2021 Virtual Falk Student Research Celebration

Falk students are invited to submit posters of completed or in-progress empirical, exploratory, policy analytic or hypothesis-driven research projects using qualitative, quantitative, or mixed methods for display, judging, and awards in the 2021 Falk Student Research Celebration May 4 – 7. The multi-day event will highlight Falk students’ research collaborations and their dedication to advancing research knowledge.

Research Celebration LOI (entry form) is due March 18. Poster and presentation (3-5-minute audio or video) submissions are due April 27. Posters distributed (via email) to the Falk Community on May 4, with judging and awards taking place May 5.

The Falk College Research Center promotes a robust, collaborative research community in which students play an active role. At Falk, graduate and undergraduate students have the opportunity to work directly with faculty to collect data, analyze findings and draw conclusions on relevant topics surrounding public health, food studies, nutrition, sport management, human development and family science, social work, marriage and family therapy, and exercise science.

How to participate:

To enter the poster competition, submit a Letter of Intent (LOI) via SU’s application portal InfoReady, click on the 2021 Falk Student Research Celebration LOI, no later than March 18, 2021.

Your electronic poster along with a 3-5-minute presentation link (audio or video) is due on Tuesday April 27th by 3pm. Both components are required for the competition. Student participants must submit their posters with the presentation link on their poster via SU’s application portal InfoReady (click on the Falk Student Research Celebration). Please note that this link will not be active until after the March 18th LOI deadline.

Please note that significant student roles and/or first authorship is encouraged. Please discuss your contribution with your faculty mentor and complete the credit taxonomy form that is provided (due 4/27/21 by 3pm, submit with poster via InfoReady). Student contributions are judged in part using credit taxonomy.

Scientific Poster

Posters should display empirical, exploratory, policy analytic, process or program evaluation, case study, and/or hypothesis driven research (faculty supervised or original student projects) that utilize qualitative, quantitative or mixed methods. No literature reviews accepted. If you have questions about your project meeting the above criteria you should discuss with your faculty mentor/advisor.

View instructions on how to make a scientific poster using Microsoft PowerPoint (provided by Professor David Larsen). View additional research poster tutorials about the poster template and examples (provided by Professor Maria Brown).

Poster Accessibility:

Students should check their posters for accessibility compliance. Please use the built-in accessibility checker in your document to ensure your poster is accessible.

The built-in accessibility checker can alert you to some common accessibility errors in your document, including missing alternative text on images/charts, missing headers on tables, poor table formatting, unclear hyperlinks, and missing slide titles. It will also alert you to reading order problems.

View the Creating Accessible PowerPoint Presentations in Office tutorial to learn how to make your powerpoint poster or pdf file accessible. Please pay special attention to instructions for using alternative text on images, descriptive hypertext links, accessible charts and graphs (requires alternative text), and accessible tables (requires using alternative text). Students can additionally check their final PDF poster file for accessibility using the European Internet Inclusion Initiative (EIII) online Tingtun PDF Checker.

If you have any questions, please contact Katie Gratien, kgratien@syr.edu.

Presentation Video:

The presentation (3-5-minute audio or video recording) is an overview of your study. View a guide for recording at home. Poster presenters want to address the following questions:

• Why – Why did you do this study?
• How – How did you do this? Discuss your methods.
• What – What did you find out? Were there unexpected results?
• So What – What should others take away?

A hyperlink (with descriptive text) to your recording (video or audio) must be included on your poster at the bottom of the Abstract field.

Recommendation for recording software and accessibility compliance:

It is recommended that you use Kaltura (cloud-based video platform) for your recording as Kaltura automatically captions videos. Students will need to review and edit the captions in their presentation (especially looking for proper names and technical terminology) for accessibility compliance. Kaltura makes it easy to edit the captions. Go to My Media and choose Edit, then choose Captions and click the Edit Captions button. Once changes are made to the text of the captions click Save.

If you will be using YouTube, YouTube automatically captions videos as well. YouTube also offers the ability to clean up the automatic captions.

Kaltura and YouTube captions take time to auto-generate, if you don’t see any captions available to edit, wait some hours and check your video again.

Key Dates:

March 18 – Poster LOI (entry form) Due (via InfoReady)
April 27 – Submissions Due (via InfoReady) by 3pm
May 4-7 – Virtual Poster Display (via email distribution)
May 5 – Judging & Awards

For more information:

Email questions to Katie Gratien or Amy Dumas, Falk College Research Center, at kgratien@syr.edu or adumas@syr.edu.

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