The 2025 Duke Undergraduate Research Symposium will take place on April 10, 2025 from 4-6 pm in Penn Pavilion.
Our annual symposium is a celebration of ongoing research from across campus being conducted by our talented undergraduate students. Duke Community: We invite you to attend our annual symposium to show your support of our undergraduate researchers and get a sense of the vast research being done in Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences, and Natural & Quantitative Sciences here on our campus.
More details to follow! For questions, email ursoffice@duke.edu
Presenter Information
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Submission Requirements
- You are required to have your faculty mentor approve the submission of your abstract before you register. Please discuss this with them prior to filling out this form. Note that your faculty research mentor will receive a follow up email with a copy of everything once you submit this form.
- Your abstract will go into our Undergraduate Research Symposium Abstract Book that will be publicly available online.
- Abstracts should be a single paragraph, with no references, of no more than 2500 characters (including spaces and excluding title and authors). Please do not use Greek letters or other symbols.
- You may reuse abstracts you've used for previous conferences
Poster Requirements
- Posters must not exceed 48x36 inches.
- If you already have a poster that you have used to present your research at a previous symposium, you are welcome to use that.
- If you need a new poster: Consult with your research mentor to determine if they have the funds to cover poster printing. Our office will set up a conference pickup link so that you can submit your poster to be printed (and your method of payment). You will be able to pick up the poster in Penn Pavilion on the day of the symposium. You can indicate whether you will be using an old poster, submitting on our conference pickup link, or independently handling your own poster printing on our form above.
- If using our conference pickup link: Posters must be submitted through the Duke URS group account by Wednesday, April 9 at 5 pm. Posters will be delivered by PhD Posters to Penn Pavilion on the day of the Symposium (April 10).