# Research Live!

**Source**: https://grad.illinois.edu/engagement/awards-competitions/research-live
**Parent**: https://grad.illinois.edu/admissions/application-instructions

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Research Live!

# Research Live!

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](https://grad.illinois.edu/engagement/awards-competitions/research-live/how-enter "How to Enter") about how to enter, the preliminary rounds, and the the finalists' showcase.

## Event Details

Tuesday, April 7, 2026\
Gregory Hall Auditorium, Room 112\
5 p.m. - 7 p.m.

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 and announcement of the winners.

## 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