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When registering for the symposium, students will indicate whether or not they want to be considered for poster prizes. Those students who want to be considered will be required to submit a .jpg file of their poster by the deadline indicated. A link to the poster submission form will be sent to those students after they register.
Note: Students who do not want to be considered for poster prizes do not have to submit their poster ahead of time.
Reminder: All students, including those who submitted their poster for prize consideration, should print out their own actual poster and bring it to the symposium. Click here for instructions on printing and where to print, etc.
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Poster Prize Categories - Summer 2025
- Best in STEM
- Best in Humanities and Fine Arts
- Best in Wellness, Health and Medicine
- Best in Social Sciences
Poster Prize Categories - Spring 2025
- Best in STEM
- Best in Humanities and Fine Arts
- Best in Wellness, Health and Medicine
- Best in Social Sciences
- Best in Interdisciplinary
- Best in Societal Impact
- Strong detailing of the role of the impact the research has on the community (Utah or elsewhere) through visuals/text.
- Visuals / Text illuminate how the research will positively impact people, communities, and the broader society.
- Best Research Narrative
- Strong writing style that concisely and clearly tells the research story
- Effective communication of research development, results, and findings to nonexperts.
- Best Citations/Literature Review
- Provides a QR code to a full citation/bibliography document or webpage.
- Strong use of citation and literature accurately cites research using field standards (APA, MLA, Chicago, or ASA).
- Strong use of citation shows a diversity of citations - scholarly, nonscholarly, journal and book diversity.
- Best Use of Poster Visuals
- Effective and meaningful use of layout, colors, typeface, icons, images, and graphics.
- Balance between visuals, text, and negative space.
- Visuals support and augment the research report
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Posters submitted for poster prize consideration will reviewed by evaluators. These evaluators will score posters based on the category the poster is being considered for. A committee will convene and review all scores and determine winning posters based on scores.
During the symposium, poster evaluators also evaluate all presentations. Poster presentations will be evaluated by faculty, graduate student, and postdoctoral scholar raters against undergraduate research learning outcomes identified by the OUR. The poster evaluators will use the below rubric. Rating Rubric
For questions, contact our@utah.edu.
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We are grateful to the 65 poster evaluators who reviewed the posters submitted for the Spring Symposium 2025 poster prizes. Thank you also to the following poster prize committee members:
- Annie Isabel Fukushima, Associate Dean, Undergraduate Studies and Director, Office of Undergraduate Research
- Greg Hatch, Creativity & Innovation Services Head, Marriott Library
- Shane Wallace, Associate Librarian, Marriott Library
- Shelly Parker, Program Manager, Office of Undergraduate Research
- Angie Levia, Academic Program Coordinator, Office of Undergraduate Research
- Bradley DeBoer, Outreach Coordinator, Office of Undergraduate Research
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The poster prizes were made possible by our generous 2024-2025 bronze sponsors Maschoff Brennan and Northrup Grumman.
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