41st CSUSB Student Research Competition
The 41st Annual CSUSB Student Research Competition is scheduled to take place on Friday, February 12th, 2027, inside the College of Education (COE). This competition offers CSUSB students a platform to enhance their presentation and communication skills while highlighting their scholarly and creative accomplishments.
Participants present their research findings to a panel of judges, with the top performers earning the chance to advance to the statewide California State University (CSU) Research Competition hosted at California State University, San Marcos on April 15-17, 2027. There, they will compete against other exceptional scholars within the CSU system. Successful participants in the CSU Student Research Competition have the opportunity to win accolades, with $500 awarded for first place and $250 for second place within their respective sessions.
What is the CSU Competition?
The California State University Student Research Competition is an annual event that brings together scholars from the 23 campuses of our California State University system. The competition showcases undergraduate and graduate research, scholarship, and creative works by recognizing outstanding student accomplishments. across the 23 campuses.
Current undergraduate students, graduate students, and recent alumni from all academic disciplines can participate. Each year, over 200 students from the 23 CSU campuses submit written papers and make oral presentations before juries of professional experts from major corporations, foundations, public agencies, and universities in California.
Each CSU campus appoints a campus coordinator and develops its own procedures for selecting student delegates to the system-wide competition. Only those students endorsed by the campus coordinator can enter the system-wide competition.
Submit your Abstract Today!
Submission Guidelines:
- Open to undergraduate and graduate students from all disciplines.
- Submit a 250-300 word abstract summarizing your research or
project.
Submit here
Abstract Submission Opens: November 4th, 2026
Application Deadline: January 8th, 2027
If you have any questions about the application process, please contact our office at osr@csusb.edu.
41st Annual CSUSB Student Research Competition Session Winners
The Office of Student Research and Innovation is pleased to announce the session winners of the 41st Annual CSUSB Student Research Competition. These names will be announced as soon as the competition is over. We would like to extend our gratitude for all those who entered this competition. Deliberations for the session winners and advancing teams were incredibly difficult with all the wonderful and fascinating presentation and captivating research our students are conducting on our campus.
We would also like to extend a heartfelt thank you to the jurors who took time out of their busy schedule and made this competition possible with this unprecedented number of competitors for the Student Research Competition.
Thank you for participating in this year’s competition and championing CSUSB’s excellence and achievements in research and innovation.
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Teams Advancing to the 41st Annual CSU Student Research Competition at California State University, San Marcos
The Office of Student Research and Innovation is pleased to announce and congratulate the ten teams chosen to represent CSUSB at the statewide competition at California State University, San Marcos on April 15-17, 2027! These names will be announced as soon as the competition is over.
Cassandra Fielding and Katie LaFave
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Jeremy Almazan
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Livia J Padron Briceno
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Somya Shubhra Pal
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Rachel Kanter
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Kelley Kelley and Emily Wooten
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Tara O'Neill De Lafosse, Christopher Poche, Omar Flores, Kevin Evans and Jonathan Aguirre
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Lisandro Esquivel-Solis, Nathanael Hernandez and Daniel Moran
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Yahtziri Martinez and Daniela Torres
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Gabriela Rojas-Norris
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