Student-Friendly Conferences
The following conferences encourage undergraduate and graduate student participation. If you have questions about a particular conference, please contact the organization directly. Also, please let us know if a link is outdated.
American Studies
- American Historical Association (AHA)
- California American Studies Association
- Popular Culture Association (PCA)
- Western Association of Women Historians (WAWH)
- Western Literature Association (WLA)
Chicana and Chicano Studies
- Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (MALCS): Women Active in Letters and Social Change
- National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS)
Child and Adolescent Studies
- American Educational Research Association (AERA)
- American Psychological Association (APA)
- California Association for the Education of Young Children (CAAEYC)
- National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)
- Occasional Temperament Conference
- Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD)
- Society for Research on Adolescence (SRA)
- Western Psychological Association
Communications
- Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC)
- Association for Practical and Professional Ethics (APPE)
- Broadcast Education Association (BEA)
- Central States Communication Association (CSCA)
- Eastern Communication Association (ECA)
- Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities
- International Conference on Communication and Mass Media
- International Communication Association (ICA)
- International Academy of Business Disciplines (IABD)
- National Communication Association (NCA)
- Southern States Communication Association (SSCA)
- Western States Communication Association (WSCA)
- World Journalism Education Conference (WJEC)
Counseling
Criminology/Sociology
English
European Studies
Geography
Health Science
- American College Health Association (ACHA)
- American Psychological Association (APA)
- American Public Health Association (APHA)
- Childhood Obesity Conference (may be better suited for graduate students)
- Safety Professional Development Conference
- Society for Prevention Research (SPR)
- Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE)
- Southern California Joint Technical Symposium
- Southern California Public Health Association (SCPHA)
- Southwest Chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine (SWACSM)
Military Science
Natural Science and Mathematics
- American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
- American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
- American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)
- American Chemical Society (ACS) National Meeting and Exposition
- American Fisheries Society (AFS) Annual Meeting
- American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting
- American Physical Society (APS) Annual Meeting
- American Physiological Society (APS)
- American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) Annual Meeting
- American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) Annual Meeting
- American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (ASIH)
- American Society for Microbiology (ASM)
- American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB)
- AMS-MAA-SIAM: Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM)
- Animal Behavior Society (ABS) Annual Conference
- McNair Research Conference Opportunities (for McNair Scholars only)
- California Mathematics Council (CMC) – South Annual Conference
- Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) Conferences
- CSU Program for Education and Research in Biotechnology (CSUPERB)
- CSU Student Research Competition
- Desert Symposium
- European Geophysical Union (EGU)
- Geological Society of America Annual Conference (GSA)
- Geological Society of America - Cordilleran Section
- National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR)
- National Ground Water Association (NGWA)
- Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association (KSEA)
- Pacific Seabird Group (PSG) Annual Meeting
- Psychology of Mathematics Education North American Chapter (PMENA)
- Pacific Section - Society for Sedimentary Geology (PS-SEPM) Annual Joint Conference
- Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS)
- Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) Annual Meeting
- Microanalysis Society (MAS) Annual Meeting
- Society for Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP)
- Southern California Conference for Undergraduate Research (SCCUR)
- Southern California Academy of Sciences (SCAS) Annual Meeting
- Southern California Branch of the American Society for Microbiology (SCASM) Annual Meeting
- Southern California Society for Microscopy and Microanalysis (SCSMM)
- Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) Annual Meeting
- The American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET)
- The Tuna Conference
- West Coast Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference (WCBSUR)
- Western Society of Naturalists Annual Meeting
Nursing
Psychology