SOURCE Mission Statement 

The mission of the Symposium for University Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE) is to provide a university-wide forum for Central Washington University (CWU) students, encouraging equity, diversity, and inclusivity, representing all disciplines and experience levels, to present their mentored research, scholarship, and creative works in a juried environment that meets professional conference standards and expectations.

Accomplishing this mission will foster best-practice-teaching and mentoring, promote the significance and relevance of research, scholarship and creative works, engage a range of CWU stakeholders in distinguishing aspects of CWU’s educational environment, and enhance the professional skills of students.

SOURCE 2020 - Online! 

The event will begin Monday, May 18th, at 8am and end Sunday, May 24th, at 9pm.  

Access the virtual event page here. The password for the campus community is CWUCrimson. 

SOURCE 2020 Program 

The Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR) and the SOURCE Committee are partnering with the Student Opportunity Center (SOC) to host SOURCE 2020 as an online event. 

reSOURCE Award

CWU Libraries and the Friends of the Brooks Library will award up to four SOURCE projects the reSOURCE award for outstanding use of library resources in your project. This includes books, journals, Archives & Special Collections, databases, library equipment, and even our programs and spaces!  The library faculty and staff themselves are resources in your research journey.  See https://www.lib.cwu.edu/ for all that the CWU Libraries have to offer. To apply, write a brief essay, less than 250 words, on how you used the library and/or its resources in your work and submit the essay with SOURCE abstracts (Feb 24^th – Apr 3^rd). A library committee will select the winners and each of the four awardees will received $100.