Poster Information and Guidelines

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All poster presenters should have been contacted about their sessions, but please check lists below:

Poster Session #1: Job Seekers (6:30-8 pm, Tuesday, October 15, 2013), Riverview Ballroom

The poster display boards will go up in the Riverview Ballroom on Tuesday afternoon by 3:30 pm and remain there until 7:30 pm on Wednesday. Please check the poster list, signs and hang your poster in your assigned spot.

Note: Post-docs who participate in the job-seekers session on Tuesday will need to remove their posters at the end of session. Graduate students can keep their posters up for the next day session

Please be reminded that all participants in this session should bring a resume or CV and business cards.

Poster Session #2: Graduate Student Poster Competition (4:30-7 pm, Wednesday, October 16, 2013), Riverview Ballroom

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Graduate Students:Please have your posters in place before the session begins at 4:30 pm.

Please check the poster list, signs and hang your poster in your assigned spot.

Poster Session #3: Poster Session for Others (8:30-10 am, Thursday, October 17) Kress Building

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Post-docs in the Thursday session (8:30-10 am) will have to put up their posters at 7:30 am in the Kress Building.

Please check the poster list, signs and hang your poster in your assigned spot.

Note that times for sessions and for set-up may change slightly. Posters should be no larger than 3.5' x 3.5' so that they will fit on the display boards. Push pins will be provided for attaching posters to the display boards.Please plan to be at your posters during the entire poster session.

Graduate Student Poster Competition:
Professionals representing a breadth of technical and scientific knowledge & expertise will judge the competition.The presentation should provide enough background and contextual information to relay the message to non-experts while also highlighting significant findings of their research.Presenters are required to summarize their research and findings to judges in less than five minutes.

Student Poster Judging Criteria:

Judging will be based on the student’s presentation of their research and their understanding of its relevance to (a) the goals and mandates of the Superfund Research Program and (b) EPA/ATSDR/states.
Because of the tremendous diversity of the research presented in the posters, judges will not attempt to determine who is “doing the best science”.

Judges will review the posters with the following criteria in mind:

1. Student presentation/discussion, i.e., does the student demonstrate:

In-depth knowledge of topic?
Understanding of the relevance of the research to the SRP mandates/goals and the EPA / ATSDR / states?
Ability to communicate the science clearly and succinctly (in less than 5 minutes)?

2. Overall appearance of poster and supporting graphics (tables, charts, photos, etc.):

Do they support the hypothesis/data?
Do they add clarity to the overall presentation?

3. Introduction/Methods/Results:

Is the importance/relevance of the research clearly and convincingly presented?
Is the research question and/or hypothesis clearly stated?
Are the methods and results sections presented logically in a style that is understandable to someone "outside the field"?

4. Conclusions:

Do the conclusions address the research question/hypothesis?
Do they follow logically from the data?
Are they presented logically in a style that is understandable to someone "outside the field"?