Abstract
Please upload your Abstract section in Canvas. Ensure that adheres to the rubric and guidelines provided below.
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AbstractLinks to an external site.: A summary of your research. As the rubric states, this section should be able to stand on its own to give an overview of your entire research. Consider this the “teaser” of your paper. Abstracts are used on our Physiology Symposium program to inform attendees (not applicable for summer semesters). You should use this to entice people to find out more about your research. In professional settings, abstracts are used in a similar fashion during conferences and are used by peer-reviewed journals to entice people to subscribe to read the entire paper. In the rubric, you will notice you must include the following in your abstract:
(1) Describes the major conceptual issue or biological question that was studied
(2) Includes basic descriptions of the methods used to answer these questions
(3) Describes in a concise fashion the basic findings of the research
(4) Places the findings of the research in context and presents the implications of the findings
*items 3 &4 will not be required until you submit your Poster/Power Point. Points 1&2 make up the BULK of your abstract! Please read through multiple examples to know what to include in your abstract.
Sample Abstract
body’s 24-hour cycle of biological processes and is affected by external factors such as light and
temperature. This study tested the accuracy of participants’ internal clocks
related to their daily exposure to blue light. The experiment involved individuals of different age
groups who gave an estimate of their average blue light exposure and were then asked to
intuitively stop a timer at one minute. We then recorded their deviancy from 60 seconds.
After gathering and analyzing all our data, we found that although blue light has been
well proven to affect melatonin production, in our participants we found a mild inverse
correlation between blue light exposure and internal clock deviancy.
