Fourth Annual Cross-College Faculty Research Symposium – Fall Showcase
Baruch Faculty: Apply to present your research and join your Colleagues at the Fall Research Showcase!
The Office of the Provost invites full-time faculty in all fields and departments across Baruch to apply for one in-person research presentation slot at the Fall Faculty Research Showcase. To maximize participation and attendance, the Cross-College Faculty Research Symposium has been redesigned into two half-day PechaKucha showcases, one in the Fall and one in the Spring. For a description of the PechaKucha format and answers to frequently asked questions, see below.
The Fall Faculty Research showcase will be an in-person half-day PechaKucha Event on Monday, November 4, 2024, in the afternoon (from 1.30-5pm).
All presenters at the Fall Showcase will be considered for a $1,000 research award. There will be live audience choice voting, and two research awards of $1,000 each will be presented to the faculty PechaKuchas with the most votes. Awards may be used for research-related expenses and should be spent by June 30, 2025. Due to the nature of the funding source, these awards cannot be used as summer salary or course buyouts. However, award money can be used for travel, supplies, student research assistants, or convening faculty. Awardees will be announced at the end of the PechaKucha presentations.
Please submit your PechaKucha presentation (in PPT format), with the corresponding script in MSWord or PDF, and your Interfolio-generated CV using this form.
If there are more applications than slots, an ad hoc faculty committee will give priority to tenure-track faculty who have not presented at any of the three prior Cross-College Faculty Research Symposia. The deadline for applications is Oct. 21st, 2024.
PECHAKUCHA FAQ
What is a PechaKucha? 20 slides. 20 seconds of commentary per slide. PechaKucha (Japanese for “chit chat”) is a presentation format in which presenters show 20 slides and talk about them for 20 seconds each (approx. 6.5 minutes total). The 20 slides will automatically advance after 20 seconds, forcing the presenter to be concise. The snappy and strict format is both informative and fun and allows for scholars from many disciplines to find common ground for sharing their work.
How will Baruch’s PechaKucha Event work? Full-time faculty from across the College selected to participate will take turns giving their 20X20 PechaKucha presentations on their original research projects (either in process or recently published) over two half-day sessions—one in the Fall and one in the Spring. The event will be capped off by a reception where conversations about each presenter’s work can continue. This event for Baruch faculty will be a great way to discover the exciting range of research being conducted across the college, to find colleagues with overlapping interests to foster possible future collaborations, and to have fun and learn from each other!
How can I present my research? Faculty are invited to apply to present a PechaKucha by filling out an application form. Participants will be selected to represent a diversity of topics, disciplines, and schools at Baruch. An ad hoc faculty committee will select applicants if there are more applications than slots available. If selected, the final version of your PechaKucha presentation should be submitted one week before the event.
How do I create a PechaKucha presentation? The key to a great PechaKucha presentation is that the slides are primarily images rather than text. Too much text is hard to digest in 20 seconds and images are more immediately engaging. The presenter describes the content and concepts orally to align with each image. Presentations can be designed in any slide program, such as PowerPoint or Google Slides. There are settings to make sure the slides advance automatically after 20 seconds, so you want to make sure to enable those settings. It’s also important to create a script and practice it so that when you present live you will be in synch with your rapidly advancing slides. Maybe this will be challenging, but it will also be part of the fun!
Helpful Resources:
- PechaKucha-style video about how to do a PechaKucha
- A video about how to design a presentation using PowerPoint
For questions, please contact Associate Provost Raquel Fich