2025 Annual Research Day
The School of Graduate Studies will hold the centerwide Annual Research Day on Wednesday, March 19th, 2025.
The day will consist of poster sessions, a platform session for graduate students and the Annual Research Day Dinner.
The 2025 annual Graduate Day lecture, entitled "From a demand-based to a supply-limited view of brain development, function and evolution." will be held on March 19th at 4pm in the Alumni Auditorium. The speaker will be Suzana Herculano-Houzel, biologist, neuroscientist, researcher, writer, columnist at brazilian newspaper Folha de São Paulo and Associate Professor in the Departments of Psychology and Biological Sciences at Vanderbilt University. She is also the first female editor-in-chief of The Journal of Comparative Neurology.
Participation in Annual Research is mandatory for all students in the School of Graduate Studies in SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University past their second year. Graduate students in year 1 or 2 are encouraged to participate.
Only students in the School of Graduate Studies are eligible to compete for awards or present at the platform session, but other entities on the campus may use the Research Day mechanisms present their research findings, and to score and award prizes to their students or employees at the poster sessions.
Time | Event | Area |
9:30am – 11:25am | Poster session A | PHAB A, B, C & D |
11:30am – 1:25pm | Poster session B | PHAB A, B, C & D |
10:00am – 12:30pm concurrent with Poster Sessions A/B | Graduate Student Oral Platform Presentations | PHAB 2C |
2:00pm – 3:55pm | Graduate School Poster Session | PHAB A, B, C & D |
4:00pm – 5:30pm | Annual Graduate Day Lecture | Alumni Auditorium, EB |
6:00 pm | Annual Research Day Dinner Reservation Form |
Taci’s Beyti Turkish Restaurant, 1953 Coney Island Avenue. |
To add the complete ARD 2025 agenda to your calendar , click link and open downloaded .ics file.
We look forward to all presentations of Downstate's science.
Poster Printing at Downstate
If you opt to print your poster in-house with the SUNY Downstate Office of New Media Services for the 2025 Annual Research Day, you will need to submit your poster by 5:00pm EST on March 5th 2025. Unfortunately, late submissions cannot be accommodated.
- submit your poster for printing via the poster submission form
- Poster templates are available. The standard size of 48" x 36" is preferred for ease of printing, but any of the templates is fine
- For more information, see the general poster info webpage