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Conference and Funding Opportunities

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.

Table of Travel Scholarships and their discipline, travel scholarship application deadline, and poster deadline.
Program Discipline Travel Scholarship Application Deadline Poster Deadline
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

Table of Touring Graduate Programs and their discipline, application deadline, and whether there is funding provided.
Program Discipline Application Deadline Funding Provided

AAAI-24 Undergraduate Consortium

Computing/Artificial Intelligence Early November See Website

ChE Graduate Expo - UMichigan

Chemical Engineering Late November Yes

IOE Graduate Workshop - UMichigan 

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
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