The symposium

ASU undergraduate students, community college students, high school students and their mentors are invited to present their research and creative projects at this year's New College Undergraduate Research and Creative Projects Symposium.

Research projects will be in conference poster format. This event will feature a poster session including but not limited to NCUIRE, individualized instruction, capstone experiences, etc. If your project involves creative expression of performance that is not suitable for poster format, please submit using the link below under 'Submit non-poster entry here'.

This year, instead of a keynote address by a single faculty member, we will have a lightning round of spark talks by several faculty members. Each person will deliver a 2-minute overview of an exciting scholarly opportunity. Attendees are invited to connect with the speaker during the mixer for more information.

Faculty judges will provide feedback and encouragement to all participants and vote on a select number of recognitions of excellence in several categories including innovation, social impact, and interdisciplinarity. There will also be a "People's Choice" recognition voted on by the participants. All participants will receive a certificate of performance.

Admission to the event is free and open to the public.

Two-minute Curious

"Two-minute Curious" is an effort aimed at sparking curiosity in the audience rather than presenting a technical or research exposition. It is aimed more at responding to questions about histories, experiences, or phenomena that a curious mind may ask "Why? (or Why Not?); How?; or What the Heck?". 

They are deliberately short - only 2-minutes maximum. We want to inspire the listeners to learn more and to ask questions about the topic raised rather than present an end result. To this end, we are inviting up to 12 speakers who may want to challenge themselves on how they are framing their scholarship, scholars who are actively wrestling with open questions, and potential speakers with a unique view of the world and willing to publicly ask "what if...?"

 Poster submission deadline

11:59 p.m. on Monday, April 13, 2026