SCCUR Presentation & ABstract Submission Process and Guidelines The 2003 Southern California Conference on Undergraduate Research (SCCUR) will take place on November 22, 2003, at the UC Irvine Student Center from 8 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Here is an in-depth look at the process of submitting your presentation information and the different presentation formats. P RESENTATION & A BSTRACT include a Web site link with the code already S UBMISSION F ORM P ROCESS embedded so they can easily access the submis- sion. Any edits will need to be completed by the � Undergraduate students who wish to present deadline for submission, which is Monday, their faculty-mentored research or scholarly/cre- October 13, 2003 . ative activity at SCCUR must complete the Once the deadline for submission has passed, � Presentation & Abstract Submission Form. the review process will start. Completion of this form is due no later than Monday, October 13, 2003 . � Once the review is complete, student presenter(s) and faculty mentor(s) will be sent � On the form, submitters will indicate the number an e-mail notifying them if the submission was of student presenters and the number of men- accepted, not accepted, or needs modification tors associated with their particular project and (which will need to be completed immediately) presentation. Submitters will also be asked to before a final decision can be made. This should provide information on themselves, their men- be received by Friday, October 24, 2003 . It tor(s), and other undergraduate presenters, if will also prompt student presenter(s) and faculty applicable. This includes identifying whether pre- mentor(s) to register for the conference, if they senters and faculty mentors are high school stu- haven't already done so, and ask them to send dents or mentors, community college students or e-mail invitations to any guests that they wish to mentors, four-year college or university students invite through an automated system. These e- or mentors, or UC Irvine students or mentors. mail invitations to guests will introduce them to Please note that in the case of group presenta- the conference and invite them to register. tions, only one submission per project is needed. Faculty mentors can also invite their colleagues � Next, student presenters will also be asked to to register. Once a presentation has been sched- upload/attach an electronic version of their pro- uled, student presenters, faculty mentors, and ject's abstract. They will also be asked to indi- their guests associated with that particular pres- cate whether their faculty mentor(s) has entation will receive a final e-mail notification approved the abstract. In the heading of the about the time and place of the presentation and abstract, please include any additional under- directions to the conference site. graduate co-authors who are not presenting at SCCUR. For more details, please review the P RESENTATION F ORMAT Abstract Guidelines. S UBMISSION G UIDELINES Submitters will also be asked about the details of � their presentation, including the title of the proj- Poster Presentations ect/presentation, whether it's an oral or poster Poster presentations are displays on poster boards. presentation, the area of research for the proj- Instead of a board, poster presenters can request a ect, and the equipment needed for the table to display objects including models, devices, or presentation. artwork. Poster boards must be 3' or 4' (height) by � A confirmation via e-mail will be sent to the stu- 4' (width). These can be purchased at a stationery, dent presenter(s) and faculty mentor(s) once the office supply, or art supply store. submission has been received. This confirmation will include a code that allows them to access and Presentations should be prepared on poster board in update the submission. The e-mail will also advance. If this is not possible because of difficulty Q UESTIONS ? C ONTACT SCCUR AT UC I RVINE , P H : 949-824-4189, E- MAIL : SCCUR @ UCI . EDU , W EB : WWW . SCCUR . UCI . EDU
transporting your poster board, poster board can be MUSIC requested for the day of the conference. Please note Participants may perform in one of the following that we are providing only 3' (height) by 4'(width) categories: sized poster board. Pushpins, glue, and other mate- (A) Original composition rials needed to assemble the poster board will be (B) Composition in the style of a specific musi- provided (a room for poster assembly will also be cal period, style, or composer available). (C) Arranging (D) Performance Presenters must be available to discuss their dis- (E) Lecture recital plays during their assigned poster session. A few (F) Research and/or analysis specifics on the poster boards include: posters must be readable from at least three feet away, the pres- Resources available at UC Irvine include playback for entation title must be at least two inches high, and cassette/CD (in a classroom setting only) and a beneath the title, the name(s) of the student piano. For categories A, B, and C, students must sub- author(s), faculty advisor, and home institution mit a full score (or significant portion of a score if must be at least one inch high. SCCUR reserves the work is in progress) plus a cassette cued to the per- right to cancel a presenter's poster session if the formance. A full score must be available at the time above requirements are not met. See the of the presentation. For category D, students must Presentation Guidelines for more specific informa- submit a cassette cued to the performance. For cate- tion on how to prepare a poster presentation. gories E and F , students should follow the standard SCCUR format. Name, school, address, phone num- Oral Presentations ber, title, composer, and type of musical Oral presentations will be 15 minutes in length with instrument(s) must be attached to the submitted cas- three additional minutes allotted for a question-and- sette. Cassettes should be mailed to the UC Irvine answer period. This schedule will be strictly address for SCCUR 2003. enforced. See the Presentation Guidelines for more specific information on how to prepare an oral DANCE presentation. Participants may perform solo and as a small ensem- ble (up to four dancers) in modern dance, jazz, or Performing Arts/Visual Arts ballet. In addition to the abstract, students must sub- Presentations mit a videotape cued to the performance. Name, Performing Arts/Visual Arts presentations are con- school, address, phone number , title, choreographer , sidered Oral Presentations since they are executed and idiom of the piece must be attached to the sub- in the same format: up to 15 minutes for a perform- mitted videotape. Videotapes should be mailed to the ance with three additional minutes allotted for a UC Irvine address for SCCUR 2003. question-and-answer period. Performing arts pre- sentations may include creative activities in music, THEATRE dance and theater, and visual arts presentations can Participants may present monologues or scenes (up be done in drawing, painting, printmaking, photog- to five actors). In addition to the abstract, students raphy, sculpture, ceramics, mixed media, video and must submit a script (and cued videotape of per- film. The number of abstracts accepted in the per- formance, if possible). Name, school, address, forming arts or in the visual arts may be determined phone number, and title of the piece must be by available space. attached to the submitted script and videotape. Scripts and videotapes should be mailed to the UC An abstract is required for presenters in the per- Irvine address for SCCUR 2003. forming arts or the visual arts. The abstract for the performing arts should describe the performance. DRAWING , PAINTING , PRINTMAKING , The abstract for the visual arts should describe the PHOTOGRAPHY , SCULPTURE , CERAMICS , visual art research question, methodology, and out- AND OTHER APPLIED ARTS comes. Artwork must be serial in nature. In addi- In addition to the abstract, students must submit six tion to submitting an abstract, those in the slides or transparencies of their work, completed or performing and visual arts will have to submit in progress, and an artist's statement. For three- additional materials that are outlined in the dimensional work, two views of each piece should be presentation and submission guidelines for included. If slides or transparencies are not avail- each arts category: able, participants can send a PC-formatted disk or Q UESTIONS ? C ONTACT SCCUR AT UC I RVINE , P H : 949-824-4189, E- MAIL : SCCUR @ UCI . EDU , W EB : WWW . SCCUR . UCI . EDU
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