Student Guides:
- Registration How-To
- Writing & Submitting your Intersections Abstract
- Sample Abstracts
- Presentation Skills
For Project Mentors and PIs:
Event Information
The Undergraduate Research Office will host Fall Intersections on Friday, December 5 in the Veale Convocation, Recreation, and Athletic Center.
Any undergraduate student participating in CWRU or CWRU affiliated faculty-mentored research and/or creative projects is eligible to register for Intersections. Research can be at any stage of the process, from initial exploration to final findings.
If you have any questions about participating in Intersections, please email ugresearch@case.edu.
Registration will open in late September.
Registration deadlines:
- Capstone Students:
- Registration Deadline: Sunday, October 19
- Abstract Submission Deadline: Sunday, November 2
- Non-Capstone Students:
- Registration Deadline: Sunday, November 2
- Abstract Submission Deadline: Sunday, November 2
- Principal Investigator Abstract Approval: Wednesday, November 5
Before You Register
- Inform your faculty project mentor (and Principal Investigator - PI) that you plan to present at Intersections, hosted by the Undergraduate Research Office. You need their approval for a public presentation of your work. Note: The PI is the primary grant recipient, not a graduate student, post-doc, or lab staff.
- Ask your PI to review your abstract prior to submitting it for Intersections. Inform them that after you submit the abstract, they will receive an email from Campus Groups directing them to approve your abstract. The PI abstract approval is the final required step in the registration process.
- If you are presenting as a group, determine who will complete the registration form and abstract submission. Groups are restricted to one registration submission.
- Review the Registration How-To
Registration will open in late September
If you have any questions, review the Registration How-To guide as well as the Intersections FAQs. If your questions are not answered there, email ugresearch@case.edu.
A completed registration consists of submitting both the online form and the faculty mentor-approved abstract, formatted according to the Abstract Guidelines.
Abstract Guidelines
After registration:
- The Undergraduate Research Office will inform presenters of their poster locations/numbers on or by Tuesday, December 2.
- Intersections Presenters only need to bring their posters. The Undergraduate Research Office will provide an easel, a board to hang the poster, and clips.
About: Faculty Mentor (Principal Investigator) Approval
Undergraduate research is always faculty mentored. Most undergraduate researchers' faculty mentors are the Principal Investigator who is the faculty member who "owns" the research, oversees the lab, hires the Post Docs, etc. The Undergraduate Research Office must know that the Principal Investigator approves of your plan to present your project at Intersections. We know this when your Principal Investigator approves your abstract.
CWRU students need not have conducted the research on the Case Western Reserve campus to present at Intersections (e.g. students who want to present their summer research). The research must have been done when students were undergraduates and not prior to your college enrollment. Presenters must provide the name, institution and email of the non-CWRU mentor (and PI if different) with whom they worked. The project mentor (or PI if different) must approve the research presentation by approving the abstract submission.