The 18th Annual Natural and Mathematical Sciences Research Symposium will be held on Saturday, March 28, 2026. This is an excellent opportunity to present your research results to faculty and friends. We encourage all students in the departments of Biological, Chemical, and Mathematical Sciences (which comprise CBU's Division of Natural and Mathematical Sciences) who have taken part in a research experience to participate. If you would like to be part of this great event, please submit your abstract by Friday February 20, 2026.  Please note that submissions should be made by a sponsoring NMS faculty member only. Please submit abstracts for an Oral Presentation or Poster Presentation. Abstracts should be less than 200 words. Oral presentations accepted will be expected to be approximately 8 minutes with an additional 2 minute period for questions and answers. Please have all presenter names (as they will appear in the program) and emails addresses available before starting your submission.

Students enrolled in a US high school for the 25-26 school year are eligible to enter. Submissions are accepted in poetry and prose (fiction or creative nonfiction).

PROSE (Including Flash Fiction, Short Stories, Scripts, Memoirs, Autobiographies, Creative Essays): Multiple pieces may be submitted up to 5,000 words total (maximum).
POETRY: Up to three (3) pieces may be submitted.

 Submissions can contain entries for multiple categories, but please submit each category as an individual file.

 

• For example, if you would like to submit 3 poems and 2 short stories:

1. Save all your poems in one Word/Rtf File with no personal information in the file. Use a page break between pieces.
2. Save all your stories in one Word/Rtf File with no personal information in the file. Use a page break between pieces.
3. Then submit the 2 files together.

Prep all your files before submitting so you can submit them all at once and pay only one submission fee.
No identifying personal information should be on the submission file--only the title and the work itself should be included in the Word/rtf document.


First prize in each category: $100
Second prize in each category: $50


Judges' decisions are final.
No refunds for submissions will be granted. (If you experience a technical issue, etc., let us know.)