MBRS-RISE Students have numerous opportunities to gain experience by presenting their research as posters and oral presentations.  At most events, they will first send in a mentor-approved abstract and then prepare their presentations.  The program owns a wide format printer and will allow students to use the RISE/MARC Techlab to practice their presentations.

Conferences:  All RISE Students are funded to attend an annual conference to present their results. Usually, conferences involve staying at a hotel in a U.S. city, and meeting with other researchers with similar research interests.  Freshmen and Jr/Sr students go to ABRCMS or SACNAS as their first conference.  Try to go to as many conferences as possible before you graduate;  try to win travel awards from the conferences!

Regional:  Frequently, there will be regional conferences in your field.  Do all that you can do to get there!  Usually these are shorter and no terribly costly to attend.  A regional SACNAS meeting will be held at UTSA on August 7, 2009, in conjunction with the College of Sciences Presentation day.

UTSA: UTSA has several annual opportunities to present.  The Graduate School has a Poster competition even in Spring, during which graduate students can win cash prizes.  Two RISE Students, Annette Rodriguez (current RISE student)  and Stephen Rodriguez (past RISE student) won the competition in 2009.   http://www.utsa.edu/today/2009/04/gradresearch.cfm  !!  The College of Science also has a poster competition event on August 7, 2009.  Finally, the ESB Conference http://www.utsa.edu/today/2009/04/esbconference.cfm occurs annually, in Spring.

Program:  The UTSA RISE Program has several opportunities for student presentation.   At the end of their first Summer, all fsRISE and new RISE and MARC Jr/Sr students who remained on the UTSA campus, will make poster presentations.  The RISE Symposium, held in early Fall, includes oral and poster presentations by all active RISE and MARC students.  In Spring, students should present their work at the UTSA ESB conference:  http://www.utsa.edu/today/2009/04/esbconference.cfm .  Finally, the semester that they graduate, all students make a final presentation of their work at the RISE/MARC Awards day (new activity).

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