2025 Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium

College of Humanities, Arts, and Sciences

11:00-11:30 

Welcome, Marcy Seavey, UNI STEM Coordinator

Alumni Keynote by Physics Department Graduate, Taylor Walters

11:30-1:15

Poster Session - Summer Undergraduate Research students will present their research posters.  This session is open to the public and organized similar to an open house.  Guests are welcome to view the posters and discuss projects with the authors.  After the event, the program and posters are archived in UNI ScholarWorks, as appropriate.  Light refreshments are available.

1:15-1:30 

Department Photos and Closing Remarks

Guests - What to expect?  Presenting at the Symposium is the final activity after 10 weeks of preparation. Approximately 40 UNI students from a variety of STEM majors will present large format posters of their summer research projects. Students are prepared to describe and discuss their projects and answer questions. Posters are loosely organized by major/subjects. Visitors are not expected to talk to students at every poster, rather stop at the posters which are of interest to you! You do not need to have a background in the subject area to discuss a project with the author. In fact, our students gain valuable experience from talking with many people of varying degrees of prior knowledge about their topic.