Abstract submissions (see form below) will be opening soon and are due NO LATER THAN 5 p.m. Monday, March 18. After this time the abstract submission portal will be disabled.
Please submit an abstract of your research project using the form at the link below. Your abstract will be evaluated by the Discover steering committee and accepted for poster submission on a rolling basis.
Discover Research 2024 Abstract Submission FormAn abstract is a short summary of your research poster, about a paragraph (c. 6-7 sentences, 200 words) long. A well-written abstract serves multiple purposes:
- an abstract lets readers get the gist or essence of your poster or research project quickly.
- an abstract prepares readers to follow the detailed information, analyses, and arguments in your full poster and research project.
- later, an abstract helps readers remember key points from your paper.
Here are the typical kinds of information found in most abstracts:
- the context or background information for your research; the general topic under study; the specific topic of your research
- the central questions or statement of the problem your research addresses
- what’s already known about this question, what previous research has done or shown?
- Why is it important to address these questions? Are you, for example, examining a new topic? Why is that topic worth examining? Are you filling a gap in previous research? Applying new methods to take a fresh look at existing ideas or data?
- your research and/or analytical methods
- your main findings and results
- the significance or implications of your findings or arguments.
Your abstract should stand on its own, without a reader’s having to read or see the full poster. And in an abstract, you usually do not cite references—most of your abstract will describe what you have studied in your research and what you have found and what you argue in your paper. You may include the references or citation on the poster.