In conjunction with campus and community partners, the Arthur Olsen Student Research Symposium at Augustana University offers research awards to students who present at the symposium. Five $50 awards will be given to students presenting a poster.
All poster presenters are eligible to win an award, and posters will be judged as they are presented on the day of the symposium. Students doing an oral presentation are able to apply for one of the following $250 research awards:
This award is sponsored by the Augustana Department of Languages, Literatures & Cultures in honor of Dr. Ignacio López-Calvo, director of the Center for the Humanities, presidential chair in the humanities and professor of Latin American Literature at the University of California, Merced. The Keynote Speaker's Early Influence Award will be awarded to a student whose research aligns with López-Calvo's work, which speaks to the power of the humanistic disciplines (e.g. languages, philosophy, writing, arts, etc.) in shaping a better future for all of us as well as the intriguing ways that writings from seemingly disparate lands have impacted each other and the cultures in which they live.
The Interdisciplinary Research & Collaboration Award will go to a student who has done research involving more than one academic discipline and/or requiring collaboration between multiple parties. Students must be able to demonstrate how they synthesized ideas and concepts from multiple disciplines, drawing connections between multiple subjects, and/or demonstrate how they collaborated with additional individuals or groups to create a cohesive research project.
The Lifelong Learner Awards will recognize students who exhibit the spirit of Dr. Arthur Olsen's yearning to be a lifelong learner through their research or scholarship. Olsen chaired the committee that created Augustana's five core values: Christian Faith, Liberal Arts, Community, Excellence and Service. In keeping with Augustana's grounding in the liberal arts tradition, these awards will recognize projects that do one of the following: enhance community through the understanding of humans and human interactions, enrich lives through aesthetic and creative expressions, or develop knowledge that is critical for understanding and caring for our changing world. Three Lifelong Learner Awards will be presented.
