Mediated Minds Undergraduate Research Conference

Mediated Minds is a research conference for undergraduate students complete with individual oral presentations, poster presentations, panel discussions, digital posters/multimedia projects, paper and essay readings, and other creative or scholarly work. The conference is for students at all colleges at UC to feature their research and creative work and provides students the opportunity to participate in a professional conference.

All students, even first- and second-year learners, should engage in the free exchange of ideas, and that includes providing you with a public forum for sharing your scholarly discoveries, research, and creative work. This engagement can empower you to make strong statements based upon your research and creative work.

We define "research" as scholarship, experiential and more traditional investigation and analysis. This includes experimental, lab, and field tasks too. We encourage original research, synthesis scholarship, and critique, however, we do not limit submissions to only these areas of study. Additionally, presentations may range from poster presentations to individual oral presentations, even to traditional paper readings. Ask us, or your professors, for more information about how your class assignment or individual research projects could be presented here!

We define “creative” work as original work developed as part of a student’s critical engagement with a specific topic, genre, form, medium, or skill. We encourage students to submit written work like poetry and short stories, as well as visual art and design projects such as photography, video and paintings, although students are certainly not limited to these forms. Creative work might be presented as a traditional or digital poster presentation, with the artist available to discuss and answer questions about the work. It might also be presented orally, as a short-story/poetry reading or as an oral presentation discussing the development and purpose of the project.

Everyone. Our goal is to showcase undergraduate student research, scholarly, and creative activity, and we hope that many professors, students, administrators, and staff members will attend. Additionally, we encourage members of the greater Cincinnati community to join us for the day's events. Come see what your area colleges and universities are discovering and learning in their classes. And participate in conversations about issues new to our society, as well as enduring questions.

Mediated Minds includes proceedings to the annual conference. Conference proceedings are collections of academic proposals and papers that serve as written record of the work that will be presented at the conference. When you submit your proposal, you will also be asked if you would like to have your work published in the Proceedings for Mediated Minds. This journal, hosted by the University of Cincinnati Press, will serve as a written record of your participation in the conference and can be used to demonstrate your research efforts in the future (which can be linked to an online portfolio or website and included in a résumé). If you choose to participate in the Proceedings publication, your introduction and research findings will be published with the list of references or works cited used in your research. If you are presenting a poster and would like to be included in the Proceedings for Mediated Minds, you will be asked immediately after the conference to submit an image of your poster as a .pdf file for publication in the journal.

To view conference proceedings from previous years, please see the Archive. You will need to use your University of Cincinnati login and password to access the journal.

Do you have a high-quality research project, academic paper, and/or creative work that deserves some additional exposure? Would you like to share your quality work in a positive way? Please consider sharing your work with students, faculty, and alumni from the University of Cincinnati! Research conference presentations make for a great line on your resume (for a future or current job hunt) and on applications for graduate and professional programs. The proposal deadline is Wednesday, April 2, 2025.

• Call For Proposals
• How to Prepare

Email: mediatedminds@uc.edu