Happy Friday! It has indeed been an especially busy Week in UR for just about everyone involved with undergraduate research at TSC. Our annual Undergraduate Research Symposium is now just days away, and everyone, especially our student researchers, has been hard at work making final preparations. TSC’s 2026 Undergraduate Research Symposium will be held next Wednesday, April 1, from 9:00 to 6:00, at locations throughout TSC’s campus. The symposium is the final, culminating event of the academic year for the Undergraduate Research Program. It’s a celebration of the incredible work that our student researchers have done throughout the year, and I’m excited to share a few final details about next week’s symposium.
First, I want to emphasize that TSC’s annual Undergraduate Research Symposium is open to anyone who would like to attend, including members of the broader community. Indeed, we strongly encourage anyone with an interest in research to come out and hear about the fantastic work that our student researchers have done throughout the academic year. What all of us want most when we present at a research conference is for an attentive audience to engage with our research findings, and we welcome all members of our TSC community, and the community at large, to be among our presenters’ audience members. Complete details about event, including the times and locations of individual presentations, and individual presentation abstracts, can be found in the event program, which is now published on our website: www.tsc.fl.edu/research
For student researchers presenting at next Wednesday’s symposium, I also want to reiterate that the leadership of OSPUR, our undergraduate research student organization, will sponsor, for the first time this year, a pre-symposium peer review session, where our presenters can do a trial run of their presentations, on the day before the symposium and in one of our symposium venues. Additionally, our OSPUR student leaders- Moises Chacon, Sunny Thomas, and Mikayli Ingram- will share some tips for success when making research presentations. All three of our OSPUR leaders have presented at multiple statewide research conferences, and they have much knowledge to share, which will be especially helpful for first-time presenters. This first annual OSPUR Pre-Symposium Peer Review Session will be held this coming Tuesday, March 31, in the Student Union Ballroom, from 3:00-4:00. We hope that all symposium presenters will be able to attend!
Finally, I just want to extend a special invitation to anyone and everyone who has contributed in some way to the Undergraduate Research Program over the past year (Even if just in the form of well wishes!), to attend the closing awards ceremony and reception for next week’s symposium. At this time, we will recognize each of our student presenters with a personalized certificate and award medallion, announce the winners of our cash awards and, most importantly, celebrate the accomplishments of our student researchers. There will be refreshments on offer for all attendees, and we especially welcome all friends of the UR Program to join us. The closing awards ceremony will be held in the Workforce Development Center (WD), room 105, from 4:30 to 6:00. A campus map is included on page 6 of the event program for anyone who might need it.
That’s about it for this installment of the Week in UR. I’ll be back in another two weeks or so with more announcements about exciting opportunities for student researchers at TSC, and news about the great work that our researchers will be doing right up until the final weeks of the academic year. In the interim, I very much hope all friends of the Undergraduate Research Program will join us Wednesday for the TSC’s 2026 Undergraduate Research Symposium!
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