UNC-Greensboro Honors Symposium - Call for Papers

Call for Submissions: Outstanding Student Papers

21st ANNUAL UNDERGRADUATE HONORS SYMPOSIUM

Friday, March 12, 2021

Virtual Conference

The Honors Symposium offers outstanding undergraduates the opportunity to participate in a virtual academic conference with concurrent sessions. We welcome submissions from all UNC Greensboro undergraduate students or any Honors student from a North Carolina Honors Program or Honors College. Papers should be research-based and can be written in any discipline, but presentations should be geared toward a general audience. Students may submit a paper that has been completed for a course or write a paper for the Symposium. Students may submit more than one paper for consideration to the Symposium. A group of students may also submit a presentation. December 2020 UNCG graduates are also allowed to submit papers for consideration to the Symposium.

Students can submit a paper by:

Submit your paper for consideration via Google Forms at: https://tinyurl.com/LIHCSymposium by December 21, 2020 at 11:55 p.m. Students should plan to record a 10 to 15-minute summary presentation and live Q&A to follow.

Faculty can get involved by:

• Suggesting a panel of student papers from one of your current courses.
• Encouraging students with excellent work to submit a paper.
• Offering to serve as session Chairs at the Symposium.
• Virtually attending the Symposium, bringing your class virtually to the Symposium, and encouraging students to attend virtually as individuals as well.
• Create assignments for students in your spring courses that include attending the Symposium.

The Honors Symposium Prizes, sponsored by UNC Greensboro’s Lloyd International Honors College, are awarded for outstanding papers submitted to the Symposium. This year prizes dedicated to the encouragement of high-quality academic writing will include monetary awards of $250, $150, and $100 in one category for Visiting Honors students and in two categories for UNCG students: Arts & Humanities, and Sciences & Professional Schools. Award decisions are based on the papers submitted, not the presentation of the papers. Papers must be presented at the Symposium to be eligible for a prize.

There is no registration cost to present or attend. We encourage friends and family to attend as audience members. For more information about the Symposium, students and faculty may contact Dr. Angela Bolte, Assistant Dean in Lloyd International Honors College, at akbolte@uncg.edu.