Oklahoma Research Day

Announcing Northwestern will play host to the 2027 and 2028 Oklahoma Research Day events. Stay tuned as information is updated.

Oklahoma Research Day 2027 is scheduled for March 5, 2027, at the Salt Fork Event Center in Alva.

Now in its 19th year, Oklahoma Research Day is a premier annual event celebrating student and faculty research, creative, and scholarly activities. The event has grown in numbers and in stature with contributions from all of Oklahoma’s institutions of higher education, including many collaborative contributions from national and international academic and research institutions.

The 2017 Oklahoma Research Day event in Enid had more than 1,000 registered students, faculty, and guests and featured more than 550 unique poster presentations.

Northwestern Oklahoma State University is proud to once again host Oklahoma Research Day in Enid. Details concerning directions to the Central National Bank Center, the city of Enid, local restaurants, and parking will become available to participants via a mobile app in February 2018.

Check this webpage and the official Oklahoma Research Day webpage for updates about the event.

Research Day Information

Date & Location

Oklahoma Research Day 2027 will be held March 5, 2027, at the Salt Fork Event Center in Alva.

Poster Guidelines

Posters cannot exceed 2,025 square inches (i.e., 45″ tall x 45″ wide). Please correspond with the person who will be printing your poster before you begin creating it. Typically, poster printers use 42″ paper and allow, excluding margins, for 41.6″ of printable space. Although a 45″ square poster is allowed, the poster printers at your university may not be able to print that size of poster.

In the past, participants have had success using Microsoft PowerPoint to create their poster by following the steps below:

1. Open Microsoft PowerPoint and select “Design” from the top navigation bar;
2. Then select “Page Setup”;
3. In the Page Setup box, enter the Width in inches (no more than 45″);
4. In the Page Setup box, enter the Height in inches (no more than 45″);
5. Save your slide to preserve your dimensions.

Although you are not required to upload a poster, we encourage you to upload it for archiving purposes. If you upload a poster, anyone who is searching through the submitted abstracts after the event will be able to view your poster via the Oklahoma Research Day website. You can upload your poster anytime before abstract submission closes or after the event. The electronic version of your poster cannot exceed 2 MB in size and must be either in .pdf or .jpg format.

Abstract Guidelines

Title:

Your title must be less than 200 characters. When formatting your title, capitalize all words with the exception of words with three letters or less. For Example: “The Diffusion of Information Communication Technologies at the Local Level of Government.”

Abstract Limit:

Your abstract should be no more than 1,500 characters. Use a word processing program to type your abstract and rely on the word count function to verify the number of characters with spaces. In addition, allow the word processing program to check for misspellings.

Abstract Content:

Your abstract should include:
1. Objective of the research;
2. Thesis or hypothesis;
3. Methodology or approaches to address the thesis or hypothesis; and
4. Summary fo the findings or relevant results associated with the project.

Examples of successful abstracts can be found in Oklahoma Research Day’s Abstract Archives.

Schedule

Once the registration period has ended, all projects’ abstract numbers will be listed in the Official Guidebook. Abstract numbers are a series of digits interspersed with decimal points; those abstract numbers ending in an even digit (2, 4, 6, 8, 0) will present their posters during session one, and those abstract numbers ending in an odd digit (1, 3, 5, 7, or 9) will present their posters during session two. Following is a tentative schedule for Oklahoma Research Day:

8:00-9:30 a.m.: Registration
8:00-9:00 a.m.: Continental Breakfast
8:45-9:00 a.m.: Poster Setup – Session One (EVEN NUMBERS)
9:00-10:30 a.m.: Poster Presentations – Sessions One (EVEN NUMBERS)
10:30-10:45 a.m.: Poster Setup – Session Two (ODD NUMBERS)
10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.: Poster Presentations – Session Two (ODD NUMBERS)
12:15 p.m.: Poster Breakdown
12:30-3:00 p.m.: Banquet, Luncheon, and Keynote Speech

Official Guidebook

The official guidebook will be released after the registration period closes. Check back for updates.

Keynote Speech

The keynote speaker for Oklahoma Research Day 2027 will be Dr. Verna Kale, Associate Research Professor of English at Penn State University.

Dr. Kale is the associate editor of The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, a planned 17-volume edition of the author’s complete letters by Cambridge University Press. The first six volumes have been published. She is also the author of several other articles and books on Hemingway.

Learn more about Dr. Verna Kale.