RISE Undergraduate Presentations
Thank you for your interest in the UTSA RISE Undergraduate program. After 45 years, and hundreds of undergraduates trained and launched into amazing scientific careers as doctoral level scientists, the UTSA RISE program has ended. We celebrate our students and their accomplishments and will continue to seek out ways to support the highly talented and dedicated future scientists at UTSA.
Students had numerous opportunities to gain experience by presenting their research as posters and oral presentations. At most events they would first send in a mentor-approved abstract and then prepared their presentation. The program owns a wide format printer and allowed students to use the MARC/RISE Techlab to practice their presentations.
Conferences
All RISE students were funded to attend an annual conference to present their results. Usually, conferences involved staying at a hotel in a U.S. city and meeting with other researchers with similar research interests. Freshmen and undergraduate students went to ABRCMS or SACNAS as their first conference. Students were advised to try to go to as many conferences as possible before graduateing and to try to win travel awards from the conferences!
Regional Conferences
Students were also advised that there would frequently be regional conferences in their field and to do all that they could do to get there! Usually these are shorter and not terribly costly to attend.
Program
There were several opportunities for student presentation. At the end of their first Summer, all freshman/sophomore RISE and new RISE and MARC undergraduate students who remained on the UTSA campus made poster presentations in the Provost's Summer Research Presentations. The RISE Symposium, held in early Fall, includeed oral and poster presentations by all active RISE and MARC students. Finally, in the semester that they graduated, all students made a final presentation of their work at the MARC/RISE Awards day.
