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• Detailed Registration Directions
  1. Go to
  2. Click Submit Event (in the left-hand sidebar)
  3. Login with your NetID and password
  4. Read and accept the submission agreement and click Continue
  5. Complete the upload form:

  • Project Title
  • Author Information: Please include all authors’ names except for your mentor. IMPORTANT: Please make sure to enter your NetID email address (example: ww123456@umconnect.umt.edu). Without your NetID email address here, you will not be able to make revisions to your submission later.
  • Co-Presenter: Indicate whether or not you will be the sole presenter/performer.
  • Project Type: Performance, Poster, or Oral Presentation. (Choose a “campus access only” option if your faculty mentor insists that access to your performance/presentation/poster should be restricted to campus members only.)
  • Student’s Major
  • Project Funding and Affiliations (if applicable)
  • Faculty Mentor’s Full Name
  • Faculty Mentor’s Department
  • Faculty Mentor’s Email Address
  • Additional Mentor (if applicable)
  • Abstract/Artist’s Statement
  • Category (choose):
    • Humanities
    • Franke Global Leadership Initiative
    • Life Sciences
    • Physical Sciences
    • Social Sciences
    • Visual and Performing Arts (including Creative Writing)
  • Mentor Reviewed: Indicate whether or not your mentor has reviewed your abstract.
  • Generative AI: Confirm that you did not use generative AI to write your abstract or artist’s statement.
  • Preferred Presentation Time (choose):
    • Oral Presentations: 9-10:30am
    • Oral Presentations: 1-2:30pm
    • Oral Presentations: 3:30-5pm
    • GLI Presentations – throughout the day
    • Poster Presentations: 10:45-11:45am
    • Poster Presentations: 2:30-3:30pm
    • Musical Performances: 1-3pm
    • Literary Arts, Visual Arts, and Theatrical Performances: 3:30-5pm
  • Skip the next 5 fields.
  • Required Workshop Attendance: Select from the options.
  • Conference Featured Events: Select from the options.
  • Accessibility Needs or Accommodations: List any needs you have.
  • UMCUR Award Consideration: Check the box if you would like your project to be evaluated and considered for an award.
  • Photo and Video Release
  • Click Submit.

        6. Log Out

  Please contact Catalina de Onís, Director, Office of Undergraduate Research, if you have any questions about UMCUR.

  Please contact Wendy Walker, Digital Initiatives Librarian, if you have any questions or problems related to ScholarWorks.

• Difference between Oral and Poster Presentations
  • Oral presentations are 15 minutes long (12 minutes for presentation and 3 minutes for questions). Presenters will have the option to use presentation slides during their talk. Oral presentations are a good option if you (1) have a detailed project that you can guide the audience through; (2) are comfortable with or are seeking practice delivering professional talks; and (3) would like to engage with many people at once.
  • During a poster presentation, you will be by your poster and speak with people who are interested in your work. Poster sessions are an hour long, and you will be asked to be with your poster for the entire hour. A poster presentation can be a good option if you (1) would like to engage in more informal, individual conversations; (2) have visually complex information or very technical information; or (3) have a project that is in the early stages or that you are seeking suggestions on to inform continued work.   
• Project Categories (with examples)

  Project categories are used to group similar performances and presentations together. When you submit your abstract or artist's statement, you will need to select the category that best fits the field of your work. The five categories are:

  • Humanities – e.g., ancient and modern languages, literature, philosophy, ethics, history and art history, law, religion, journalism, communication, critical and theoretical approaches to the arts
  • Life Sciences – study of living things, e.g., ecology, biology, botany, wildlife biology, microbiology, genetics, physiology, neuroscience, biochemistry, paleontology
  • Physical Sciences – e.g., astronomy, physics, chemistry, meteorology, geology
  • Social Sciences – e.g., anthropology, archeology, economics, political science, psychology, sociology
  • Visual and Performing Arts - projects focused on student-created arts; e.g., music, drama, dance, film, art, sculpture, poetry, creative writing, etc. 

  Franke Global Leadership Initiative (GLI) presentations are their own category.

• Requirements for an Abstract/Artist's Statement

  Abstract/Artist's Statement 

  Your UMCUR abstract or artist's statement must be specific to this presentation or performance and should be 200-250 words. This submission should not be an abstract/artist's statement that you previously submitted for an award application or other purpose; rather, this submission should be revised to reflect your most recent work on the project (as applicable to your field). Please describe your project in a manner that is understandable and relevant to a general audience. Avoid complex language and excessive details without oversimplifying your project. Visual and performing artists, please include the medium, a room set-up description, or work dimensions, in inches, in your statement.

  • What is your project topic or focus, and what is the problem, issue, or possibility examined?
  • What is your guiding question and/or reason for doing this project?
  • What method(s)/approach(es) did you use to carry out this project? Explain the process behind your work.
  • What is your main argument, response, prediction(s), or finding(s)? (For Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ still analyzing data or producing project-related materials, you may have in-progress content, predictions, and ideas that aren’t finalized.)
  • What is the project's significance and contribution to your field and/or to society? Why is your work important, or potentially important, and for whom?

  Visit the UMCUR website Resources page for more information.

• Revising Submissions and Adding Files to ScholarWorks

  Download a document version of these directions. 

  Before you get started:

  • This time you will be revising the record you created when you submitted your abstract/artist’s statement. DO NOT create a new submission record.
  • The person who created the record in ScholarWorks must also be the person who uploads the file(s).

   

  Navigate to your UMCUR submission:

  1. Go to /umcur 
  2. Click on My Account, then click the Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ NetID Login link, and login with your NetID and password. (If you did not include your NetID email when you submitted your project abstract/artist’s statement, you will not be able to access your submission. In that case, please contact Wendy Walker.)
  3. After you login, you should see the title of your presentation/performance as a link to the record that you created when you submitted your abstract/artist’s statement. Click this link.
  4. On the next screen, click Revise Submission in the upper left-hand navigation menu.
  5. You should now see the same upload form that you completed when you submitted your abstract/artist’s statement, with all of your information filled in. Scroll down until you see the Presentation/Poster/Performance File
  6. Read the appropriate set of instructions below for next steps.

  Next steps for POSTER PRESENTERS whose posters will be printed at the Paw Print:

  1. Presentation/Poster/Performance File: Upload your final poster PDF file here.
  2. Poster Ready: Check this box when your poster is ready to be printed. (Remember: UMCUR will only pay for your poster to be printed one time, so make sure your poster is ready to be printed before you check this box.)
  3. Preferred Contact Information: Enter your preferred contact information (email or phone) so that Paw Print staff can notify you when your poster is ready to be picked up.
  4. Poster Display: Check this box if you are willing to give the library permission to digitally display your poster on monitors in the library.
  5. If you wish to add a recording of your poster presentation, click the Additional Files checkbox and carefully follow the instructions on the next screen. (Otherwise, skip this field.)
  6. Click Submit
  7. You may logout after you have received confirmation that your record has been successfully revised (your file has been uploaded).

  Next steps for all other presenters/performers:

  1. Presentation/Poster/Performance File: Upload your oral presentation or performance file here. If all you have is a video file, you may upload it here. (If you have presentation slides and a video file, upload the slides here. Video and other additional files may be uploaded using the Additional Files See step 5 below.)
  2. Poster Ready: Skip this field.
  3. Preferred Contact Information: Skip this field.
  4. Poster Display: Skip this field.
  5. Additional Files: If you wish to add a recording of your presentation or performance, click the checkbox and carefully follow the instructions on the next screen. Skip this field if you do not have additional files to upload.
  6. Click Submit
  7. You may logout after you have received confirmation that your record has been successfully revised (your file has been uploaded).

  If you need help with the upload process, email Wendy Walker.