• Undergraduate and Graduate Students: You are invited to attend a workshop entitled: "How to Make An Effective Research Poster Presentation", held on Tuesday, April 5, 2005, from 3:30-5:00 in Harrelson 307.  Dr. George Hess, Associate Professor in Forestry who teaches a course on poster making,  will conduct the workshop. He will discuss the "nuts and bolts" of making a poster presentation and display some examples of already completed posters. If you are going to be making a poster presentation at any upcoming conferences, including, but not limited to the NC State Undergraduate Research Symposium on April 28, 2005, or even if you are not presenting now,  but think you may in the future, this workshop will be VERY helpful!  Registration is required. You may register on-line at:
  http://www.fis.ncsu.edu/grad_fellows/MGE/registrationform3.htm.
• Making Yourself Competitive for Graduate School
• How to Make Yourself a Good Candidate for Graduate School Workshop
  11.18.04 3:00 - 5:00 Witherspoon Cinema

Questions or comments can be directed to Dr. David Shafer, Assistant Dean of the Graduate School, at david_shafer@ncsu.edu or 515.7052.

• Research and Professional Ethics Program
  • Fall Seminar Series 2004, http://www.chass.ncsu.edu/ethics/page.php?name=events
• NCSU On-Line Short Course Modules:

  • Lab Safety
  • Research Ethics
  • Philosophy of Science
  • Humane Care and Use of Animals in Research
    http://www.ncsu.edu/project/ungradreshhmi/evaluationModule/login.php

• On-Line courses and modules elsewhere:
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Lab Safety Site
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Biointeractive Virtual Labs
• Campus workshops and websites:
  • How to Make an Effective Oral Presentation - registration required
    January 27, 2005, 3:30 -5:00 Talley Student Ballroom
  • How to prepare and give a poster presentation
    • Creating Effective Poster Presentations
    • PowerPoint to Create a Poster
    • Catching Easy Mistakes
    • Resources for Poster Presenter: Evaluate Your Poster
  • How to write a grant proposal for a summer research award
  • Securing Funding for Graduate School
    
• Inquiry Guided Learning
• Excellent links on how to build a poster presentation:

http://west.osu.edu/Poster/Instructions.html

http://www.lemoyne.edu/OTRP/otrpresources/poster.pdf

http://www.strath.ac.uk/Departments/CAP/poster/

http://www.asp.org/education/howto_onPosters.html

http://www.fis.ncsu.edu/grad_fellows/MGE/registrationform3.htm

Questions or comments can be directed to Dr. David Shafer, Assistant Dean of the Graduate School, at david_shafer@ncsu.edu or 515.7052.

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• Dr. George Hess short (5 week) course on creating scientific posters
  In the course, I teach techniques for effective communication using
  a poster. Each student will develop a poster describing his or her
  research, so students should have research results that they want
  to report. Details on the web site at: http://courses.ncsu.edu/for610e/common/