2012 Undergraduate Research Conference
Call for Projects
We are now accepting proposals for the 2012 People, Ideas, and Things Undergrate Research Conference. Aligned with the PIT Journal’s core mission, this undergraduate research conference is designed to provide students with a forum for producing scholarship and sharing it with the members of our campus community. We host this conference to provide UNC undergraduates with an opportunity to make their research public, to network with other undergraduate scholars, and make connections with graduate students and faculty who are interested in supporting undergraduate research.
The PIT Undergraduate Research Conference is deliberately open in format and accepts submissions from undergraduate students in any major. Traditional conference presentations, scientific poster presentations, and scholarly multi-media projects are all welcome. Whether you are writing a senior thesis or doing research in a lab as part of a team, we encourage all UNC students who are conducting research to submit a proposal to present their work -- we want to hear about the research projects you are working on and especially how you are building new knowledge with your work.
Submission Guidelines
Conference proposals should
- be between 250 and 500 words
- clearly present an original undergraduate research project
- be driven by thoughtful and original research questions
- be clearly situated in an existing academic discipline
- demonstrate how the project builds on existing research in the field
- demonstrate how the project adds something new to what is already known about the problem or issue being studied
Deadline to submit first draft conference proposal: Feb 10, 2012
Deadline to submit revised conference proposal Feb 17, 2012
Get feedback and revise your proposal between Feb 10 and Feb 17
Event Details
Who: free to attend and open to the public
When: March 29 - March 30
Where: Room 3102, UNC Porter-Graham Student Union (near the fishtank)
How: submit a proposal
Students who are competitively selected to present at the PIT Conference can fulfill one of the requirements for the Carolina Research Scholar Program (CRSP). More information is available about the CRSP through UNC’s Office of Undergraduate Research.
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About Peersourcing
Peersourcing happens during what we call "Read, Rate, Review Cycles." Our first RRR Cycle will be from Feb 3 to Feb 10. This is a concentrated period during which time all participants read, rate,and review other people's submissions. This is the basis of peersourcing; in other words, it's an opportunity to get feedback from peers and to use that feedback to improve your own work.
Providing an authentic audience for undergraduate scholarship is a core mission of the PIT Journal. To this end, we use this process called “peersourcing” which combines theories of peer review and crowdsourcing to guide students through the process of drafting and revising propoals for the conference.
Peersourcing is an innovative approach to research and writing that brings online social networking philosophies to bear on traditional research, composing, and peer review practices. Grounded in a belief that writing, research, and scholarship are social practices, we rely on the UNC community to help us evaluate submissions through the online rating and review tools we offer. And likewise, we rely on writers to listen carefully to feedback from their readers because we think this will help produce better ideas and better scholarship.
Learn more about the PIT process.
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Photos from the 2011 PIT "Works in Progress" Conference
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