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 Also, please let us know if a link is outdated.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

• American Counseling Association
• The Couples Conference
• The Evolution of Psychotherapy

Criminology/Sociology

• Pacific Sociological Association (PSA)
• Western Society of Criminology (WSC)

English

• ACACIA Graduate Student Conference at CSUF

European Studies

• Oral History Association (OHA)
• Southwest Oral History Association (SOHA)

Geography

• California Geographical Society (CGS)

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

• Bataan Memorial Death March 
• George C. Marshall (GCM) Leadership and Awards Seminar

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

• Western Institute of Nursing (WIN) conference

Psychology

• Association for Psychological Science (APS)
• UCLA Psychology Undergraduate Research Conference