51st Annual Albert L. Tester Memorial Symposium

April 7-9, 2027

The 51st Annual Albert L. Tester Memorial Symposium will be held April 7-9, 2027.

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Virtual Event

Invited Speakers

Workshops & Special Events

Commitment to a Safe, Inclusive, and Accessible Event 

The 51st Annual Albert L. Tester Memorial Symposium is committed to organizing and hosting a safe, inclusive, and accessible research symposium on the UH Manoa Campus. It is our goal that every person who participates in the symposium and related events feels supported and free from any harassment or discrimination. To that end, everyone who participates in the Tester Symposium, in person and virtually, is expected to conform to the Code of Conduct included below. The link below also has instructions for reporting an incident if needed. 

Additionally, we are committed to making this event as accessible as possible. The symposium will be held in-person on the first floor of the  Information Technology Center, which is wheelchair/scooter accessible with accessible restrooms, and virtually via Zoom.

Code of Conduct

Registered attendees: You are subjected to our Code of Conduct if you are participating in person or in zoom. Read our Code of Conduct before joining the symposium.

Want to submit a concern pertaining to the Code of Conduct?  

You can submit a concern to the School of Life Sciences using this reporting form.

Other important resources:

Campus Department of Public Safety:  (808) 956-9293

Title IX and the Office of Institutional Equity (OIE): https://www.hawaii.edu/titleix/ 

To report a sex discrimination or gender-based violence related incidence: https://report.system.hawaii.edu/student

History of Tester Memorial Symposium

The Albert L. Tester Memorial Symposium is held in honor of Professor Albert Tester who, at the time of his death in 1974, was Senior Professor of Zoology at the University of Hawaii. The faculty and students of the Department of Zoology proposed an annual symposium of student research papers as a means of honoring and continuing Dr. Tester’s lively encouragement of student research in a broad range of fields within biology. Today the Tester Memorial Symposium welcomes research from any scientific field.

Oral presentations and posters reporting original research on any aspect of science are solicited from students at the University to be presented at the Symposium each spring semester. Income from contributions to the Albert L. Tester Memorial Fund of the University of Hawaii Foundation is used to provide prizes for the three papers (15-minute talks), judged on quality, originality, and importance of research reported, as well as the quality of the public presentation. Judges include faculty members and the previous year’s student award winners. In addition, distinguished scholars are invited to participate in the Symposium and to present keynote addresses.

Past events here.