The Spring Undergraduate Research Festival is a presentation opportunity for all students engaging in undergraduate research who wish to share their work.
Application Information
The 2024 Spring Undergraduate Research Festival application is now closed. View the Program Brochure to see the student presenters, mentors, and project titles. Please check back during the 2024-25 school year for information on the 2025 Spring Undergraduate Research Festival.
Who can participate and what are the benefits of participation?
The annual Spring Undergraduate Research Festival is a research poster forum for students to share their mentored research projects with the broader academic community. At the Spring Festival, we offer presentations during 60 minute sessions, where students convey their research with the aid of a poster. As with the other forums hosted by UR&CI, the Spring Festival is not specific to any discipline; students from all disciplines across the university are invited to apply, and student presenters should prepare to discuss their research with a general audience. The Spring Festival is open to all undergraduate students at Ohio State who are participating in faculty-mentored research, and students can present on projects that are still ongoing - final results are not necessary for participation.
Visit the 2023 Spring Festival Program Brochure to see all the presenters listed by session time.
When and where will the 2024 Spring Undergraduate Research Festival be held?
The 2024 Spring Festival took place in-person on Thursday, April 4, in the TDAI Ideation Zone in Pomerene Hall across five sessions throughout the day:
Session 1: 9:00am – 10:00am
Session 2: 10:30am – 11:30am
Session 3: 12:30pm – 1:30pm
Session 4: 2:00pm – 3:00pm
Session 5: 3:30pm – 4:30pm
Where can I find examples of Undergraduate Research Festival posters and presentations?
Templates for research posters can be found on our Writing and Presenting Research page.
Some posters from previous Undergraduate Research Festivals can be accessed in the OSU Libraries' Knowledge Bank Undergraduate Research Festival collection.
Browse the Spring Festival program to see all the great presenters who participated in the 2022 Spring Undergraduate Research Festival.
The presentations from the 2021 Virtual SURF can be found at: https://u.osu.edu/2021springfestival/