• Abstract submission deadline: Friday, February 27, by 5:00 pm
• Structure: For poster presentations, an abstract with a word limit of 250 words must be submitted. Abstracts should include purpose, objective, or hypothesis (as appropriate for your discipline), research methods, results/expected results, discussion, conclusion (as appropriate by discipline), and future directions of research.  
• Evaluation Criteria: Abstracts will be reviewed and selected for awards on the basis of the following criteria:  

1. Purpose/objective/hypothesis is stated clearly. 
2. Methods/materials are explained clearly. 
3. Results and findings support the conclusion and/or expected results/direction. 
4. Abstract is written in clear, grammatically correct language and follows the submission guidelines. 

• Abstract Publication: All abstracts will appear on the Symposium webpage. Carefully review your abstract prior to submission.

• Current graduate students and post-doctoral scholars from all Temple schools and colleges.
• Work must be endorsed by a Temple faculty member.
• The Graduate Symposium is an opportunity to bring our academic community together. We encourage all participants to attend the full event and support other students. 

• Content: Presentations should include the names of collaborators, advisor(s)/ mentor(s), department(s), purpose/objectives/hypotheses, research methods, results, and future directions of research. 
• Size: Posters may be no more than 4 feet wide and 3 feet high. We will provide numbered easels with poster boards and binder clips on which to mount your poster. 
• Printing Poster: The TECH Center has self-service color printers for large posters at a reasonable cost, typically under $10 for a 3’ by 4’ poster. 
• Set-Up: Poster presenters will be allowed to set up their display 10 minutes prior to the start of the poster presentation session. Poster presenters must remove poster displays immediately following the session.
• Hosting Display: Presenters are required to host their poster display during the entire assigned poster presentation period. During this time, presenters will discuss their scholarship and field questions not only from faculty but also from their graduate student peers.

Attendees will have opportunities to participate in breakout discussions on a range of broad scholarly topics co-led by graduate symposium presenters. Applicants are invited to indicate their interest in co-leading discussions within the application form.

• Apply here!
• Applications due: Friday, February 27, by 5:00 pm

• Reviewers can be faculty members, staff, Temple Alumni, or other members of the Temple community.
• Each reviewer is requested to provide feedback for at least 3 presentations.

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