Submission Deadline: March 07, 2025
Please join us for the UIW Excellence Summit 2025: We are but one WORD: Excellence! to take place April 21 - 25, 2025. UIW invites all to showcase their academic excellence and submit their abstracts or artist’s statements describing their works, projects, masterful art, and literature. Faculty, staff, and students (undergraduate, graduate, and professional) are all encouraged to participate. Projects presented elsewhere over the last academic year are welcome. We encourage the submission of projects that incorporate participatory and collaborative approaches, engage with diverse communities, and are open to novel formats to enable participation across the numerous academic platforms of excellence at UIW. Accepted submissions will be presented both in-person and online in a virtual symposium format.
Poster Presentations
The poster presentation is open to any discipline and will include a formal in-person poster session. There will be active judging of student poster presentations and prizes for the winning students.
Podium Presentations
Podium presentations are open to those who feel their discipline or area of study is better suited to podium presentations. Presentations should not exceed 15 minutes and if accepted, participants will have a choice to present online or in person with live streaming.
Performing Arts Submissions
Performing arts submissions are open to any musical, spoken, or theatrical performance. Submissions must be original works by the artist or a presentation/discussion of existing pieces. Please see the submission form for additional performance information.
Visual Arts Submissions
Visual arts submissions must be original works by the artist. Please see the submission form for additional display information.
Faculty Guidance We are seeking your participation to encourage mentorship and showcase scholarly excellence to our students. We welcome ideas on how you and your budding scholars can present together. No students but want some to begin working with you in your academic area of excellence? No problem we can help you communicate your interests to our greater UIW population in a special showcase for interested faculty. Please contact our office at orgs@uiwtx.edu if you would like to build a specific topic session.
Additional Information All accepted abstracts and artist’s statements will be published in the Proceedings and archived in The Atheneum.
Introduction
The Faculty Endowment Research Award was established to provide limited support for new and ongoing faculty research projects. The award is considered “seed money” for research and scholarly activity, in that the project should lead to further funding from external sources if continued support is needed and normally available in this area of research. Awards are for projects in a one-year period, from June 1 to May 31.
Award
Up to $8,000
Preference will be given to proposals that :
- Have a high potential for external funding, publications, exhibits, or performances within the respective disciplines.
- Build or strengthen interdisciplinary research partnerships.
Eligibility Criteria
Full-time faculty from all schools are eligible to apply for the award.
Awards are for collaborative or individual scholarly projects at any stage of the project.
Deadline
March 25, 2025
Contact Us
The ORGS would like to thank you for participating and we welcome you to contact us anytime with questions, comments, or concerns.
Phone: (210) 805-3555 Email: research@uiwtx.edu
You will find further instructions and file templates on our Internal Funding website.
Introduction
To honor Dr. Geneva R. Johnston’s legacy and in the spirit of the purpose of the Geneva R. Johnson Library, UIW established an endowed fund to advance physical therapy research. The endowment is named the Geneva R. Johnson Award for Research in Physical Therapy Education and is awarded to a faculty or post-professional graduate student with the project outcome to advance physical therapy education through their scholarly work.
The award will provide support to emerging investigators conducting evidence-based research related to the scholarship of teaching, learning, and assessment in physical therapy education. The intended output is new knowledge that can be accessed, read, applied and expanded upon through dissemination of findings.
Funding: Funds will be available annually in the amount of approximately $5,000 - $10,000 depending on the return of the endowment and how often the award will be made. Accounting will provide a specific amount of available funds each year.
Process: Awards will be made annually. Faculty who are interested in applying for the funding should apply by March 31 if they want to be competitive with other proposals. If no applications are received by March 31, then any applications that come in after will be evaluated on a first-come, first-serve basis. The awards committee will consist of three faculty members (can include emeriti or retired faculty members) with at least one member outside of the DPT program. Ideally the committee will comprise of a DPT faculty member, an School of Rehabilitation Sciences (SRS) faculty member who is not DPT, and a faculty member of the health professions outside of the SRS. The DPT program director will assemble the committee with approval of the Dean.
Eligibility Criteria:
Faculty who have or are developing evidence-based research related to the scholarship of teaching, learning, and assessment in physical therapy education.
Deadline
March 31, 2025
Contact Us
The ORGS would like to thank you for participating and we welcome you to contact us anytime with questions, comments, or concerns.
Phone: (210) 805-3555 Email: research@uiwtx.edu
You will find further instructions and file templates on our Internal Funding website.
Introduction
The 1881 Commemorative Award for Faculty Development Fund was established with the generous support of Lt. Col. Philip J. Piccione and Col. Jean M. Migliorino Piccione to celebrate the 1881 founding year of the University and to encourage faculty development. The goal is to foster faculty professional development and to recognize the leadership of an individual faculty member in relation to the university’s Mission. Projects may be proposed that will allow an individual faculty member the opportunity to develop new skills, research areas, or initiatives. Awards are for projects in a one-year period, from June 1 to May 31.
Award Amount
Up to $3,000
Eligibility Criteria
Full-time faculty with US Citizenship from any school are eligible to apply for the award.
Awards are for individual scholarly projects at any stage of the project.
Deadline
March 25, 2025
Contact Us
The ORGS would like to thank you for participating and we welcome you to contact us anytime with questions, comments, or concerns.
Phone: (210) 805-3555 Email: research@uiwtx.edu
You will find further instructions and file templates on our Internal Funding website.
Introduction
The Faculty Graduate Research Assistant Award provides faculty with research assistance for their scholarly endeavors leading to publication/extramural funding and provides institutional financial support to graduate students within the context of a mentored project experience.
Award
- The program supports GRA/GTA positions at current tuition rates.
- The award is made for two semesters, and a faculty member may re-apply for subsequent awards.
- Assistantship time is restricted to research or teaching activities and the expected workload is 150 hours per semester.
- Faculty shall, when appropriate, share authorship with the student, and at all times, shall acknowledge the student's work in publications that report research to which the student has contributed.
Eligibility Criteria
Full-time faculty from all schools are eligible to apply for the award.
Awards are for collaborative or individual scholarly projects at any stage of the project.
Previous year’s awardees are eligible to reapply in consecutive years only if they have submitted the awarded project’s final report to the ORGS Office of Research.
Deadline
March 25th, 2025
Contact Us
The ORGS would like to thank you for participating and we welcome you to contact us anytime with questions, comments, or concerns.
Phone: (210) 805-3555 Email: research@uiwtx.edu
You will find further instructions and file templates on our Internal Funding website.
The 2025 Service Learning Showcase will be held during the UIW Excellence Summit, April 21 to 25, 2025. The dates coincide with the National Undergraduate Research Week.
UIW community members, that is faculty, students, and staff are invited to share podium presentations, or poster submissions that demonstrate service learning and engaged scholarship. We seek best practices, examples, theories, scholarship, and grant writing skills related to all aspects of service learning. UIW has valued Engaged Scholarship. Ernest Boyer coined the term “Engaged Scholarship” to describe teaching and research that connect “the rich resources of the university to our most pressing social, civic, and ethical problems.”
Service Learning at UIW includes community service which a) is required in the class or the program, b) is completed to better understand course or program content, c) reflects concern for the well-being of the community, and d) helps students to reflect, find meaning in their lives, and keep engaged to be good citizens in the future.
To see examples of Showcase presentations 2017 to 2024, open the booklets that are posted on the UIW LibGuide https://libguides.uiwtx.edu/servicelearning
To learn more, visit the Service and Service Learning Guidelines site: https://www.uiw.edu/eccl/faculty-engagement/service-and-service-learning-guidelines.html
In the proposal for a podium presentation or a poster presentation, please write a description. This will appear in the postings and publications about the Service Learning and Engaged Scholarship Showcase.
Please include: a) Purpose and aims, b) Rationale and significance, c) The approach, the methodology, d) The findings and reflection on these.
All of those combined should be no less than 300 and no more than 600 words. Keep in mind how this connects with the UIW Mission.
3. Submissions must be made via Submittable.
4. All relevant sections must be completed. Incomplete submissions will not be accepted.
5. Provide the complete title of your work as you wish it to appear in the Proceedings.
6. List authors in the order in which you wish them to appear in the Proceedings.
7. Please check all text for errors before submitting.
8. Submissions are reviewed and selected by the showcase organizing committee. Those who submit proposals will get a response as soon as possible so that they have at least a month to prepare.
9. Deadline for submissions: February 14, 2025, (11:59 pm).
If you have questions, feel free to contact Service-Learning Showcase Coordinator, Sister Martha Ann Kirk kirk@uiwtx.edu or 210-883-5934 or the Service-Learning Committee Leaders, Dr. Erlinda Lopez-Rodriguez elopezro@uiwtx.edu or Dr. Darlene Carbajal dcarbaja@uiwtx.edu