When registering for on-campus symposium events hosted by the Office of Research, you will likely be asked to choose one of the following six disciplines. If you aren’t sure which category to select, browse each section of the guide below:
Arts
- Art and Design
- Music
- Theatre Arts
Engineering
- Biological Engineering Department
- Civil and Environmental Engineering Department
- Computer Science Department*
- Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
- Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department
Humanities
- Asian Studies Program
- Communication Studies and Philosophy Department***
- English Department
- History Department
- Intensive English Language Institute
- Latin American Studies Program
- Liberal Arts Program
- Religious Studies Program
- World Languages and Cultures Department
Life Science
- Animal, Dairy and Veterinary Sciences Department
- Biology Department
- Environment and Society Department***
- Plants, Soils and Climate Department
- School of Veterinary Medicine
- Watershed Sciences Department*
- Wildland Resources Department*
Physical Science
- Chemistry and Biochemistry Department**
- Geology Department
- Geosciences Department
- Mathematics and Statistics Department
- Nutrition, Dietetics and Food Sciences Department**
- Physics Department
Social Science and Education
- Applied Economics Department
- Center for Anticipatory Intelligence
- Communicative Disorders and Deaf Education Department
- Economics and Finance Department
- Engineering Education Department
- Human Development and Family Studies Department
- Instructional Technology and Learning Sciences Department
- Journalism and Communication Department
- Kinesiology and Health Science Department
- Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning Department****
- Management Department
- Management Information Systems Department
- Military Science Program
- Nursing
- Psychology Department
- Political Science Department
- School of Accountancy
- School of Applied Sciences, Technology and Education
- School of Teacher Education and Leadership
- Social Work Department
- Sociology and Anthropology Department*
- Special Education and Rehabilitation Department
- Women and Gender Studies Program
This is not an all-inclusive list; we recognize that, depending on the research, a project done in one department could be categorized as something else. We have also highlighted some departments that commonly fall under multiple categories.
*Could also be categorized as Physical Science
**Could also be categorized as Life Science
***Could also be categorized as Social Science and Education
****Could also be categorized as Arts