04/22/2025
The best of SUNY Cortland’s student academic projects will be highlighted when the annual Transformations: A Student Research and Creativity Conference returns this month.
Each year, more than 100 students showcase their multidisciplinary work, including dozens of students presenting talks with a faculty mentor, and dozens more presenting their posters.
Created in 1997 as Scholars’ Day, the conference lets students share the results of their hard work throughout the school year on an array of topics. It was renamed Transformations in 2012 to emphasize how research transforms the studied subjects, the students’ lives and the world at large.
This year's Transformations conference kicks off Thursday, May 1.
Transformations begins with the annual keynote address at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 1, in Sperry Center Hobson Lecture Hall (Room 104). The speaker will be Teagan Bradway, a SUNY Cortland associate professor of English and recipient of the 2025 Dr. Peter DiNardo ’68 and Judith Waring Outstanding Achievement in Research Award.
It continues the next day, Friday, May 2, with student presentations from 10:20 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Bowers Hall.
More information is available on the Transformations website.
Each year the university sends out a campuswide call for presentations and uses faculty members serving as mentors to encourage students to participate. All students given a summer fellowship from the Undergraduate Research Council are expected to contribute.
For questions about Transformations, please contact the Arts and Sciences Dean’s Office at 607-753-4312 or email SchoolOf.ArtsandSciences@cortland.edu.