CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Poster Session Criteria:

What: Fifty 4’ x 6’ posters (two per cork poster board) highlighting graduate research from the seventeen master’s programs carried out during the 2007 calendar year
When: Thursday, 10 January 2008, 4:00 – 6:00 pm (student presentation of research); posters can be set up between 8:00 a.m. and 2:30 pm
Where: Stern Student Center Ballroom
Why: Graduate program research is one of the hidden “gems in the crown” of the College of Charleston. The poster session will provide an introduction to the impressive research activities currently taking place in our graduate programs. The project abstracts would also recognize the ongoing contributions of graduate students, faculty, and alumni to the betterment of our local, state, and global communities.

Student should submit electronically an application including names of poster author(s), poster presenter(s), and supervising faculty; title of project; and project abstract to graduate program director by December 3.
Graduate program directors will coordinate the selection of up to five projects and forward these to Graduate School by December 10.
Ad hoc committee on Graduate Research and Funding will select the 50 posters to be displayed, trying to ensure representation from a wide range of programs and projects by December 14.
Graduate School will notify students (and their supervising faculty) whose 50 posters have been selected by December 17.
Deans will select the best entry from each School and the best overall poster on January 10.
Poster winners will be announced and prizes awarded by 6:30 pm on January 10.

Electronic copies of the posters will be posted on the Graduate Research and Creative Activities website, maintained by the Graduate School and linked to program websites.
Photos of the School and overall winners will be also posted on the site.
A booklet will be produced to use for publicity and recruitment containing
- poster abstracts and photos of session participants
- synopses of ongoing research activities in each program
- summary of jobs, careers, local positions held by alumni and their contributions to the community