2025 RU Research & Inquiry Symposium

Welcome! Join us, April 7-11, 2025, for a week-long celebration of research & inquiry at Roosevelt’s Chicago & Schaumburg campuses!

The 2025 RSRIS committee welcomes faculty and departments to create sessions showcasing student work or encouraging student research & inquiry engagement.

Faculty/staff may choose if sessions are presented live, in-person, live-streamed via zoom, or both! Open the tabs below to learn more about session types, to submit a session proposal, or to find other ways to encourage student participation.

Deadlines:

  • Please submit interest forms by February 10th for scheduling;
  • Please submit final session details for due March 21, for programs & promotion.

How can faculty or departments arrange for members or guests of the campus community to present their work? Presentations may take different formats: these may be live (in-person) or live streamed (via zoom). 

Live (organizer sets the time & presentation format)

  • Oral/Research & Performance Presentations (oral presentations, round table, posters, performance(s), installations)
  • Faculty-led panels, workshops or discussions: research or creative inquiry discussion
  • Invited speakers or performances
  • Research, professional & graduate school resource fairs

We invite and encourage a number of ways to encourage students to explore how research & inquiry plays a role in their work, within and well-beyond the classroom.

You can gather ideas from past symposiums, following the links below: 

Write to osr@roosevelt.edu if you would like to propose or explore new ideas.

Would you like to host an RSRIS session? 

This form is for faculty or staff to submit Course, department or other group sessions. These may include groups of student presentations, student recognition ceremonies or other research & scholarship related sessions. Contact osr@roosevelt.edu with questions.

Use the form below to submit general session information; use the following drop-down menu to provide individual presenter information . 

Click and download the sheet below to submit presentation titles and names for your course, department or office-organized session. Please make sure you've filled out the session registration form as well! All submissions due by March 20, 2023.

Presenter Information Spreadsheet

 

Preparing your students for presentations: 

RSRIS is a multi-department collaboration and is open to RU students in all disciplines and recent alumni.

Presentations might showcase inquiry, scholarly activity or practice through research projects, compositions, performances, installations, curriculum or a lesson plans. They might reflect on completed or in-progress work conducted or proposed for independent projects, assistantships, coursework, internships and summer projects.

Visit the OSR digital resource hub's guide to conferences and research presentations.

  • You can also: browse through past symposiums to learn more about what–and how– students present their work.
    • Browse through the accompanying drop-down menus below, you will find instructions, links to templates and submission forms for presentations or sessions. Send an email osr@roosevelt.edu with questions.

 

2023 is the fourth year that we have celebrated RU students research, inquiry & creative work online. You can brose through the program and presentations from the 2020-2022 symposiums,  following the links below.

 

If you just want to attend, welcome, you can just show up! Help us plan by filling out an 'attending only' form. Please note that RSRIS organizers will not be able to take attendance. We encourage you to ask students to take a photo of themselves at an activity and write a brief reflection if showing evidence of attendance is required for credit course credit. 

Why plan to attend?

  • Attend students’ oral, poster and performance presentations!
  • Get inspired by our faulty & student speakers!
  • Build familiarity with research at faculty and staff-led sessions and research development workshops!
  • Connect with graduate programs and employers at networking events and fairs!

Looking for presenter or session organizer resources?

RSRIS is organized by the Office of Student Research; McNair Program, HSI/STEM center, Honors Program, Library & Instruction, English, Mathematics, Economics and Actuarial Science; Psychology; Humanities, Chicago College of Performing Arts; and Biological, Physical and Health Sciences.