Submission Requirements

Next steps for those accepted to the Research Symposium: 

1) Develop a 5-10 slide PowerPoint presentation with voiceover. Presentations must meet the following parameters: 

  • PowerPoint presentation of 5-10 slides. 
  • Must be 3-5 minutes long. 
  • Must utilize the voiceover feature. 
  • Size is limited to 250 megabytes 
  • See below for a list of resources to help you develop your presentation. 
  • Here’s the judging rubric your presentation will be evaluated against

2) Submit your presentation via REDCap to the Office of Scholarly Activity on March 28, 2022 by 5:00 PM. 

  • Late submissions will not be accepted, nor will we accept revisions after this time. 
  • Instructions on how to submit your presentation via REDCap will be sent out by OSA by March 3.  
  • We recommend submitting your presentation to your mentor for their input by March 18. We will not send presentations for mentors to suggest changes before the Symposium.  

3) Participate in the asynchronous poster hall from April 8 – April 13. 

  • All presentations will be posted to the PNWU website. Each presentation will have a comments section where audience members can publicly submit comments and questions.  
  • You must respond to questions posted on your presentation by Tuesday, April 12 at 8:00 PM in order to be eligible for an award. 

4) Tune in to the keynote speech by Dr. Beth Pyatak and the Awards Ceremony on April 14, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM.  

  • OSA will send a calendar invite out to the campus community with a Zoom link.  
  • Awards, including prize money, will be given to the top two projects in each category: original research and quality improvement, case reports, and literature reviews. 

What to include in your presentation: 

  • Introduce yourself, your team, and your project. 
  • Describe your project. Use headers from your abstract to help format your PPT (introduction, methods, results, discussion, etc.) 
  • Include tables and figures that help make your point. Cite all images you did not create yourself. 
  • You don’t need to read everything on the slide, particularly when it comes to tables and figures; people watching your presentation can pause the presentation to read through tables and figures.  

The following resources will be useful in developing your presentation: 

Some notes on changes from last year’s Research Symposium: 

  • We are not requiring a poster PDF, just the PowerPoint presentation with voiceover. 
  • There is not a separate category for oral presentations. 


Contact OSA@pnwu.edu for any questions you may have regarding presenting at or attending the Research Symposium.