InnovateUNO
Date | Deadline |
|---|---|
| Fall 2026 Schedule Dates TBD | |
| August 19, 2024 | Registration Opens Register if you are interested in presenting, judging, or volunteering! |
| September 6, 2024 | Louisiana SciComm Summit Registration Closes Presented by Sea Grant Louisiana |
| September 10, 2024 | StartUPUNO Registration Closes Presented by The Beach at UNO |
| October 7, 2024 | Presenters' Registration Closes After this date, you can no longer register to present at InnovateUNO. |
| October 11, 2024 | Notification of Acceptance The Office of Research will notify you if your application to present has been accepted. |
| October 16, 2024 | Judges' Registration Closes After this date, you can no longer register to be a judge at InnovateUNO. |
| October 28, 2024 | Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Registration Closes Last day to register through the UNO Graduate School. |
| November 4, 2024 | Abstracts Due After this date, you can no longer submit or modify the abstract for your project. |
| November 11, 2024 | Notification of Presentation Time/Location The Office of Research will notify you of your exact presentation time and location on this date. |
| November 13, 2024 | Presentation Materials Due If you are giving an oral presentation, film presentation, or visual arts presentation, you must email the relevant presentation materials to innovate@uno.edu by 4:30 PM. Relevant materials are listed in the individual category guidelines. |
| November 15, 2024 | Visual Arts Set-Up Visual arts presenters must deliver their work to the Fine Arts Gallery. |
| November 18, 2024 12:00 PM–4:15 PM | Poster Set-Up Poster presenters must deliver their poster to LIB 410 on November 18, 2024 between noon and 4:00 PM. |
| November 19-20, 2024 | InnovateUNO Research Symposium Attend presentations on research, creativity, and scholarly projects by UNO students, faculty, and staff! |
| November 21, 2024 1:30 PM | InnovateUNO & 3MT Awards Ceremony! The Office of Research and the Graduate School will host the InnovateUNO & 3MT Awards Ceremony in the UC Ballroom. |
Presenters
All current faculty, staff, and students at UNO may participate. All academic disciplines are encouraged to participate. Local high school students may participate if a UNO staff or faculty member registers on their behalf and uploads their presentation.
Work needs to be completed under the auspices of the University of New Orleans. This includes but is not limited to course/group projects, funded/non-funded projects, and projects completed in conjunction with internships/partnerships that are part of a UNO collaborative.
UNO students will be eligible for prizes, including the Privateer Choice awards, Tolmas Prize awards, and cash prizes in every category. Those who place in their categories may be invited to the ULS Academic Summit.
Throughout the fall semester, the Office of Research will host virtual office hours for assistance with pre-recording presentations virtual symposium.
Group Presentations
Groups must identify one person to be the lead presenter. Only the lead presenter should register; the lead presenter should list any co-presenters and/or non-presenting collaborators.
Judges
If you are (1) a UNO faculty or staff member, or (2) a UNO graduate student, or (3) a subject matter expert in the private sector, we'd like you to help us assess our program participants.
Judges will be asked to evaluate participants' presentations using a standardized rubric. Judges will evaluate a small subset of presentations, and the scores will be averaged to determine the winners.
If you are a faculty mentor, you cannot judge the students you mentored.
The Office of Research and the Earl K. Long Library host this program.
Innovate UNO
UNO's annual research symposium spotlights the investigative work being conducted on our campus and in our research community. If you are engaged in research, scholarly, creative, or innovative projects, you can use this platform to test your ideas, network with your peers, and share your success. Students can even win awards! Undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff can present their work as oral presentations, art displays, performances, or film screenings.