2012 OARDC Annual Conference

Announcement and Call for Posters

**Please note** participants must register separately to attend the conference

OARDC Annual Research Conference
Shisler Conference Center
Poster Competition
Fisher North Exhibit Area
April 26, 2012

Poster Competition on Research Projects

A poster competition will be held during the OARDC Annual Research Conference on April 26, 2012 at Fisher Auditorium, North Exhibit Area, Wooster Campus. Competition is open to any currently enrolled M.S. or Ph.D., student, or those who received their graduate degrees after Spring Quarter, 2011, working on or supported by an OARDC or College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences supported project. This year posters from Postdocs (Research Scientists are excluded) and Research assistants/associates that are not currently working on an advanced degree are also invited. Entrants may present only posters on original research they have conducted while at The Ohio State University. Each entrant may present only one poster.

Entrants may present posters only on original research they have conducted while at Ohio State University. There are no restrictions regarding number of graduate students, postdocs, and/or staff participating per faculty member or department. Separate competitions will be held for Masters and Doctoral students. First, second, and third place winners in each competition will receive cash awards of $500, $300 and $150, respectively. Winners will be announced at the conference.

This competition has been established to showcase graduate research in the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences and the OARDC, to encourage graduate student participation at the Conference, and to enlighten College and OARDC personnel on the diversity of research projects being conducted at our institution..

Please encourage your lab members to participate and send them this site.
Guidelines and abstract template can be found at
http://www.oardc.ohio-state.edu/annualconference/poster.asp

Registration: Participants must submit his/her name, degree sought, department, advisor’s name and email address, and upload an abstract including title of the poster and authors using the web based registration form at http://www.oardc.ohio-state.edu/annualconference/posterreg.asp by 5:00 pm on March 2, 2012. (The web site will be closed for submission by the deadline. There will be no late submissions.)

A pdf file of all posters must be submitted to the poster registration site by Tuesday, March 16, at 5:00 PM. To do this, you will need to have registered your poster and uploaded the abstract by March 2nd.

• Registration, submission of an abstract, a pdf file of the poster and displaying the poster during the Annual Research Conference are required to be eligible for the Poster Competition. Students are requested to be in attendance at his/her poster to answer questions by conference participants during poster viewing times on April 26: 10:00 – 11:30 am.