Welcome to the 28th Stetson Showcase. 

The event debuted in 1999 as the Undergraduate Scholarship and Performance Day, and later became the Undergraduate Scholarship Day and then the Stetson Undergraduate Research and Creative Arts Symposium. Today, Stetson Showcase is one of the oldest and most distinctive comprehensive Undergraduate Research Days nationwide.

This year, the theme is “Currents of Curiosity: Crossing Streams,” which reflects the increasing opportunities of interconnectivity as academic and creative interests take us all in directions never imagined. At the same time, new currents charged by artificial intelligence provide speedy thoroughfares as we contemplate our futures in research, but can also challenge us with the issues of ethical use. Finally, the theme addresses all the ways we have broken out of the main currents and explored the smaller rivulets that promise to take us to completely new places in our academic and creative work.

The Showcase, beginning at 9 a.m. throughout the campus, consists of approximately 170 posters, art exhibitions and museum studies, music recitals, oral presentations and more. For details, see the Stetson Showcase program.

Classes are canceled for the entire day, and a maximum of three cultural credits are available for the symposium event. (At each venue, students must take a QR code photograph at the end of a presentation. A cultural credit will require three QR codes logged.) 

To conclude the day, as part of a reception in the Marshall & Vera Lea Rinker Welcome Center beginning at 6 p.m., Dr. Antonio Byrd serves as the Grady Ballenger Keynote Speaker. Byrd, associate professor of English at the University of Missouri – Kansas City, will present “GenAI Use from Research to Publishing: A Framework for Setting Boundaries as a Young Scholar.”

Byrd will describe a framework for evaluating GenAI tools in research. Also, he’ll discuss the implications of using GenAI for common research practices and how academic editors are navigating this evolution in the knowledge-making landscape. An additional full unit of cultural credit can be earned by attending the keynote address.