Attention University of Illinois graduate students! You're engaged in fascinating, ground-breaking research. Your archival work, ethnographies, and textual analysis are transformative. You can analyze a data set like nobody's business. You design, choreograph, sculpt, compose, and create works that can change the world.
But can you get a general audience interested and excited about what you do in only 3 minutes?
How to Enter
The deadline to enter is Sunday, March 1, 2026, by 11:59 p.m.
Interested in sharing your research? Find out more about how to enter, the preliminary rounds, and the the finalists' showcase.
Event Details
Save the date for Tuesday, April 7, 2026. Additional details coming soon!
Come cheer on our finalists and learn about their fascinating work as they give their live presentations. The event will also include people’s choice voting, announcement of the winners, and a reception.
Quote from Dean Chodzko-Zajko
To capture what you do as an intellectual and a scholar in three minutes with just one slide and in a way that is understood by a general audience is difficult to do. But watching our students do just that makes Research Live! one of my favorite events of the year.
Wojtek Chodzo-Zajko, Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Dean of the Graduate College