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Award Winners
Award Criteria
The Auburn Research: Student Symposium is envisioned as an opportunity to share student research and creative scholarship with a broad audience consisting of faculty, staff, graduate and undergraduate students, and the public. We request that students consider the general nature of their audience in crafting their poster presentations and research summaries for the symposium proceedings.
Award Categories
Multiple awards (university-wide and college specific) will be made in the categories listed below:
- STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics)
- Poster Presentations
- Oral Presentations
- Social Science/Creative Scholarship in Design, Arts and Humanities
- Poster Presentations
- Oral Presentations
University-Wide Awards
- Graduate Students
- First place awards for all categories: $500
- Second place awards: $250
- Third place awards: $100
- Undergraduate Students
- First place awards for all categories: $125
- Second place awards: $75
- Third place awards: $50
College Specific Awards
- Top Poster and Oral Presentation for each college
- Graduate Student Award: $100
- Undergraduate Student Award: $50
