Logistical Questions

The CSURF 2023 will be held IN-PERSON at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs 1420 Austin Bluffs Pkwy.

You will need to arrive at your presentation location/room at least 10 minutes before the first presentation in your assigned timeslot. 

• Presentation schedule can be found HERE 
• Poster Session #1 Assignments can be found HERE
• Poster Session #2 Assignments can be found HERE
• Book of Abstracts can be found HERE

Please see a campus map here https://map.uccs.edu/. 

For student participants, the dress code for the forum is business casual. For USAFA cadets, it is service dress, unless otherwise indicated by the USAFA administration.

Dr. Jessi L. Smith, PhD

Vice Provost & Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, Research Integrity Officer, and Professor of Psychology

Title: Lab Rats and Lab Mates: The Motivational Push and Pull of Undergraduate Research Experience

Abstract: Faculty research labs are essential to inspiring their students’ passion for discovery and innovation. That lab setting is a vibrant and immersive “microculture” where students exchange ideas, norms, and values with their fellow lab mates and faculty mentors. In this presentation, we will learn how the undergraduate research experience is a key social context in which students come to understand what it means to be a researcher. We will review findings from a series of national longitudinal and experimental studies with over 1,000 undergraduates to illustrate how the research experience pushes and pulls students’ identity-development, motivation, and career aspirations. We end by reviewing evidence-based strategies for creating and sustaining an inclusive and diverse research microculture to shape the next generation of scholars and advance the frontiers of knowledge.

Time: 11:30am

Location: Dwire Theater

Although the final schedule will be published AFTER the student presenter registration closes on April 8th, presentations are held approximately from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm.

The Schedule of Events can be found HERE.

Poster Session Assignments can be found HERE

All presenters should check in at the CHECK-IN desk in Gallogly Event Center at UCCS. There, you will get updated information on your presentation session and location.

Plan to arrive early and stay late so you may participate as an audience member for other students.