Final Project and Poster Session (30%)
Important Dates
- Feb 23th: Form groups (2 - 4 people).
- April 5th: One-page write up due. (5%)
- 12pt font, 1.5 spaced, 1 page.
- What is your research question?
- Describe your data.
- What method will you use?
- April 12th: First draft of poster due. (10%)
- April 18th: Final draft of poster due.
- April 23th: Poster session (usual lecture time). (15%)
Poster Resource:
- How to prepare a scientific poster?
- A sample template: You don't have to use this one!
- More resources on poster: If you click on "previous years", you will be able to look at lots of posters by Gov PhD students. Gov 51 final project posters should be a simplified version of those.
- We'd like to see the following info from your poster:
- Title and research question
- Abstract: Tell us briefly about your design and results
- Introduction: A bit more about your data and method of choice.
- Results: Graphs or tables
- Discussion: What is your conclusion? What is your assumption? What are the limitations?