Judging Information

The success of the Spring Undergraduate Research Conference is due in large part to the many judges who provide feedback to the student presenters throughout the Conference. In addition to student feedback, the scores are used to disperse several presentation awards.

Judge Interest Application Link

To identify your interest and availability, please use one of the following forms: 

• Faculty, staff, post-docs, Purdue retirees, and graduate students with active BoilerKey access should use this Purdue Judge Form.  
• Anyone else (alums, parents, friends, industry professionals, community, etc.) without BoilerKey access should use this Community Judge Form to judge in-person posters or talks. (Due to the sensitive nature of the research data presentations, people without BoilerKey access cannot view/judge virtual presentations.) 
• Undergraduate students who wish to provide peer feedback do not need to register in advance. Directions for undergraduate students are available at the student check-in table at the events. 

You may select more than one way to judge. For the poster symposia, you will indicate which session(s) you can judge. For the research talks, we will use the availability you include to create a schedule and send that to you. Virtual presentations will be assigned closer to the event. 

We anticipate many more in-person presentations than virtual presentations. 

Judges' feedback will be used to make the final decision on which presenters receive awards.

Judging Incentive

Any judge who submits 6+ formal judging feedback forms through the Qualtrics system will receive a $20 gift card if they meet three requirements:

• Judges must be affiliated with Purdue as faculty, staff, post-doc, graduate student, official retiree, or approved by the Purdue OUR. (Undergraduates are excluded from this incentive.)
• Judges must complete the official registration form on this website and be assigned to qualify.
• Formal feedback forms that indicate a "no-show" do not count towards the 6+ forms needed.

Electronic gift cards will be sent to judges meeting these requirements in mid-May to allow for processing.

Logistics for Different Types of Presentations

In-person Presentations

Judges will be assigned presentations as they check-in. This process will ensure all posters and talks are evaluated equitably for feedback to the presenters and for the colleges to make award decisions. The goal of presentations is for student presenters to consider a generally educated audience, which allows for this general judging process. The evaluations will use Qualtrics to tabulate scores and feedback. This link will be provided the week of the Conference and at the check-in table. Judges are encouraged to bring a handheld device (tablet or phone if posters or laptop for research talks) to use. 

Exception: Digital humanities judges will judge those posters that fit their categories as there are additional questions to address their specific evaluation criteria.

Virtual Conference

Judges will be able to evaluate posters online from April 8-11. Judges will be assigned presentations to evaluate before the virtual conference and will complete a Qualtrics judging form for each presentation. Students have 7 minutes for their presentations. You are not be expected to attend a session or watch a live session for the virtual conference presentations.

2025 Judging Rubrics

Posters | Research Talks | Virtual Presentations | Digital Humanities Project (TBA) | Data Stewardship

 

Questions

For questions before an in-person event, please contact UGResearch@purdue.edu.

For questions the day of an in-person event, please stop by the registration table at the event.