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Student Poster Registration opens
Friday, April 13 - Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Symposium Overview and Poster Prep Session
Tuesday, May 8, 6 - 7:00 PM
Starr Instructional Center 274*
Review of symposium details and instructions on how to create posters.
* Follow-up hands-on poster prep help will be available to students on an individual basis
* The Starr Instructional Center is on the 2nd level of Berry inside the Jones Media Center. It contains 20 iMacs running Macintosh OSX (10.4). Students who prefer to work on a PC should bring a laptop to the session. (WISP interns may charge 1 hour of time on their timesheets for this session.)
2012 Drop-in hours for poster prep help available as follow:
Laura Barrett, Director of Education and Outreach, Library
Thursday, May 10, 9:30 - 11:30 AM & Thursday, May 17, 3-4:30 PM
Location: DCAL at the east end of Baker Main Hall opposite stairway near the Theodore Geisel room
Margaret Funnell, Assistant Dean, Office of Undergraduate Research
Monday, May 14, 1-3 PM & Tuesday, May 15, 1-3 PM
Location: Room 204 Parker House
Shirley Zhao, Physical Sciences Librarian
Friday, May 18, 10 AM - 12noon & Monday, May 21 2-4 PM
Location: Kresge Library
Setting up posters: 10 am - 2 pm, Life Sciences Center
Check in at the first floor registration table for space number and where to drop off poster
Keynote address: 4 - 5 pm, Oopik Auditorium (Room 100 LSC)
Keynote Speaker: Mary Lou Guerinot, Ph.D.
Undergraduate research poster session: 5 - 7 pm
First floor gallery, Classrooms 105, 200, and 201
Students stand by their posters and talk with symposium attendees
Poster removal: 7 - 8 pm, Life Sciences Center
Please remove your poster during this time period. There is no provision for poster storage
Any undergraduate (any class year) with science research experience over the past year is invited to create a poster and participate in the symposium. Most students will present research-in-progress, in contrast to a completed project (senior thesis students are the exception).
Poster presentations are a common feature of many scientific meetings. Preparing a scientific poster will provide you with an opportunity to communicate your research in this format and add to your skill set, particularly if you intend to continue on in the sciences. Be sure to add this experience to your resume.
Undergraduate researchers need to register with their poster title and other required information which will be printed in a symposium brochure.
Yes, you are encouraged to participate whether you are part of an organized program or arranged your own research experience.
Yes, the symposium is an opportunity to showcase the wide variety of research and the breadth of student engagement with science research at Dartmouth.
Yes, you are eligible and encouraged to prepare a poster. Please involve your research advisor in your decision and seek their advice and counsel in preparing your poster.
if you received funding through WISP or the Office of Undergraduate Advising & Research (Dean of Faculty office) for the research you will be presenting at the symposium, there will be NO COST to you for printing your poster.
