2024 Engaged Scholarship Symposium: Graduate Student Poster Competition

2024 Engaged Scholarship Symposium: Graduate Student Poster Competition

Call for Proposals

Ohio State's Engaged Scholars have significant community impact with their community partners and make an important contribution to the university's culture of engagement, further strengthening the institution's commitment to supporting communities. Hosted by the Office of Outreach and Engagement on Nov. 1, the 2024 Engaged Scholarship Symposium will feature a graduate student poster competition to provide graduate students an opportunity to share their engaged scholarship.

Important Dates
  • Call for Proposals Opens: August 15 (Submissions can be made by emailing proposals as a PDF document to Assistant Vice Provost Nicole Nieto at engage@osu.edu.)
  • Call for Proposals Closes: September 12
  • Notification of Acceptance and Participation: September 19
  • Poster Submission Deadline: October 3
  • Viewing and Competition at the Symposium: November 1
Submission Process

Please provide the following information in a PDF document emailed to engage@osu.edu by September 12 at 11:59 pm.

  • Name:
  • Department/Program: Provide name of your home college, department, or program.
  • Degree: What degree are you pursuing?
  • Email:
  • General Description: Provide a brief description of your project/research in 50 words or less.

Selection Criteria: Please respond to the following four questions. Responses for each question should be 100 words or less.

  • Engagement: How does the project directly engage with or collaborate with community partners?
  • Reciprocity: How is the project beneficial to your academic discipline (scholarship and knowledge) and the community partners?
  • Capacity Building: Does the project Increases the capacity of individuals in the community and community organizations to obtain new knowledge/expertise or advocate for themselves?
  • Community Improvement: Are the project's outcomes/results are intended to improve community processes, community conditions or community outcomes?

What is engaged scholarship?

Engaged scholarship (ES) can be defined as scholarly activities focused on the social, civic, economic, educational, artistic, scientific, environmental, and cultural well-being of people and places beyond the academy. It involves the creation and dissemination of new knowledge to address social issues through collaborative relationships and shared activity between those in the university and those outside the university. Source: Campus Compact

Travel/professional development stipends will be awarded to the top three scoring posters. First place will receive $500, second place will receive $300, and third place will receive $200. If multiple people present a poster, only one stipend will be awarded. All posters will be featured on the Office of Outreach and Engagement's website after the conference.

  • The competition will feature up to 20 poster competition presenters.
  • Posters will be submitted electronically as PDF files and printing will be arranged via UniPrint by the Office of Outreach and Engagement.
  • Presenters must be in attendance for the poster competition on November 1 at the Longaberger Alumni House.

Criteria for Selection: Student work that exemplifies some characteristics of high impact engaged scholarship, including the following criteria:

  • Engagement: The project directly engages with or collaborates with community partners.
  • Reciprocity: The project is beneficial to the student's discipline and the community partners.
  • Capacity Building: The project increases the capacity of individuals in the community and community organizations to advocate for themselves.
  • Community Improvement: The project's outcomes/results are intended to improve community processes, community conditions or community outcomes.

View posters from the 2023 Engaged Scholarship Symposium Graduate Student Poster Competition