Inquiry

The Office of Student Research (OSR) invites students to apply to The Collaborative Interdisciplinary Tutorials for Employment (CITE) Program, a research program for promising students with little or no research experience. The CITE Program introduces students to the research process and provides an opportunity to gain practical skills sought by employers, while providing an $1800 stipend. CITE Fellows collaborate within a research team whose members share similar interests and develop individual research interests in the interdisciplinary humanities through an exploration of topics related to race, ethnicity, media, popular culture, visual culture and more. CITE Fellows produce publicly accessible digital scholarship and receive professional development. The CITE Program is a partnership between The Office of Student Research and The Office of Citizen Leadership and Social Justice.

The deadline is February 28, 2018 at 5:00 p.m. has been extended to March 30, 2018 at 5:00 p.m.

2018 Call For Applications

2018 CITE Application

Please direct any questions to Dr. Crystal Anderson, Director, Office of Student Research, andersoncs2@longwood.edu.

The Office of Student Research (OSR) invites undergraduate students from all disciplines to submit to SPUR: Spring Presentation of Undergraduate Research, a refereed, all-digital presentation event and networking session to be held April 24, 2018, 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. in Martinelli Board Room. The deadline for submissions is March 30, 2018 April 13, 2018 at 5:00 p.m. Fresh-baked pastries, fruit, coffee and tea will be served.

OSR will showcase PowerPoint presentations as student researchers enjoy free food and share their experience with small groups of other students on Student Research Day.  All presentations will be uploaded to several publicly accessible online platforms prior to Student Research Day. Because of the digital nature of SPUR, students can also participate in the Symposium.

All submissions must be student-initiated, where the student develops or is substantially involved in developing the research question, purpose or theme.

All student researchers receive an OSR slingbag, and those with presentations with the highest views will receive a SPUR SwagBag, which includes a SPUR t-shirt, hat, water bottle , 8GB USB drive and power charging bank, all in a canvas SPUR bag.

What Can Students Submit. Students can submit any work where they ask a question and find evidence to answer it.  Examples include lesson plans, literary analyses, historical analyses, literature reviews, annotated bibliography, data coding, marketing plans, SWOT analyses, and more.

Previous SPUR Presentations

The Raven’s Demons: The Psychoanalytic Relationship Between Edgar Allen Poe’s Life and His Literary Works

Intergenerational Daycares: How They Can Benefit the Elderly Population and Children

We’re All Going to Die: Contrasting the Apocalypse in Night of the Living Dead and Neon Genesis Evangelion

Bring your idea or work to OSR and let us help you create an awesome presentation!

Benefits. Student work receives wide exposure beyond Longwood. Presentations are permanently housed in Digital Commons, the university’s institutional repository that is searchable via Google and other major search engines and linked to hundreds of colleges and universities around the world. Students can use the permalink for resumes, job applications, graduate school applications, websites and online profiles like LinkedIn.

How to Submit to SPUR

1. Create a digital presentation in PowerPoint and an abstract. OSR strongly recommends using the SPUR18 Digital Presentation Worksheet  and the Digital Presentation Sample to plan and design the presentation. Other file types will not be accepted. Animation and transitions may be stripped out of presentations when uploaded to online platforms.
2. Submit Digital Presentation and Abstract using the SPUR18 Submission Form.   (If you do not already have a Gmail account, you will have to create one).

Submissions will be reviewed using the SPUR Submission Rubric.  Students will receive a notification of acceptance or a request to revise and resubmit. Students are strongly encouraged to seek assistance from the Office of Student Research.

Deadlines

April 13, 2018 @ 5:00 p.m.: Submission deadline

April 20, 2018 @ 5:00 p.m.: Revision and resubmission deadline

Please direct any questions to Dr. Crystal Anderson, Director, Office of Student Research, andersoncs2@longwood.edu.

The Office of Student Research (OSR) offers awards up to $500 for single researchers, $1000 for two co-researchers and $1500 for three co-researchers to defray costs associated with engaging in student-initiated research, where 1) the student develops a question or is substantially involved in developing a research question, 2) conducts an inquiry or investigation using sources as evidence and 3) shares the results. Research includes creative activities in theatre, music, art and graphic arts and animation, projects in departments in arts and sciences as well as business and education.

Deadline: February 5, 2018 at 5:00 p.m. and March 13, 2018 March 26, 2018 at 5:00 p.m.

Spring 2018 Call for Application for Student Research Awards

Spring 2018 Student Research Award Application