SLU Festival of Science Abstract Submission Template
1.Replace the name, department, faculty advisor[s], title, and abstract in the example below the dashed line with your own abstract and header.If copying from Word document, please highlight the title in the template and paste the title from your original file in the following way: Paste > Paste Special > Unformatted Text. Repeat this for the body of your abstract.The abstract is in Arial for ease of reading and to give the program a neat, uniformed appearance.
2.The abstract should be self-contained. Do not attach a list of Keywords after the abstract, or a list of references to the literature. The abstract should tell the reader (a) any appropriate context for your work, (b) what you did, (c) what your results are, and (d) the significance of the results. Abstracts cannot exceed 250 words. We prefer single-paragraph abstracts.
3.For scientific equations, use only standard characters, native Microsoft Office Equations (Insert Equation), or MathType.If you use different software, we cannot guarantee that your equations will be readable in the Festival program.
4.Proofread your abstract thoroughly and have others proofread it before you submit. Use italics in the abstract as your discipline’s style dictates (e.g. U. maritimus) but please revert to boldface when such terms appear in the title (e.g. Cannabalism among U. maritimusin Norway.)
5.Do not insert graphs or tables into the abstract. Images are acceptable (such as the chemical structure in the example below) ONLY WHEN they are indispensable to the abstract.
6.Do not use ALL-CAPS for the title or any other part of the abstract.
7.AFTER you have replaced all the text in the example below, delete the dashed line and everything above it, and save this file as a Word document, with a filename consisting of the main presenter’s last name, then first name, such as ‘SmithJoseph3.docx’.
SAMPLE ABSTRACT below:
Names have been modified to show how to deal with multiple authors, advisors. If there is a single advisor, please change “Advisors” to “Advisor”.
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Wenyao Zhang, Sam Jacobson, and Millicent Howard
Chemistry and NeuroscienceFaculty Advisors: Katherine Johnson,
Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson
Probing the Reaction Mechanism of the Wagner-Jauregg Reaction:
Hammett Study of 4-Substituted Styrenes
Phase transitions are ubiquitous in nature; for example, water experiences a phase change when vapor condenses to form droplets. While most phase transitions are studied as temperature dependent functions, few target other factors, such as magnetic field. Here, we examine both the magnetic field induced and temperature induced birefringence in 4-cyano-4'-pentylbiphenyl (also known as 5CB), as two ways to observe and measure the isotropic-nematic phase transition in the liquid crystal system. The liquid crystal 5CB is chosen as our analyte because it is in a liquid crystal phase at room temperature and its properties have been well reported in the literature. We show that the optical property of birefringencefor 5CB can be controlled by changing the magnitude of the applied magnetic field and temperature. Our data indicate that the change of birefringence of 5CB is inversely proportional to the temperature and proportional to the square of the magnetic field.