Submitted by: Caroline Bivins, cbivins@uca.edu on 02/20/2026
⚡ BearBolt Research Pitch Competition ⚡
BearBolt Research is an elevator pitch competition that gives graduate students like yourselves just one PowerPoint slide and 90 seconds to communicate your research project or agenda. The Graduate School is hosting its first competition in March. All currently enrolled graduate students are eligible to participate and compete for cash prizes of up to $250! Online and on-campus graduate students are able to present research they are currently conducting for a thesis, dissertation, terminal project, or an original future research project. Registration to participate in the competition is now open until Saturday, March 7, 2026 at 11:59 p.m Central Time.

