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SUBMISSION DEADLINE!  – Abstracts are due Monday, February 20, 2024. Abstract submissions are now CLOSED

To submit an abstract for RISE, you must first create an account on the RISE Abstract system using your official Northeastern University email. The link to the abstract portal follows these instructions.

Review this brief video for information on not only what you can share, but also about how you should do it. Please be sure NOT to include faculty mentors and post-docs as co-presenters.

Abstracts should focus on projects undertaken during the past year — from April 2023 until the present day. While projects do not need to be complete, substantial progress should have been made. This is not an arena for new proposals but a venue for presenting work that is complete or significantly underway.

Abstracts should represent projects aiming to explore, understand, or create new knowledges or practices rather than simply summarizing the existing state of the field or otherwise ‘researching about research.’

If you prefer to read the instructions, please take a look at this brief document.

Important to Note

• Do NOT include Faculty Mentors or Post-Docs as co-presenters.
• For group projects, please only submit one abstract.
• A presenter may only be the “main presenter” of a single project if they intend to participate in RISE in-person. Primary presenters will need to share their posters during the live event.
• Maximum length – 100 words. A single paragraph with no citations, tables, footnotes.
• Due Monday, February 12, 2024

Review and Approval

• Once submitted, your abstract will be reviewed for human/animal subjects, intellectual property, and editorial content.
• You’ll be able to see approval decisions through the platform.

Now that you’ve considered the instructions, go forward!

Remember, create a new account within the abstract system using your Northeastern University email!

RISE 2024 Abstract Submission Portal

Now that your abstract has been approved, you need to review the abstract, create a poster reflecting that approved abstract, and upload it. Posters must reflect the information on the approved abstract, including capitalization and punctuation!

Below there are instructions about reviewing your abstract and incorporating this information into your poster. You can view slides here as well.

• Login to Oxford Abstracts RISE portal using the login with which you created the abstract.
• Abstract will have been moved into poster phase of submission and the submission status will be “Incomplete.”
• Under “Reviews,” click on “View (1).”
• On next Reviewer Feedback screen, use the drop-down to navigate to the review for “Abstract Submission.” Note any feedback on the left-hand side.
• On the right-hand side, note correct information regarding title, subject category, mentor information, presenter level in the approved abstract.
• After reviewing feedback and approved abstract, click “Edit Submission” button to amend the abstract with the poster uploads. You’re not creating “new submission,” you are editing the abstract to include your poster.
• Make sure poster reflects what is in the approved abstract. Use abstract here as guide.
  • In the top, red portion of the poster. Do not otherwise alter this top section of the poster.
    • Submission ID: Copy submission ID from the abstract.
    • Primary Mentor: Only list name of primary mentor, no honorifics (Dr., Ph.D., J.D.) Copy from abstract.
    • Category: Copy subject category from abstract.
    • Level: Level must be either undergraduate or graduate. Delete the alternative.
  • In the main body of poster.
    • Title: The title must be capitalized and punctuated according to our guidelines. We have made corrections of these in your abstracts. Copy that! MLA capitalization and no periods at the end.
    • Authors: Under this title, be sure to add all authors listed on abstract. You can add additional mentors here or in an acknowledgements section.
    • Acknowledgements: PEAK Awardees be sure to acknowledge URF according to the language on our website (see PEAK FAQs).
  • Upload PPTX and PDF files. Title them using file name convention SUBMISSIONID_LASTNAME_FIRSTNAME.pptx and SUBMISSIONID_LASTNAME_FIRSTNAME.pdf, example, 114_Flintstone_Fred.pptx and 114_Flintstone_Fred.pdf.

Please be sure to:

• Have any mentors or collaborators review your poster before you submit.
• Proofread your poster and make sure that the Submission ID, Primary Mentor Name, Subject Category, Level and Title reflect your approved abstract. Review your approved abstract.
• Include any collaborators as well as mentors in the authorship line within the main body of the poster. Do NOT add these people to the top portion of the poster.
• Once we review the posters, we will send them for printing and be in touch with next steps for those whose posters are approved.
• Those whose posters have been approved will receive a formal acceptance letter. Participation in RISE is competitive and not guaranteed.

Once your abstract has been approved, you’ll create a poster using our official template that will serve as an introduction to your project. Posters are due March 13 (priority deadline).This allows us to review and print all of the posters in time for our event. The submission deadline for online poster display only is March 18.

You’ll make your poster using the RISE Poster Presentation Template. Login using your MyNortheastern credentials. Download and save the file to your computer. You can access PowerPoint to edit the template through Northeastern’s Office365 subscription.

When uploading your poster, you will be asked to include both a  .PPTX and a .PDF version. Please upload a 1-slide pptx file for the RISE team to reference, as well as 1-page pdf file of your poster to include in the poster gallery.

The poster template will ask you to focus on four areas:

• BACKGROUND, MOTIVATION, AND GOALS: Explain the core question, problem, or challenge guiding your research or creative endeavor project. Why you have chosen to work on this question, problem, or challenge? Situate your work within the context of your broader field. How have previous researchers, artists, entrepreneurs, etc. approached your question or problem? How does your work build upon theirs? Why does your work matter to people in your field—and to people outside it?
• PROCESS AND METHODS: Summarize what you did to address your guiding question, problem, or challenge and to execute your project. What approach did you adopt, and why?
• FINDINGS AND PRODUCTS: Highlight the main findings or creative products that emerged from your project.
• CONCLUSIONS AND NEXT STEPS: Identify the main conclusions of your project and discuss potential next steps for your research or creative work. What are the implications of your project for those in your field, and those outside it?

You can feel free to edit the main body of the poster template as you see fit — but do NOT edit the header formatting or change the dimensions. 

Again, be sure to add the title and primary mentor information directly from your approved abstract, as well as the subject category and your undergraduate or graduate level (delete the other category) in the top red portion of template.

• You should include your primary mentor as well as any additional mentors in the authorship section in the main poster body or in acknowledgments. Do NOT add them at the top of the poster.
• Be sure to include all collaborators in this portion as well. If you need to add student collaborators to your abstract, please share that information with us over email RISE@Northeastern.edu.

As you make your poster, here are a few important tips:

Just Right for RISE, Remember Your Audience: Again, RISE is an event for an educated, but non-specialist audience. Your poster should be technical enough to excite an expert, but not so technical that someone not in your field will be turned off. The idea is to start a conversation where you can go into more detail, depending on your interlocutor. Focus on the most important question you want a viewer to understand.

Use Images and Figures, Avoid the Wall of Text (no more than 1000 words in your poster): There will be many posters at RISE and you’ll want your poster to stand out. Use large images and figures to attract visual attention. Every detail of your project should not be in the poster — the idea is that you will use the poster as a prop for more engaged conversation. So use some big images and headers to signpost for your viewer the main points of your project and where it is headed.

A good practice is to start with an image or figure that you think responds to the prompts in each of the four areas above — BACKGROUND, MOTIVATION, AND GOALS; PROCESS AND METHODS; FINDINGS and PRODUCTS; and CONCLUSIONS and NEXT STEPS — and then build the poster around those visuals.

Again, Bigger Is Better: People will be walking by at a distance. Use large fonts, images, and figures at appropriate resolutions to make your poster easy to read.  Use bullets, numbering, and headlines where appropriate.

Here is a short video we made about posters for RISE.

Other Advice for Creating a Poster

• Designing Effective Research Posters
• Scientific Research Poster Tutorial Videos

Those who have posters accepted have the opportunity to share them live and in-person at RISE in Matthews Arena.   All  accepted posters will also be showcased in our online gallery.

• Our office has all of the posters printed and you will pick them up prior to poster hanging — we’ll share this information directly with presenters.
• If your poster is accepted, you must be prepared to hang your poster the evening prior (or have one of your collaborators do so).
• Those whose posters are accepted for in-person presentation, meanwhile, must be prepared to attend the entirety of RISE. Presenters are expected to be present from 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM ET on the day of RISE in Matthews Arena.
• Participants will arrive at 1:00 PM ET to check-in and for a group photograph. The official start time for RISE will be 1:30 PM ET.