Conference proceedings and pictures from the 2008 CAURS have been posted here.
The American Undergraduate Research Society (AURS) is proud to present the Chicago Area Undergraduate Research Symposium, an annual event held each spring that allows hundreds of undergraduates from six outstanding Chicago area universities the opportunity to present their research results in a professional setting. Any undergraduate student conducting research, from the sciences to the humanities, is invited to submit an application and abstract.
CAURS provides an excellent opportunity for students to learn about the research of their peers, speak to the attending university faculty, interact with industry representatives, and receive both wisdom and inspiration from the invited speakers. Members of the larger Chicago and Midwest scientific research community are invited to attend. This unique event is a collaboration involving the University of Chicago, the University of Illinois at Chicago, Loyola University Chicago, Illinois Institute of Technology, DePaul University, and Northwestern University.
At the symposium, students may present their work as either a poster or oral presentation, or both. Posters are set up on easels for the duration of the day. Poster presenters need to be on hand to answer questions about their project during the poster session. Judges from the six participating schools review the poster presentations. Oral presenters are allotted 8-10 minutes for a presentation followed by a 5-minute question-and-answer period. A faculty moderator coordinates each session and may also facilitate the discussion. Breaks are scheduled throughout the day for informal discussion of research topics and objectives.
Do you have any photographs from your research that you would like to exhibited at the symposium? We are looking for any slides, photographs, data plots, movies, or other visual representations of work to put on display during the event. Anyone is invited to submit their work to info@caurs.com, whether or not they are presenting at the conference.
The culminating part of each symposium is the banquet and awards ceremony. After dinner and as everyone sits down for dessert, awards are presented for the top abstracts, talks, and posters.
