Research Opportunities - Graduate Students - Fort Hays State University (FHSU)

Events and Opportunities for Graduate Students

As a graduate student, you are encouraged to connect with your academic department to identify research opportunities and recommendations for presenting your research within your discipline. Graduate students also have opportunities to pursue research interests and showcase their work at a university and statewide level at the following events:

Kansas Capitol Graduate Research Summit

In early spring of each year, the Kansas Council of Graduate Deans (KCGD) of the Kansas Board of Regents (KBOR) sponsors the Capitol Graduate Research Summit.

This event showcases the work of Kansas graduate students representing each of the state’s public institutions. The purpose of this event is to demonstrate the unique opportunities graduate students have to participate with faculty members in research at all state institutions. This event also emphasizes higher education’s role in developing educated citizens and preparing a workforce with the necessary skills to further the economic growth of the state. You can learn more about the event at this website: http://www.wichita.edu/cgrs/

Graduate students who have been significantly involved in the research enterprise of the university, either with their own project or through meaningful involvement with a faculty project, are desired as participants. To qualify for this event, participants must:

be a graduate student during the event academic year,
have completed research under the guidance of a Kansas public institution faculty mentor,
follow the methodology of the appropriate academic discipline,
have research of sufficient quality to be presented at a professional academic meeting,
have the skills, resources, and capacity to produce a professional academic poster,
agree to undergo presentation training and rehearse presentations prior to the Capitol event.

Participants should be able to convey their experience and enthusiasm to state representatives, senators, and other state officials in a poster session. Projects from a broad range of disciplines are encouraged, especially posters that relate to the state of Kansas and to issues important to the state legislature (e.g. education, health, agriculture, aviation, biotechnology, energy, transportation, manufacturing, environment, and social services). Up to five participants will be selected from each institution.

A call for submissions is sent out via FHSU email in November each year.

John Heinrichs Scholarly and Creative Activities Day (SACAD)