Stupka Symposium 2026

A Project by Stupka Symposium

Support the Stupka Undergraduate Research Symposium!

Your generous support helps us make a meaningful difference in being able to support our symposium each year for our students, alumni, faculty, and visitors to get together and share their experiences and scientific endeavors. Every donation enables us to bring notable keynote speakers, provide complementary meals for all attendees, and keep this symposium entirely free for years to come.

Why Your Donation Matters

Direct Impact on the Symposium: Your donation allows us to expand the Stupka Symposium each year, allowing for more alumni and student events to take place. It also helps us to fly out and provide hotels for our keynote speakers every year, allowing them to join us at these events and share their experiences and research endeavors without any worries.
Keeping our Symposium Free: Each year we aim to keep the Stupka Symposium free for all who attend, with meals included! By doing this, we hope to take away any costly worries for our attendees, which allows each person to attend for as long as they are able to join us on this special day.
Future Growth of the Symposium: We want each year to be bigger and better! Your support will allow us to continue bringing in keynote speakers each year, as well as allowing for even more, and greater events! Stay tuned as we continue to plan this year’s symposium!

This Year’s Symposium

The 20^th annual Stupka Symposium is the largest one yet. We are supporting more speakers, more events, and more research than ever before! Your donation will go a long way to make these operations possible.

Keep watch for our donation page as we send out a few updates along the way!

Without your continued support, we wouldn’t be able to run this event. Thank you for donating to the Stupka Symposium and we hope to see you April 9and 10 in the Molecular Biology Building and great ISU Campus for this fantastic Symposium!

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This donation could cover two dozen bagels for the symposium breakfast!

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This donation could cover the cost of printing a poster for a student presenter!

$100

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This donation could cover lunches for eight student attendees!

$250

Cell

This donation could cover lodging costs for one of our keynote speakers!

$500

Organism

This donation could cover round-trip travel costs for one of our keynote speakers.

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