Information for campus submissions is contained in a memorandum issued Dec. 13, 2006 by the Office of the Chancellor (AA-2006-50) attach PDF file of coded memo), which can be viewed here.  Most of the information contained in the memorandum is copied below.

The competition is held to promote excellence in undergraduate and graduate scholarly research and creative activity by recognizing outstanding student accomplishments throughout the twenty-three campuses of the California State University.

Undergraduate or graduate students currently enrolled at any CSU campus, as well as alumni/alumnae who received their degrees in spring, summer, or fall 2006, are eligible. The research presented should be appropriate to the student’s discipline and career goals. Proprietary research is excluded. Presentations from all disciplines are invited. There will be separate undergraduate and graduate divisions for each of the following categories (unless a division has fewer than four entrants, in which case undergraduate and graduate divisions will be combined). The California State University, Dominguez Hills steering committee reserves the right to adjust categories as numbers of submissions necessitate.

The ten categories are as follows:

• Behavioral and Social Sciences

• Biological and Agricultural Sciences

• Business, Economics and Public Administration

• Creative Arts and Design (creative projects are welcome-see "Competition Guidelines")

• Education

• Engineering and Computer Science

• Health, Nutrition and Clinical Sciences

• Humanities and Letters

• Physical and Mathematical Sciences

• Interdisciplinary

A campus delegation may include up to ten entries in the ten categories. (A small team of students making a single presentation counts as a single entry.) Every CSU campus is encouraged to submit as many entries as possible, up to the maximum of ten.

Each CSU campus appoints a campus coordinator and develops its own procedures for selecting its student delegates to the
system-wide competition. Interested students should contact their campus coordinator for information on how to have their work
|considered at the campus level. Only those students endorsed by a campus coordinator can enter the statewide competition.

If a student’s work has been selected by the campus for the system-wide competition, the student will submit a Student Delegate Registration Form and five copies of a written summary of the research to the campus coordinator. The rules governing this
written summary are as follows:

• Each copy must include the name(s) of the student(s) and the title of the presentation.

• The narrative may not exceed five doubled-spaced pages. Use fonts and margins that ensure legibility.

• Appendices (bibliography, graphs, photographs, or other supplementary materials) may not exceed three pages.

• It is expected that the student will not make an oral presentation by simply reading directly from this summary.

Each campus coordinator must forward all registration forms and papers in a timely manner to:

CSU Student Research Competition

Laura Robles, Dean

Graduate Studies and Research

California State University, Dominguez Hills

1000 East Victoria Street

Carson, CA 90747

The forms and papers must arrive no later than March 16, 2007. Materials will not be returned. Campus coordinators will be
notified by email and in writing by the California State University, Dominguez Hills steering committee of the times of their student delegates’ presentations, local hotel and transportation options, and program details.

Students will present their work orally before a jury and an audience. Students will compete by discipline category and, where
feasible, by class standing (undergraduate/graduate), as described above in “Who May Apply.” Each student will have ten minutes
for an oral presentation of his or her work and five minutes to listen and respond to juror and audience questions. All entrants may use audiovisual materials as appropriate, and presenters are encouraged to use delivery techniques that promote interaction with
the audience. Entrants in the Creative Arts and Design category may present an audio and/or visual record of a performance they have given or a work they have created; their oral presentation should focus on the rationale and historical context underlying their interpretation of the material.

Each entry (oral presentation plus written summary) will be judged on the following:

• Clarity of purpose - 15%

• Appropriateness of methodology - 15%

• Interpretation of results - 15%

• Value of the research or creative activity - 15%

• Ability of the presenter to articulate the research or creative activity - 15%

• Organization of the material presented - 15%

• Presenter’s ability to handle questions from the jury and general audience - 10%

Based on the recommendations of the jurors, cash awards will be provided to the outstanding presenter and the runner-up in
both the undergraduate and graduate divisions of each category. If the undergraduate and graduate divisions of a category have
been combined because there are fewer than four presenters in one division, awards will be provided to the outstanding presenter
and the runner-up without regard to class standing.

Student questions should be directed to the local campus coordinator. Coordinators may contact Laura Robles by e-mail (lrobles@csudh.edu) or telephone (310) 243-3693.