UNDERGRADUATE SYMPOSIUM

Registration period:

February 1 – April 5

Poster upload deadline:

April 17, 2020

Undergraduate Symposium Virtual Showcase dates:

April 20-24, 2020

Reminder: You must present your poster or you will receive a score of zero on oral quality which will take you out of contention for receiving a prize.

Volunteering is easy! Just go to the following URL and fill in the requested information. You will receive an email confirmation for your records with your preferences listed:

Undergraduate Symposium Judge Registration

Please register to be acknowledged in the program.

After the abstracts are in, you will receive judging guidelines, logistics, and the titles of your assigned posters.

Please contact ug-research@nau.edu if you have questions.

Registration period: February 1 – April 5

Applications from undergraduate students who wish to share their work as posters, oral presentations, exhibits, and performances should be submitted online during the registration period.

Registration information can be found on the NAU Undergraduate Symposium registration page.

Note:

• Only the primary author or presenter should register
• All co-authors are to be listed by the primary author on the form
• CEFNS students may be the lead (primary) on only one poster

Poster creation

It is the responsibility of participating students to create posters for the poster sessions. For consistency and convenience, we recommend that you download, and take advantage of, the poster templates provided below. There is a landscape version and a portrait version with useful tips to help you quickly create an attractive poster, but we encourage you to be creative as well.

NOTE: There is one CEFNS 2020 poster judging rubric this year. This is how your poster will be judged.  Please review:  CEFNS Rubric

Poster templates are available here

Basic poster formatting and construction guidelines:

• CEFNS posters should be no larger than 36″ x 46″ to fit on the display board
• Posters should be created in PowerPoint format; trying to blow up an 8.5 x 11 does NOT work well
• The use of dark (especially black) solid color backgrounds is strongly discouraged…and will incur additional charges
• Posters must be readable from at least four feet away
• The presentation title must be at least two inches high
• Beneath the title, the name(s) of the student author(s), faculty sponsor, and department/school must be at least one inch high
• All source(s) of your funding should be acknowledged on the poster
• Generally more graphics/less text is preferable
• Large format NAU logos are available

Poster presentations:

All poster presentations will be reviewed by 2-3 judges. Judging will occur within each CEFNS department presented at the University Symposium:

Fabulous prizes will be awarded to winners in each category. Please keep in mind that your posters may be judged by people outside your area of expertise. Therefore, poster presentations should be structured for a lay-audience. As a guideline to what the judges are looking for, the judging templates for each of the three categories are available below:

• CEFNS Rubric

1st Place

Madison Martz
Mentors: Carina Hall, Dr. David Wagner
Department of Biological Sciences
“The First Identification of Burkholderia thailandensis From the Environment in the Western Hemisphere”

2nd Place

Heidi Shepard, Molly Carney, Sydney Shaw, Miguel Sotelo, Carley Watkins
Mentor: Dr. Taylor Joyal
School of Earth & Sustainability
“Food Connectivity Mapping: A Way to Build Equity and Diversity in Flagstaff, Arizona’s Food System”

3rd Place

Nicole Bratsch
Mentors: Carina Hall, Dr. David Wagner
Department of Biological Sciences
“Pathogenic Leptospira spp. Detected in Soil, but Not Water, in Puerto Rico During Normal Weather Conditions”

2019 Undergraduate Symposium Program Booklet