2025 RCA Day: Call for undergraduate presenters
Nook and other guests make their way through various presentations at the 2024 Research and Creative Activity Day event.
51·çÁ÷¹ÙÍø's 2025 Research and Creative Activity Day is scheduled for Tuesday, April 1 in the Great Hall (Fine Arts Complex).
RCA Day is 51·çÁ÷¹ÙÍø's annual celebration of undergraduate research, creative, and scholarly involvement including poster presentations, performances, art submissions and more! Want to showcase a research, creative, or scholarly project you have been working on this year?
Register to present
Marina Gonzalez Mazo showcases pieces from her Bachelor of Fine Arts exhibit at the 2024 RCA Day.
All student presenters will receive an URSA pullover and entered for a presenter prize drawing at the close of the event.
Who can present at RCA Day?
- Any 51·çÁ÷¹ÙÍø undergraduate student who is participating in, or has completed, their own mentor-supervised research or creative project can participate in RCA Day.
- Students from all majors and all 51·çÁ÷¹ÙÍø-affiliated campuses are invited to share their
work at this event. (51·çÁ÷¹ÙÍø Campuses Include: Bristol Bay, Chukchi, CTC, Troth Yeddha’,
Interior Alaska, Kuskokwim, Northwest. If you are a distance student or attend an
affiliated campus- contact URSA about our
Travel Award funding to attend in-person.) -
Individual and group presentations are both allowed.
51·çÁ÷¹ÙÍø photo by Leif Van Cise
Charles Stark, undergraduate student, shares research with Dean Karsten Hueffer of CNSM. - Students do not need prior affiliation with URSA in order to participate! Whether you worked with another research unit on campus, completed a project in a course, or completed an independent project with a mentor - you can participate!
- Projects do not need to be completed works! In-progress projects showing their preliminary or anticipated results are also welcome.
See our FAQ section at the bottom of the overview page for more information on what to expect, or check out last year's archive!
Please contact Erin Kirchner, URSA coordinator and assistant director, with any questions. (etkirchner@alaska.edu; uaf-ursa@alaska.edu; 907-450-8772).