SUNY Undergraduate Research Conference welcomes largest Buffalo State cohort to date

The annual SUNY Undergraduate Research Conference, held on April 21 at SUNY Fredonia, accepted the largest cohort of Buffalo State student presenters since the systemwide event’s inception in 2015.

Hosted by a different SUNY campus each spring, the  2026 iteration of this multidisciplinary event displayed research and creativity projects from 11 BSU departments, representing 44 students under the guidance of 14 faculty mentors. Presentations ranged from a research talk advocating conservation of Seneca-Iroquois natural artifacts (mentored by the Great Lakes Center’s Olga Novikova) to the legendary “Sarbani Squad” (pictured)—an advanced CIS-Computer Information Systems cohort (mentored by Sarbani Banerjee) who have been SURC stalwarts for over a decade.

Photo by Carolyn Guzski.