian culture. The Victorians valued a certain concept of “normalcy.” When a person defied that concept, the people who conformed were intrigued by it. I will explore how Francis Galton’s studies in statistics and eugenics contributed to popular thoughts on criminals and popular vocabulary to refer to criminals. In particular, Victorians referred to criminals as “deviants,” which is a statistical term. Prisons also began to photograph convicts’ faces and hands to discover a genetic way to predict a person’s deviancy. The Victorians’ obsession with deviancy can be seen in the popular news stories of the era: the coverage of the Jack the Ripper murders, the Mannings murder, and the Amelia Dyer case. This obsession with crime became part of Victorian popular culture through detective fiction. I will be looking at the works and lives of Wilkie Collins and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Thanks to Elizabeth Sconyers for allowing us to use her abstract!