Interested in presenting your research results? Wish to attend a conference to learn more about current research or prepare for graduate school? Wish to obtain funding to attend a conference? The Center of Excellence in STEM Education is committed to student and faculty professional development and growth. Check out the different types of conferences below as some are geared for students to present their research while others are aimed to develop students professionally and to network. Many of these conferences provide travel funds to students through a travel scholarship. So navigate to the websites below and start applying!! Additionally, priority funding is typically provided to students who present their research work; therefore be sure to apply to give a presentation whether it is in poster format or oral. Visit the websites and adhere to the deadlines for further information. Wherever you go, always network, network, network!!
Be sure to visit the remaining sites under the tab "Student Resources" to learn of other activities and our "Events Calendar" for upcoming workshops. If you have any helpful sites, please share your links and resources with us to improve the website materials for all; contact us to submit your contributions.
UTRGV Students: For funding opportunities, please visit the Student Government Association. To practice your talk, please visit the Hauser Speech Lab. If attending a conference, please download our Travel Form to submit university travel paperwork.
Travel Scholarship/Poster Deadlines
The travel scholarship application deadline is given for students to apply for travel funds to attend a conference. In addition, a poster deadline is provided which indicates the deadline by which a student submits his/her research abstract and other pertinent information to present his/her research at the conference.
Program | Discipline | Travel Scholarship Application Deadline | Poster Deadline |
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Joint Mathematics Meetings | Mathematics | Opens Sept. 1 | Opens Sept. 1 |
Google Conference Scholarships | STEM | See Website | See Website |
Texas A&M University Mathematics Conferences and Workshops | Math Majors | Varies by Event | Varies by Event |
AACR Annual Meeting | Biology, Clinical Laboratory Science | See Website | Late August |
Texas Undergraduate Mathematics Conference | UG Math Majors | Late September | See Website |
ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing | CS/Eng/Appl Math | Late March | Early March |
Entomology Annual Meeting | Entomology, Biology | See Website | Late August |
Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing | Computer Science / Computational Sciences | Early March | Early March |
SACNAS Conference | STEM | Late March | Late March |
ACM HotMobile 2023 | Computer Science, Computer Engineering | Mid January | Early January |
Plant Biology Montreal, Quebec | Biology, Plant Biology | See Website | See Website |
Endocrine Society - ENDO | Biology, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology | See Website | See Website |
Fall Undergraduate Research Symposium (FURS) at UT-Austin | STEM | See Website | Early September |
Modern Math Workshop at SACNAS | Mathematics, Statistics | Late July | Not Applicable |
Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) Conference | UG/Grad | Late June | Mid March |
Computing Research Association Widening Participation (CRA-WP) Workshops | UG/Grad | See Website | See Website |
Infinite Possibilities Conference | Mathematics, Statistics | Mid March | Mid April |
Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS) | Bio-medicine | Late August | Early September |
Conference for African American Researchers in the Mathematical Sciences (CAARMS) | Mathematical Sciences | Mid June | See Website |
Latinx in the Mathematical Sciences Conference | Mathematics | See Website | See Website |
CMD-IT Student Professional Development Workshop | Computing | See Website | See Website |
NextProf Science Workshop at Univ of Michigan |
STEM senior grad students and postdocs | Early February | See Website |
Undergraduate Research Conference at the Interface of Mathematics and Biology Hosted by NIMBioS |
Mathematical Biology | See Website | See Website |
Mathematical Biosciences Institute (MBI) Capstone Conference | STEM | See Website | See Website |
GROW Conference | STEM | Mid July | Mid July |
Young Mathematicians Conference | Mathematics | See Website | See Website |
SAMSI Workshops for Students Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute | Statistics/Appl Math | Varies by workshop | No posters required |
Great Minds in STEM -GMiS Conference | STEM | See Website | See Website |
SuperComputing Conference | CS/Eng | Early October | Early August |
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting | STEM | See Website | Early October |
SHPE Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers | Engineering | Mid August | See Website |
National Conference for College Women Student Leaders | STEM | Mid February | Mid May |
Alliance Mathematical Field of Dreams Conference | Mathematics | See Website | See Website |
Emerging Researchers National Conference in STEM Only for students currently funded by an NSF program | CS/Eng | See Website | See Website |
Southwestern Association of Naturalists | Science | Early June | Mid June |
ASME Engineering Conferences and Events | Design Engineering / Computers and Information in Engineering | Varies by Event | Varies by Event |
Texas Land Conservation Conference | Conservation Science | See Website | See Website |
Rally Conference | Conservation Science | Mid June | See Website |
Sustainable Water Management Conference | Science | See Website | See Website |
Land Conservation Conference | Conservation Science | See Website | See Website |
Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists | STEM | See Website | Late March |
American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists | STEM | See Website | Late April |
International Herpetological Symposium | STEM | See Website | See Website |
North American Reptile Breeders Conference | STEM | See Website | See Website |
Touring Graduate Programs
Program | Discipline | Application Deadline | Funding Provided |
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Computing/Artificial Intelligence | Early November | See Website | |
Chemical Engineering | Late November | Yes | |
Engineering | Late July | Yes | |
Engineering Graduate Program and Fellowship Application Bootcamp - Duke University |
Engineering | Late June | Yes |
Opportunities in Engineering Conference at the University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Engineering | Early October | Yes |