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Students: Save a presentation slot during Priority Registration! Category and modality choices are limited after Priority Registration closes. Late Registration begins Thursday, June 19.

Abstracts/Proposals do not need to be complete at the time of registration. Final edits to MidSURE registrations are due Thursday, July 10 at 11:59 PM.

Visitors, mentors, family, and friends are welcome to attend the forum, and registration is not required.

Eligible Presenters:

• Current MSU undergraduates
• MSU December 2024 and May 2025 graduates
• Visiting undergraduate students participating in summer research programs
• Undergraduate researchers from other Michigan institutions
• High School students participating in MSU sponsored research programs

Types of research and creative activity accepted:

• Preliminary
• In Progress
• Completed Projects
• Course-based Research
• Internship/REU
• Education Abroad
• Community-based Participatory Research
• Work conducted during any semester (fall, spring, summer) or over multiple semesters
• Presented at other venues (college/department forums, off-campus conferences, etc.)
• Any stage of the research process (literature review, method development, etc.)
• Other types that we missed on this list!

Click on the link that follows for more details about poster presentation requirements.

The 27th UURAF was held onsite at the Breslin Center and online at Symposium. Over 1,100 students from 14 colleges participated in the event. They were mentored by over 700 faculty, staff, post-doctoral fellows, graduate students, and government/industry partners. There were over 900 presentations in 33 different subject areas.

2025 Grand Prize - announced in mid-June

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The 14th annual Mid-Michigan Symposium for Undergraduate Research Experiences (Mid-SURE) brought together undergraduate students from diverse academic disciplines to share their research and creative activities with the university community. Over 350 undergraduate students from over 100 different institutions participated in Mid-SURE 2024. These students were mentored by more than 300 faculty, staff, post-doctoral fellows, graduate students, and government or industry researchers. Pre-recorded presentations from the online portion of the event are available at symposium.foragerone.com/midsure2024

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The 26th UURAF was held onsite at the Breslin Center and online at Symposium. Over 1,000 students from 12 colleges participated in the event. They were mentored by over 600 faculty, staff, post-doctoral fellows, graduate students, and government/industry partners. There were over 700 presentations in 32 different subject areas.

2024 Grand Prize Recipients

• Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts Grand Prize: Gracie Rudolfi, Natalie Liliensiek and Lorraine Inman, The Impact of Foregrounding on Aesthetic Experience: An Analysis of Real-Time Responses to Sonnets
  
• Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Grand Prize: Coral Brock, Root and Shoot Acylsugar Screening Across the Solanaceae Using LC-MS
  

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Event Photos

Awards Ceremony Photos

Mentors of the Year

The 13th annual Mid-Michigan Symposium for Undergraduate Research Experiences (Mid-SURE) brought together undergraduate students from diverse academic disciplines to share their research and creative activities with the university community. Approximately 330 undergraduate students from more than 100 different institutions participated in Mid-SURE 2023. These students were mentored by more than 350 faculty, staff, post-doctoral fellows, graduate students, and government or industry researchers. Pre-recorded presentations from the online portion of the event are available at symposium.foragerone.com/mid-sure2023

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Mid-SURE 2023 Photo Album

The 25th UURAF was held onsite at the Breslin Center and online at Symposium. Nearly 900 students from 14 colleges participated in the event. They were mentored by over 500 faculty, staff, post-doctoral fellows, graduate students, and industry partners. There were 633 presentations in 34 different subject areas. The first place awards, program book, and other resources can be found in the links below. 

2023 Grand Prize Recipients

• Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts Grand Prize: Elena Sheperd and Hannah Calender, Michigan Prohibition
• Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Grand Prize (tie): Harrison Nabors, Characterization of CDKN2A/p16 as a Tumor-Specific Promoter
• Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Grand Prize (tie): Alyssa Mollema and Caz Schwennesen, Evaluating the Effects of Climate Change-Inspired Heat Waves on the Coevolutionary Relationship Between Common Milkweed (Asclepias Syriaca) and Monarch Butterflies (Danaus Plexippus)

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• Mentor of the Year Awards
• Event Photos
• Awards Ceremony Photos
  

The 12th annual Mid-Michigan Symposium for Undergraduate Research Experiences (Mid-SURE) brought together undergraduate students from diverse academic disciplines to share their research and creative activities with the university community. Nearly 400 undergraduate students from more than 110 different institutions participated in Mid-SURE 2022. These students were mentored by more than 360 faculty, staff, post-doctoral fellows, graduate students, and government or industry researchers. Pre-recorded presentations from the online portion of the event are available here.

Program Book Addendum

Mid-SURE 2022 Addendum

The 24th UURAF was held at the Jack Breslin Student Events Center and online at Symposium by ForagerOne. Over 750 students from 14 colleges/academic units participated in the event. They were mentored by over 500 faculty, staff, post-doctoral fellows, graduate students, and industry partners. There were 568 presentations in 27 different subject areas. The first place awards and program book can be found in the links below.

2022 Grand Prize Recipients

• Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts Grand Prize: Ellie Friedman and Sam Bourgeois, Assessing Writing in Children Who Use African American English: The Impact of a Culturally Responsive Scoring Approach in Grades 3-4
  
• Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Grand Prize: Hariharan Ramakrishnan, Adenosine Receptor Antagonism Reduces Chemotherapy Side Effects in Mice as Cisplatin-Induced Kidney Toxicity and Painful Neuropathy
  

The 11th annual Mid-Michigan Symposium for Undergraduate Research Experiences (Mid-SURE) brought together undergraduate students from diverse academic disciplines to share their research and creative activities with the university community. A total of 342 undergraduate students from more than 115 different institutions participated in Mid-SURE 2021. These students were mentored by more than 325 faculty, staff, post-doctoral fellows, graduate students, and government or industry researchers. Pre-recorded presentations are available at symposium.foragerone.com/midsure2021

The 23rd UURAF was an asynchronous, virtual event hosted on Symposium by ForagerOne from April 15 - 19, 2021.

Over 600 students from 16 colleges/academic units participated in the event. They were mentored by over 450 faculty, staff, post-doctoral fellows, graduate students, and industry partners. There were 483 presentations in 30 different subject areas. The program book and a complete list of first place award winners can be found in the links below.

2021 Grand Prize Recipients

• Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts Grand Prize: Berkley Sorrells, Stitched Together: Documenting the Vibrancy of Black Bottom Detroit Through Redwork Quilting
  
• Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Grand Prize: Mackenzie Greene, FDA Approved Drug Bicalutamide Rescues Male Mice from Kennedy's Disease
  

The 10th annual Mid-Michigan Symposium for Undergraduate Research Experiences (Mid-SURE) was held virtually on August 4th - 10th.  It brought together undergraduate students from diverse academic disciplines to share their research and creative activities with the university community. Over 250 undergraduate students from 30 different institutions participated in Mid-SURE 2020. These students were mentored by more than 250 faculty, staff, graduate students, and government or industry researchers.

The 22nd annual event was canceled due to the coronavirus outbreak. Please view the UURAF program booklet to learn about the outstanding research and creative endeavors by nearly 1,000 undergraduate students who registered to present at the forum.  These students represent 14 different colleges and were mentored by more than 700 facutly, staff, and graduate students.

The 9th annual Mid-Michigan Symposium for Undergraduate Research Experiences (Mid-SURE) brought together undergraduate students from diverse academic disciplines to share their research and creative activities with the university community. A total of 406 students participated this year.

At the 21st Annual UURAF, 920 students from 14 different colleges shared their research with the university community.  These students were mentored by more than 600 faculty members. The program book and a complete list of first place award winners can be found in the links below.

2019 Grand Prize Recipients

• Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts Grand Prize: Sarah Dec, Audrey Saggau-Drotos, Paul Clancy, and Anusha Mamidipaka; How Talker Rhythm Affects Speech Understanding in Noise
• Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Grand Prize: Adam Fillion; Specific Binding to Magnetic Nanoparticles as a Method of Mitochondrial Purification and Immobilization
  

The 8th annual Mid-Michigan Symposium for Undergraduate Research Experiences (Mid-SURE) brought together undergraduate students from diverse academic disciplines to share their research and creative activities with the university community. A total of 336 students participated this year.