CALL FOR POSTER SESSION PROPOSALS

The FIU| CARTA School of Communication and the FIU-UT1C Colloquium Planning committee invite FIU undergraduate and graduate students as well faculty members to submit abstracts relating to any aspect of mental health among college-aged students for presentation at a poster session at the FirstFIU-UT1C Colloquium: Mental Health on College Campuses Poster Session. The session will be held on October 22, 2019 from 3:30 to 5:00 PM to showcase research, interventions, or awareness campaigns conducted by FIU students, faculty, and staff.

We strongly encourage submissions from:

  • Current or former graduate students working on their master’s project to report findings and strategies (if applicable)
  • Groups of students from graduate or undergraduate courses to present findings or research proposals
  • Staff or volunteers of on-campus or off-campus programs related to mental health
  • Student groups who have worked on mental health awareness or prevention campaigns
  • Faculty and student partnerships
  • Partnerships among two or more faculty or staff members

Note to undergraduate students: Presented posters may be included in your résumé under “Research Presentations.”

Research that is in progress and not yet completed is welcome.

Acceptance is based on a 1-page abstract submitted for consideration. Upon acceptance, presenters will be provided specific instructions to prepare the poster presentation.

All abstracts will be accepted through midnight on Thursday August 15, 2019. Abstracts submitted earlier will receive earlier notification. Abstracts should be double-spaced and no more than 250 words in a Word document. Submissions must be sent by email with author(s), affiliation(s), and contact information to Dr. Maria Elena Villar mevillar@fiu.edu.

General Instructions for Submitting Abstracts:

  • The abstracts must include the author(s), school/department affiliation(s), title(s), and contact information.
  • Authors of submitted abstracts (at least one author if there are multiple authors) must agree to attend and present accepted abstracts in a poster session format at the FirstFIU-UT1C Colloquium: Mental Health on College Campuses Poster Session, to be held on the FIU Modesto Maidique Campus PCA 330 on Tuesday, October 22, 2019 from 3:30 to 5:00 PM.

For additional information or inquiries regarding the abstract submissions, please contact Dr. Maria Elena Villar by phone at 305-348-7644 or email at mevillar@fiu.edu.

Poster Submission Form

What is a Research Poster Session?

Posters are an alternative method to oral presentations for disseminating

and evaluating research. Done effectively, posters can provide a researcher with much more feedback than s/he would receive during a traditional oral presentation. Poster sessions are a visual and concise method of presenting one’s work.  The audience circulates among the posters, stopping to discuss papers of particular interest to them.

As participants look over your presentation, and you will have the opportunity to engage in a much more detailed discussion of your research, the methodology and your findings than you might otherwise in a traditional format. While you may not make a formal delivery of your paper, you will be able to engage in a more informal and more in depth discussion of your work.

Authors present their research using a visual or digital medium with key excerpts from the papers or research reports displayed on a bulletin board or through audio-visual equipment.  Poster presentations should incorporate illustrative materials such as tables, graphs, and large-print text, and materials should be clearly readable from a distance of three feet.

General Guidelines for Poster Presentations

Points to consider when putting your poster together:

  • Divide the contents of your poster into appropriate sections. For instance — title of paper, author, institutional affiliation; abstract; methodology; data; results; conclusions.
  • Use larger lettering for the poster’s title, author and institutional affiliation. Make the lettering of the title is at least one inch high.
  • Avoid fonts that are script or difficult to read.
  • If hand lettering is required, use a dark colored felt-tip pen (e.g.Sharpie).
  • Be concise with your written material. Save elaborative points for discussion/interaction with viewers.  For conclusions, focus on a central finding that lends itself to informal discussion.
  • Use graphs, charts and/or tables (color if possible) to show results. Graphics help make your poster interesting.
  • A neutral poster or matte board is more amenable to the eye than a bright colored background. A splash of color here and there, perhaps highlighting central finding(s) or provocative results, will make your poster “stand out” from the crowd.
  • The size of your printed materials (which maybe multiple 8.5”X11” panels or a single large poster print-out if accessible to you)

Things to avoid:

  • DO NOT mount the text of your paper or research report as the poster. You may have copies of your paper at your table for visitors to look at.
  • DO NOT use less than 20 font for any text you mount. Most viewers will be at least three feet away from your poster.
  • DO NOT be absent from your scheduled poster time! The whole idea of a poster session is to create additional opportunities for you to interact with other interested scholars.

Useful links:

This is a great blog post about student posters:

 http://colinpurrington.com/tips/academic/posterdesign

 Here are some poster guidelines:

 http://isanet.ccit.arizona.edu/portland/posterguide.html

 http://www.ncsu.edu/project/posters/NewSite/index.html

Note: Much of this information was adapted from http://isanet.ccit.arizona.edu/portland/posterguide.html