SPRING SYMPOSIUM
One of CURB’s key events is the annual Spring Symposium. Similar to the Fall Forum, hundreds of undergraduates from all majors and disciplines have presented their hard work for over 25 years in undergraduate forums. In addition, keynote speakers including Harold Varmus (Nobel Laureate in Physiology) have addressed research and Cornell communities with words of advice to help guide students on their paths to the future.
This event gives undergraduate students in all fields the opportunity to share their findings and results with the Cornell community in a poster competition. By hosting the Spring Symposiumum, one of Cornell’s largest undergraduate research colloquium, we hope to stress the importance of undergraduate research and give our student presenters the opportunity to gain valuable feedback on their work, practice their science communication skills, and make an impact on other undergraduates who may be wondering whether they should join Cornell’s research community too.
THE CORNELL UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH BOARD PRESENTS
Spring Symposium 2022
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Spring Symposium 2021
2021 Finalists
Applied Research
Best in Category
Stephie Lux - Winner
Raye Liu
Ja Young Byun
Best Science Communication
Shreya Venkatesh - Winner
Antonio Martinez
Best in Scientific Graphics
Amol Paranjape - Winner
Humanities
Best in Category
Charlotte Borgers - Winner
Emi Carpenter
Social Impact Award
Catherine Gorey - Winner
Yifei Wang
Elita Gao
Life Sciences
Best in Category
Garrett Ruff - Winner
Yochabed Miliard
Akanksha Acharya
SeJin Park
Best Science Communication
Viktoria Catalán - Winner
Poster Presenter Abstracts
This year, each presenter prepared a video abstract to describe their research project. To access a specific presenter's video, please click on their name below. If a presenter does not have a linked video abstract, you can find their written abstract in the abstract booklet below.
Spring Symposium 2019
Previous Keynote Speakers
Harold E. Varmus - Spring Symposium 2019
Harold Varmus, M.D., shared a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1989 with J. Michael Bishop, M.D. for their discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes. In 1993, President Bill Clinton appointed him as the first Nobel laureate to direct the National Institutes of Health (NIH). There, he recruited top researchers as directors, helped to initiate a doubling of the NIH budget, and established PubMed Central, a free archive of published papers.
Michael Kotlikoff - Spring Symposium 2018
Michael I. Kotlikoff is an American researcher, academic leader, and veterinarian, who is currently the Provost of Cornell University. He has been continuously funded by the NIH since 1986, and made significant contributions to muscle biology, heart repair, and mouse genetics.