Submission information

Submission deadline

To be considered for a presentation, all submissions are due no later than Friday, April 24th, 2026. Students will be notified in early May to confirm whether they have been selected to present.

Presentation policies

Students may present only once at SRCCon, either an oral presentation, a poster session, or for a creative arts showcase (creative arts showcases must be directly arranged with the UGR director, Tara Roth at UGR@seattleu.edu).
The research or creative work must have been produced within the last academic year: Summer 25, Fall 25, Winter 26, or Spring 26.
Projects do not need to be completed at the time of presentation—works in progress are okay.
Presenters must have a faculty member who supported them with their project, either as a mentor, advisor, or faculty instructor for a course. Here is the Faculty Mentor Form - 2026 SRCCon. (If your faculty mentor is on sabbatical or no longer at SU, you may ask another SU faculty member within the field to review your work and complete the form.)
Presenters must be currently enrolled at Seattle University to present.
If your project involves human subjects, IRB approval is required.
Students must be the author or creator on all projects presented, under the guidance of a faculty mentor—please do not submit student-faculty co-authored papers to SRCCon.

Archiving your work in ScholarWorks

All students who present at SRCCon are encouraged, but not required, to add your presentation to ScholarWorks, Seattle University's Institutional Repository where student, staff, and faculty works are saved and archived. This is something you will need to grant permission for after your presentation has been accepted.

Submission form requirements and explanations

Be sure to gather all information required on the submission form before starting the application. Below you can preview the questions, plus detailed explanations.

Important documents you will be asked to upload

A completed/signed faculty mentor form is required in order to complete your application. Reach out to your faculty mentor to ask if they will support your conference application, and, if they agree, send them this Faculty Mentor Form. The form should only take them a few minutes to complete, but please give them sufficient time to return it to you—don’t wait until the final deadline to request it, as late submissions cannot be accepted.
If your project required IRB approval (and you received an exemption letter), please make sure you have this documentation on hand, as you will be required to upload it.

Application Questions & Explanations

1-5) Author info: name, SU email address, academic major, academic status (1st year, second year, third year, fourth year, or graduate, and co-presenter name(s), if applicable

6) Your college, school, or program

7) Where was the research or creative work produced? (Choose one):

Coursework in my major
Coursework in the Core
Independent study
Research conducted in a lab
Other

8-9) About your faculty mentor: Name, department, and SU email More information about the faculty mentor role:

All presenters must have a faculty mentor to be considered for SRCCon. A faculty mentor is the SU faculty member who supported you in your research or creative project, either as your instructor for a course in which the work was done or in an advisory role outside of the classroom.
If your faculty mentor is on sabbatical or no longer at SU, you may ask another SU faculty member within the field to review your work and complete the form of support/mentorship.

10) Upload a completed/signed Faculty Mentor Form - 2026 SRCCon (digital signature is fine), which states that they support your submission to present at SRCCon.

Do verify that you are uploading a completed form and not a blank form (a missing or blank form would make you ineligible to present). We recommend saving/adding the faculty member’s last name to the name of the mentor form before you attach it.

11) Presentation Title

12) Presentation Format (Choose one): Oral Presentation OR Panel Session
More Info about Oral Presentations:

These are 15-20 minute presentations to be given within a 1-hour panel session.
Oral presentations will be made up of both disciplinary and interdisciplinary panels of 3-4 students and will be arranged by the organizing committee.
You may share any type of researched work on a panel, including a creative project (such as a creative writing piece that included a research component)
All presentation rooms are equipped with a podium and a computer/projector, if you wish to use slides during your talk. Some students choose to read directly from a paper without slides—the choice is yours, and you do not need to indicate this at the time of submission.
If you co-authored a paper with a peer, and they gave you permission to present the paper on their behalf, you may submit it to SRCCon, but only you will be listed as the presenter in the program. (During your presentation, please do acknowledge your co-author to your audience.)
If you co-authored a paper with a peer, and they would like to co-present with you, let us know this at the end of the application. Write their name, email address, and major in the comments box (the very last question of the application), so that we can include them in the conference program. Only one person will need to submit an application to SRCCon if it is for the same, co-authored paper.
If you are interested in presenting your work on the same panel as a peer who has submitted their own separate submission form (research or creative work) to SRCCon, indicate their name in the comments section at the end, and tell us that you would like to be placed together on a panel—while the planning committee cannot guarantee you will be placed on the same panel, we will do our best to accommodate requests.

Poster Sessions are multidisciplinary and take place over a 1-hour time slot on the 3rd floor of the Lemieux Library. You are expected to be present for the hour; you will have a choice of a morning or afternoon session (see times below).
Students are required to print their own posters and will be asked to drop them off in the morning the day-of the conference. Be sure to print well in advance of the conference date, as Reprographics may require 2-3 weeks lead time for print jobs.

In attaching your abstract or artist statement and submitting this project to this conference, you certify that this is your own (and your co-author’s) original work and is free of plagiarism, falsification, or fabrication.
Abstract should include: 1) Statement of hypothesis, thesis, purpose, or question of study, 2) General methods, procedures, sources, or media used, 3) Primary results, findings, or arguments, 4) Primary conclusion/implication of the work, and 5) General statement of the significance of the research or creative work.
Artist statement should include: 1) Medium, materials and methods, 2) Subject matter, and 3) Description of your work's unique contribution to the area of inquiry.

9:30am-10:30am
10:45am-11:45am
1:30pm-2:30pm
2:45pm-3:45pm
4:00pm-5:00pm

10:00am-11:00am
3:00pm-4:00pm

These are terms that are helpful to the planning committee when organizing your presentations on panels or poster sessions. Keyword examples: social equity; entomology; environmental sustainability; neurodiversity; racial justice; etc.

including their full name, email address, and major.