Schedule of Events

Explore events throughout Undergraduate Research Week 2026! In addition to featured events such as the Undergraduate Research & Creativity Showcase, our campus partners are hosting online exhibitions, poster sessions, and presentations of their undergraduate students’ work at every stage of the research and creative process.

Bruin Research Powers Progress

Please join us online on Monday, May 18 at this year’s special student panel sessions “Bruin Research Powers Progress”! In these featured panels, UCLA undergraduates from across north and south campus will be in dialogue with one another and share their interdisciplinary research experiences.

📅 Monday, May 18

• Sabah Alidina
• Clarissa Carrillo
• Gianna Karkafi
• Alexandra Tabacu

• Amaya Ellis
• Jade Faircloth
• Syeda Rehman
• Tamanna Tikoo

🔗 Join us on Zoom: https://ucla.in/3NqIarS

Health, Nutrition, and Fitness Club’s Exploration of How Students’ Nutrition Knowledge Influences What They Choose to Eat at Dining Halls

Monday, May 18, 12-12:30pm

Location: Zoom

Event Registration Link: https://forms.gle/gfL6b1XnKvL55Ppy8

Do you actually eat healthier when you know more about nutrition, or does convenience always win? The UCLA Health, Nutrition, and Fitness Club investigated that throughout the 2025-2026 school year. This project explores the relationship between students’ nutrition knowledge and their real food choices at UCLA dining halls, from how confidently they read nutrition labels to whether crowded dining halls make healthy eating harder.

Through a student survey, we examine the factors that shape what ends up on your plate, such as knowledge, habits, social influence, time pressure, and more. Come hear what we found and what it means for how UCLA can better support students in eating well.

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Decoding Deschênes: New Insights into the Canadian Government’s Troubled War Crimes Investigation

Monday, May 18, 12-1:00pm

Location: Bunche 6275 and Zoom

Event Registration Link: https://forms.gle/nuAstvM5ECVFEmFJ9

Join the UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy for a presentation on the Deschênes Commission and the Canadian government’s investigation into alleged war criminals after World War II. Featuring Professor Jared McBride and presentations by UCLA undergraduates Leo Abadzhev, Marina Artukovic, Lillian Barrett, Nina Dinan, Leo Liu, Jordan Lombardi, and Linde Spear, this event explores new insights into one of Canada’s most controversial historical investigations.

Research & Nationally Competitive Scholarships

Monday, May 18, 5pm-6pm

Location: Zoom

Event Link: https://tinyurl.com/3d87cms9

Learn how to apply for nationally competitive scholarships (including Goldwater, Truman, Rhodes, Marshall, Knight-Hennessy, and others). How does UCLA’s nomination/endorsement process work? How can you prepare a strong application? Join us for this session as part of Undergraduate Research Week!

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uclascholarshipcenter/

Exploring Careers in Research Pathways and Opportunities

Monday, May 18, 5pm-6:30pm

Location: Strathmore Building, Room 200

Event Registration Link: https://ucla.joinhandshake.com/edu/events/1918051

Are you considering a career in research but unsure where to start or wondering how much education you will need to enter this field? This engaging workshop will provide insights into the diverse pathways available in research across academia, industry, government, and nonprofit sectors. Participants will explore the skills, education, and experiences needed for a successful career in research.

LIVE Undergraduate Research & Creativity Showcase

Tuesday, May 19, 12:30-5pm

Join us on May 19 for the virtual Undergraduate Research and Creativity Showcase! Students will share 5-10 minute live presentations of their work followed by Q&A with visitors. Live presentations are organized into panels during three sessions: 12:30-1:50 p.m., 2:00-3:20 p.m., and 3:30-4:50 p.m. Recorded presentations will be available for viewing May 18-22. All presentations are hosted on this website under the “Showcase” tab. Learn more here.

Professional Writing Minor Capstone Seminar Colloquium

Tuesday, May 19, 2 – 5 pm, Wednesday, May 20, 9 am – 4 pm, and Thursday, May 21, 9 am – 4 pm

Location: 126A Kaplan Hall

Event Link: http://bit.ly/pwmcsc26

UCLA Writing Programs and the Department of English cordially invite you to the fifth annual Professional Writing Minor Capstone Seminar Colloquium. In a series of 45-minute panels across three days, students from the Professional Writing Minor will present an exciting array of capstone seminar projects. In AY25-26, fifty-six students will present on a rich diversity of topics that exemplify the range, depth, and individualized paths possible within the Professional Writing Minor. From astronaut hearts to queer horror, birthright citizenship to LA nightlife, students from diverse majors will share their original work in a range of genres including memoirs, websites, zines, research articles, and more. The colloquium is free and open to the public.

Refreshments will be served, and a short Q&A will follow each panel. Friends, family, faculty, staff, and students are welcome to attend. Join us to experience writing as an act of both communication and exploration as these emerging writers and soon-to-be graduates share their insights and discoveries.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uclawritingprograms/

Transfer Bruins Research Panels

Wednesday, May 20, 5-7pm

Join us for UCLA Undergraduate Research Week Transfer Research Panels on May 20th! UCLA CCCP is collaborating with URW to spotlight transfer student research. Register now for our panels featuring students in Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (HASS) and STEM fields. These panels are open to all current community college students, admitted transfers, and current UCLA students!

Musicology Senior Capstone Conference

Wednesday, May 20, 9am-2:45pm

Location: 1230 Schoenberg Music Building (Hybrid)

Event Link: https://tinyurl.com/3j5v23ze

Join us as thirteen Musicology majors present original research that runs the gamut from SoundCloud to Moldovan folk music ensembles, from LA record shops to sound healing, from Contemporary Worship Music to gaming!

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uclaalpert/

PULSAR’s 4th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium

Wednesday, May 20, 10am-2pm

Location: Boyer Hall – Room 130

Event Link: https://pulsarucla.weebly.com/symposium.html

Are you an undergraduate conducting life science research looking for presentation experience? PULSAR’s Undergraduate Research Symposium is a great opportunity to practice presenting your work to a live, in-person audience and connect with other undergraduate and graduate students in the research community.

The event will be followed by a catered lunch and networking session, where prizes will be awarded to the best talks!

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pulsarucla/

McNair Senior Presentations

Wednesday, May 20, 10am-5pm

The Senior McNair Scholars will present their research topics, methods, and findings on Wednesday, May 20, 2026, from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The presentations will take place in person at the Chicano Studies Research Center and will also be available via Zoom.

27th Annual Neuroscience Poster Day

Wednesday, May 20, 1pm-4pm

Location: Hershey Hall Salon

Event Link: https://forms.gle/d1GTEg3ccB78FN1f7

The Undergraduate Neuroscience IDP invites you to attend this year’s Neuroscience Poster Day. This event aims to highlight the hard work of Neuroscience students who have completed two quarters of independent research to satisfy their major capstone requirement. We will feature poster presentations and provide students with the opportunity to showcase their research projects.

Light refreshments will be available and poster awards will be announced at the end of the event.

Student Voices in Undergraduate Scholarship

Wednesday, May 20, 3 pm – 4 pm

Location: Virtual (pre-recorded or multimedia hosted on website, etc.)

Event Link: https://tinyurl.com/USJURWEventRegistration

What does it mean to move from doing research to becoming a scientific contributor? Join the UCLA Undergraduate Science Journal for an engaging virtual roundtable featuring student authors and editors as they reflect on why undergraduate research matters, how research experiences shaped their paths, and how publishing and revising their work helped them see themselves as real contributors to science.

The event will also feature highlighted undergraduate projects and pre-recorded interview segments with student researchers sharing their work and experiences, followed by a live Q&A. By bringing together research, reflection, and publication, this event showcases the power of undergraduate scholarship and highlights the importance of giving student research a platform beyond the classroom and the lab.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/usjucla/

Performance Unbound

Hosted by: Theater Department / Centre for Performance Studies

Wednesday, May 20, 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Hosted by the UCLA Center for Performance Studies, Performance Unbound is an undergraduate research showcase that invites students to explore performance as a dynamic, interdisciplinary field of inquiry. Bringing together work from across disciplines—including theater, literature, film, visual art, and beyond—this event highlights how performance operates not only as artistic expression but also as a method of knowledge production, a form of archive, and a site of political and social engagement.

Participants will present research that examines how performance shapes identity, constructs collective memory, and intervenes in questions of race, gender, migration, and colonial histories. These projects think across media, tracing how performance circulates between embodied practice and digital or visual forms, and how it reconfigures our understanding of storytelling and historical narrative. By foregrounding embodiment and lived experience, Performance Unbound seeks to create a space where students can critically engage with performance as both object and method. The showcase ultimately fosters dialogue on how performance exceeds disciplinary boundaries and opens new ways of thinking about culture, history, and social life.

Undergraduate presenters include Cathy Ding (Poetry & Embodiment: Who Gets to Be a Poet?), Joyce Zhu (Languages of Belonging: Heteroglossia, Culture, and Generational Divergence in Charity), Qianqian Ren (Performing the Border: Exceeding the American Border Narrative in Signs Preceding the End of the World), and Salem Hansen (Objectification of the Body: Reza Abdoh’s “Minamata” from a Flat Object-Oriented Ontology).

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Human Communities, Connection, and Conflict: Student Research Roundtable

Hosted by: Bedari Kindness Institute

Wednesday, May 20, 3:30 – 5:00 p.m.

We live in an increasingly connected yet fragmented world, and we can turn to research to help us navigate these fraught times. Are you interested in or currently involved in research that in any way, shape, or form explores communities, reimagines human connection, or examines conflict? Does your work engage with different groups, perspectives, or social phenomena?

Join the Bedari Kindness for an undergraduate student research round table, open to all undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, staff, and community members from all disciplines. This event will take place on May 20th from 3:30-5 PM.

The event will begin with roundtable discussions, where participants can share their research in small, interactive groups. It will then transition into a panel conversation, featuring selected undergraduate participants who will share their insights with a broader audience.

If you believe your research aligns with any of these themes, we would love to see you there! Please RSVP Please RSVP at https://tinyurl.com/humanconnection2026!

Community Engagement and Social Justice Day

Thursday, May 21, 1-5pm

Celebrate community-engaged and social justice research by UCLA undergraduates at the Community Engagement and Social Justice (CESJ) Research Day! 

CESJ Research Day is an in-person Undergraduate Research Week event consisting of Social Justice Conversation Circles from 1-5 p.m. 

Select students from across campus will participate in Social Justice Conversation Circles, which will encourage cross-disciplinary conversation on undergraduate research projects oriented toward social justice. 

This event is brought to you by the UCLA Undergraduate Research Center – Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (URC-HASS) and the UCLA Center for Community Engagement (CCE). 

Philosophy from the Margins: Symposium 2026

Thursday, May 21 – Friday, May 22

Location: TBD

The Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) chapter at UCLA invites submissions for a two-day student conference dedicated to exploring issues of diversity, justice, and marginalization in philosophy.

This conference aims to create a welcoming space for students to present philosophical work, engage in discussion, and build connections with peers working on related questions. We especially encourage submissions that challenge dominant philosophical frameworks or highlight perspectives historically marginalized within the discipline.

We welcome presentations on a wide range of topics, including but not limited to:

• Philosophy of race
• Feminist philosophy
• Queer philosophy
• Decolonial philosophy
• Disability philosophy
• Social and political philosophy
• Structural injustice
• Identity, recognition, and oppression
• Marginalization within the philosophical canon
• Interdisciplinary approaches are welcome.

Registration Link: https://forms.gle/XNLdYNEzRA3iwhn8A

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ucla_map/

Thursday, May 21, 3-5pm

Location: Terasaki Courtyard (behind Terasaki Life Sciences Building)

Event link: https://stemcell.ucla.edu/events/end-year-core-resource-event-2026

Please join us to celebrate the end of the academic year and learn more about the BSCRC’s core resources with tacos, drinks & more! Event will include:

• Posters presenting research that utilized BSCRC core resources.
• Staffs of each of the cores to answer questions.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uclastemcell/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Broad-Stem-Cell-Research-Center-at-UCLA/100090082840414/

Thursday, May 21, 2026

Each spring quarter, undergraduate researchers are invited to showcase their research to fellow students and faculty.

The attendance reservations for this event are now closed.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uclaibp

Undergraduate Research Week Awards Ceremony

Friday, May 22, 2 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. 

Join us for the virtual Undergraduate Research Week Awards Ceremony, where we will celebrate the close of Undergraduate Research Week and honor winners of the Dean’s Prize and Faculty Mentor Award! 

Join Us on Zoom 

https://ucla.in/4ufTNkS

Friday, May 22, 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. 

UCLA Psi Chi is hosting its 5th annual Psychology Research Conference on Friday, May 22, from 10 am to 3 pm in Kerckhoff Grand Salon.

Apply as a presenter or join as an attendee. Applications to present a poster at the conference and to be considered for awards and publishing opportunities in our research journal are due by Friday, April 17th, at 11:59 pm.

Join us for a day of research and refreshments, networking, and celebrating the excellence in undergraduate research conducted in psychology and related fields!

Friday, May 22, 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. 

The Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellows invite you to the URW MMUF Senior Symposium. The Fellows will be presenting their two year research projects in the fields of humanities, arts and social sciences. Senior Fellows include: Cris Avitia Camacho, Javier Murillo,  Nour Rayess, and Nat Escobedo.

Student Labor, Student Lives: The Hidden Layers of Student Worker Struggles

Friday, May 22, 1-3pm

Location: Public Affairs 1323 & Zoom

Event Link: https://irle.ucla.edu/event/2026-laborucla-research-showcase/

Rising tuition, high rents, and stagnant wages have made paid work a routine part of college life, especially in Los Angeles County. Many students now move between classrooms and job sites each day, while colleges and universities across the country still organize academic schedules, aid, and support services as if most students do not work. Drawing on 154 surveys and over 30 in-depth interviews conducted through the 2025 UCLA Labor Summer Research Program—a research cohort dedicated to community-engaged methods—this study examines how young people navigate the intersection of school and work.

This project includes recommendations on workers’ rights education, course accessibility, institutional and community communication, and the protection of need-based aid for student-workers. Findings from this research offer a clear framework for how colleges, policy makers, and the working-student community at large can respond to the realities student-workers face.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uclalaborsd/

Disability Healthcare Conference

Friday, May 22, 4-8pm

Location: Bruin Reception Room in Ackerman Student Union

Event Link: https://docs.google.com/forms

Join us for a half-day, student-led conference focused on disability healthcare and inclusive medical practice! This event will feature a keynote address from a physician specializing in disability health, a multidisciplinary panel with medical professionals and disability advocates, and student poster presentations highlighting disability-related research.

Attendees will also have time for networking, tabling by disability-focused campus organizations, and dinner. This conference aims to foster dialogue, learning, and collaboration around improving healthcare experiences for people with disabilities. Join us to build a community at UCLA focused on advancing disability healthcare equity!

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/spci.ucla/

2026 MCDB Student Research Poster Session

Tuesday, May 26, 2:30-4:30pm

Location: Hershey Hall, Room 158

The Department of Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology at UCLA cordially invites you to attend our 2026 Student Research Poster Session! Come by to celebrate and support senior undergraduate students in the MCDB major, as well as MCDB M.S. students, as they present the exciting research they have conducted during their time at UCLA. This is a great opportunity for students, staff, faculty, and alumni to come together as a community!

No RSVP is required and attendees do not need to stay for the entire event. Light refreshments will be served. Questions? Please email us at undergradmcdb@lifesci.ucla.edu.

Organized by: Institute of Neuro Innovation @ UCLA

Saturday, May 30, 2026, 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. 

The INI @ UCLA Research Showcase provides an opportunity for students to present their research project deliverables to INI Board Members (MDs, PhDs, etc.) and fellow students who are interested in learning about neuroscience. This event also provides the opportunity for collaboration with external organizations who have different interests so each group can learn from the other. There will also be refreshments and fun activities!!

Use this link to register to present at or attend the Showcase: https://forms.gle/SZPDxjQd1cHg9kjW8

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Sunday, May 31, 5-8pm. 

Event Link: https://bit.ly/medcoResearch

Experience a dynamic evening of innovation at the Med Coalition at UCLA Research Symposium. Hear from distinguished speakers, explore groundbreaking research, and connect with a community driven to advance medicine and global health. Student researchers from all levels are invited to present, compete, and be recognized for their work.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/medcoalition.ucla/

The 2026 Public Affairs Experiential Capstone Showcase features projects developed by Public Affairs major during their year-long community based internships. Capstone projects vary based on their internship site needs. Projects include research on responsible land stewardship, programs for asylum seekers, designing an evaluation framework, transportation coalition building, research on inclusionary zoning, creating legal assistance workshops, among many other.

📅 Friday, June 5th, 2026

🕑 2:00 – 4:00 PM

📍 MSB 1601 Courtyard

🔗 https://mimg.ucla.edu/education/undergraduate

Come explore the exciting world of microbiology, immunology, and molecular genetics through student-led research. Whether students completed their work through our lab-based Path 1 courses or Path 2 independent research in faculty labs, this is your chance to learn about the cutting-edge science happening right here on campus.

This is more than just a poster session — it’s an opportunity to:

• Connect with fellow students, faculty, and researchers
• Get inspired by a wide range of research topics -Support your peers and celebrate their hard work
• Enjoy some sweet treats and good company 🍪

All members of the MIMG community are welcome. We hope to see you there!

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ucla.mimg/

📅 Friday, June 5th, 2026

🕑 2-6pm (might change a bit)

📍 Hershey Hall 158

🔗 https://tinyurl.com/EEBResearchDay1

We are happy to announce our 3rd Annual Research Day Celebration! We invite our UCLA community to join us as we celebrate the amazing work our undergraduate student, graduate student, postdoctoral scholars, and faculty are working on. This event is an opportunity for members of the EEB community to share the research they have been conducting in the past year. Events of the day will include a Judged Poster Session: for Undergraduate and Graduate Students, Lightning Talks from Undergraduate, Graduate, Post-Doctoral Fellows, and Faculty, an Awards Ceremony which will include winners from the Poster Session, and a Reception.

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