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  Once you have been accepted as a Ruhlman presenter, a final title and abstract for the conference program must be submitted by your advisor to ruhlman@wellesley.edu no later than Friday, February 8, 2008.

Each submission of a final abstract should follow the format below, as illustrated in the sample abstract at the bottom of this webpage:
  • Abstracts may be no longer than 150 words.

  • All text should use the font Times New Roman, font size 12.

  • We will also be able to include science abstracts that contain diagrams and scientific notation in this year's conference program. Please save these diagrams as pdf format, or if not possible, jpg or tiff format.

  • The e-mail copy should be prepared using Word on a PC or Mac platform. If you use a Mac, please use the extension .doc at the end of your filename.

  • Both the abstract and the Ruhlman Media Services and Special Needs form must have your presentation number, which was given to you when you submitted your proposal and which can be checked in this website at List of 2008 Presenters with their ID's. Type this presentation number at the top of your abstract exactly as shown in the sample abstract below.

  • The title of the abstract should be typed in bold, with no surrounding quotation marks. Please do not use all caps.

  • The names of the student presenters should be typed, in italics, exactly as they should appear and in the order they should appear in the printed program. The name of each presenter should be followed by her class year, then major (if declared).

    Example: Amanda Smith '01, English, Susan Jones '02, French

  • Insert the name(s) of the faculty advisor, and the department of the faculty advisor, (no italics) below the names of the student presenters and above the text of the abstract, formatted as shown in the sample abstract below.

  • Some student research is supported by grants from Wellesley College or other sources, including multicultural awards, NSF summer research support, and Schiff Fellowships. If you received grant support for your research, you should indicate the source of support in parentheses after the text of the abstract, as shown in the sample abstract below. Please see the list at the bottom of this webpage for the names of frequent sources of support for Ruhlman presentations.

  • One copy of the final abstract must be submitted as an attachment from your advisor's e-mail account to ruhlman@wellesley.edu. If you cannot arrange for your advisor to submit your abstract via e-mail after review, please contact ruhlman@wellesley.edu. Since the materials will be submitted to us by your advisor directly after his/her review, we will consider the direct submission evidence of your advisor's approval.

  • All materials should be ready for submission to the printer: clearly written and free of grammatical or typographical errors.

Your abstract must be submitted by your advisor to ruhlman@wellesley.edu no later than Friday, February 8, 2008. It must come as an attachment from your advisor's e-mail account, so that we know s/he has read and approved it. A final title and abstract must be submitted even if your title and abstract have not changed from your original submission, because we are requesting all participants to format their titles and abstracts in the same way. Please make sure to include your major(s) and to verify that your name and the names of any other participants in your group are correct and written as they should appear in the program.

To complete preparations for the conference, please also download the Ruhlman Media Needs and Special Services form here and submit it via e-mail to ruhlman@wellesley.edu by no later than Friday, February 8, 2008.

Please note that because of timing constraints related to the printing of the program, it is crucial that your materials be turned in by the above deadlines.

If necessary, we may edit your abstract slightly for clarity and consistency of style. However, abstracts that require substantial editing or exceed the 150-word limit will be returned to you for revision, and we cannot guarantee that these abstracts will be included in the conference program. Because of the strict publication deadlines under which we must work, we also cannot guarantee that materials submitted after the February 8 deadline will be printed in the final program. Similarly, if we do not receive a Ruhlman Media Services and Special Needs form by February 8 specifying your anticipated needs, we may not be able to accommodate these needs the day of the conference.

Additional examples of sample abstracts may be found in the Sample Abstracts section of this website. Abstracts from prior Ruhlman Conferences are available on this website.

We would like to thank you for your participation in this celebration of student achievement.

If you have additional questions about your participation in the 2008 Ruhlman Conference, please send them to ruhlman@wellesley.edu.
  


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Sample abstract

Presentation number: 54
Refugee Repatriation & Community Revitalization: Can Microcredit Lending Encourage Social and Economic Reintegration?
Chavi Keeney Nana '00, International Relations and German Language and Literature
Advisor: Craig N. Murphy, Political Science/International Relations
The frequency and magnitude of refugee flows produced by ethnic conflict in the post-Cold War period have forced the international community to reconsider its consistent rejection of repatriation as a viable solution to forced migration. If repatriation is to be successful, returning refugees must be reintegrated into communities torn by internecine warfare. Simultaneously, these communities must be socially rehabilitated and economically revitalized. Microcredit lending programs operate on the concept that community participation can be used to achieve economic self-sufficiency. Three repatriation programs established for the former Yugoslavia have incorporated lending schemes as a reintegration tool, and are evaluated on their ability to aid returnees and communities in post-conflict rehabilitation and reconstruction. (Research supported by a Schiff Fellowship)


Frequent sources of support for student/faculty research:

Amabel Boyce James Fund for Summer Research in the Sciences
Barbara Peterson Ruhlman Fund for Summer Research in the Social Sciences
BellSouth Mentoring in the Sciences Gift
Brachman Hoffman Fund
Elizabeth Davis Cook Student Research Fund
Pamela Daniels ’59 Fellowship
Keck Northeast Astronomy Consortium Grant
Lois Pattison deMenil Fellowship for European Study
Office of the Dean of the College
Educational Research and Development Committee
Virginia Fiske Fund
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
IBM Research Fund
John and Elizabeth Alden Little Science Fund
Janina A. Longtine Fund for Summer Research in the Natural Sciences
Sara Langer Fund for Research in Geosciences
Massachusetts Space Grant Consortium Grant
Georgeanne Miller Mulhern Fund for Student/Faculty Research in the Sciences
National Institutes of Health
National Science Foundation
Staley Fund for Cancer-Related Research
Jerome A. Schiff Fund
Joan and Herbert Schilder Student Research and Travel Fund
Robert and Karl Staley Fund
Marie and John Zimmermann Fund
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