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Presenting your Project Beyond SSU

There are many discipline-specific professional meetings and conferences that invite students to present their work as posters or short presentations. Presenting your research alongside professionals, academics, and peers in your field is not only a great experience, but it is also a noteworthy contribution to your CV or resume.

If you are ready to present your work at a professional meeting or conference, talk to your faculty mentor about venues they would recommend and any potential funding sources for travel reimbursement through your specific department.

Please see the information below on some opportunities for presenting your project.

Presenting Opportunities Beyond SSU

Apply for the 2025 CSU Student Research Competition at SSU's InfoReady by Monday, March 3, 2025.

The Annual California State University Student Research Competition is a system-wide competition that showcases excellent research conducted by CSU undergraduate and graduate students in the full range of academic programs offered by the CSU. The competition is held to promote excellence in undergraduate and graduate scholarly research and creative activity by recognizing outstanding student accomplishments throughout the twenty-three campuses of the California State University. 

Student participants make oral presentations before juries of professional experts from major corporations, foundations, public agencies, colleges and universities in California. 

The 39th Annual CSU Student Research Competition will be held on April 25-26, 2025 at Cal Poly Humboldt. Sonoma State will hold an internal competition to identify 10 projects that represent our campus at this system-wide event, and the SSU student researchers will be awarded travel funding to attend:

This year's competition is being held in-person and will be hosted by California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt on Friday, April 25th and Saturday, April 26th, 2025. The Sonoma State University Office of Research & Sponsored Programs is holding this internal competition to determine the 10 entries that will represent our campus at this event. Presentations from all academic disciplines are welcome to apply.


Undergraduate or graduate students currently enrolled at SSU, as well as alumnus/alumnae who received their degrees from SSU in Spring, Summer, or Fall of 2024 are eligible to apply.


A small team of students making a single presentation counts as a single entry. Only one person from each research team should submit an application. Please be sure to enter your co-researcher(s) information on the online application.


Please note: Your research does not need to be complete (with full results) by the internal application deadline of March 3rd in order to apply; however, if you are chosen to represent SSU at this event, you should plan to have some results to report at the competition at the end of April.


DEADLINE TO APPLY: Monday, March 3rd at 11:59 p.m.

CSUPERB administers competitive grant and award programs open to California State University (CSU) faculty and students. CSUPERB defines biotechnology as a fusion of biology and technology. CSUPERB welcomes and encourages applications from CSU faculty and students in all disciplines related to the current practice of biotechnology, including but not limited to life sciences, physical sciences, clinical sciences, math, computer science, agricultural science, engineering, and/or business. To learn more about CSUPERB programs click here.

The California Pre-Doctoral Program is designed to increase diversity within the pool of university faculty by supporting the doctoral aspirations of students in the CSU. In 2017-18, the California Pre-Doctoral Program will award funds to approximately 73 juniors, seniors and graduate students in the CSU. These funds are designed to enable current students to explore and prepare for doctoral programs in their chosen field of study. Recipients of this award will receive funding for participation in a summer research experience program at a doctoral-granting institution, visits to doctoral-granting institutions to explore opportunities for doctoral study, travel to a national symposium or professional meeting, and graduate school application and test fees.

Awards are based on competitive review of student applications and given to current upper-division undergraduate or graduate students who demonstrate academic excellence, while having experienced economic or educational disadvantage, and are committed to a career in teaching and research at the college or university level. All students enrolled on a CSU campus are eligible to participate. The 2020-21 application cycle will open in December 2019.  Interested candidates must work directly with the SSU campus coordinator, Dr. Daniel Malpica: daniel.malpica@sonoma.edu or (707) 664-2264.

Sonoma State’s Sally Cassanova Pre-Doctoral Scholars

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