Create and have printed a 36 inch by 48 inch or 24 by 36 inch (portrait or landscape) poster describing your research project. PDF must be uploaded to your repository by 1:30p on Monday, June 3.
You will present your poster during the MACSS poster session on Wednesday, June 5, from 12:30-2:30pm in Ida Noyes Hall.
- Overall design/layout (10 points)
- Clarity
- Organization
- Structure/flow
- Use of color
- Parsimony and efficiency of language
- Visualization (10 points)
- Figures
- Tables
- Content (10 points)
- What is the research question?
- What is the answer to the research question?
- How did you answer the research question?
- How strong is the evidence?
- Powerpoint
- LaTeX
- R Markdown
- Other
- Use your template to render your poster as a PDF.
- Proof-read the poster for typos or weird visual issues.
- Give the electronic file to the printer
- Your poster does NOT need to be laminated, and does NOT need to have foam core backing. We will provide the core backing when you present your poster.
- John Crerar Library, PSD Graphic Arts
- Around $50 for a 24 x 36 inch non-laminated poster
- Around $85 for a 36 x 48 inch non-laminated poster
- 24 hour turnaround
- Cash or check only
- Fedex Office at 1315 E 57th St.
- $44 for 24 x 36 inch non-laminated poster
- $87 for 36 x 48 inch non-laminated poster
- 24 hour turnaround
- Unfortunately, the Booth printing shop is no longer
- Show people what is in your paper.
- Every poster must include the:
- Paper title
- Paper author and contact information
- Date
- From the content section of the grading rubric above, your poster should clearly state:
- the research question
- the answer to the research question
- your methods to answering the research question
- an indication about how strong the evidence is
- Helpful tips
- Don't reproduce the paper
- Keep the words to a minimum
- Choose your words carefully (informative phrases)
- Have a logical flow
- Make the font size and font style and text placement legible
- Visualize your results
- What do you want the reader of and listener to your poster to come away with?
- Literature cited (not optional if you cite things on the poster)
- Acknowledgments
- Full abstract
- Verbatim text
- Stand by your research (and by your poster)
- In a poster presentation, you are having an exchange with your listener/visitor.
- Start slow, then gauge where your listener/visitor's interests are.
- What do you want them to come away with? What did they actually come away with?
- Don't read from your poster.
- Behave professionally (and dress professionally)
- Bad poster: "Pigs in Space..."
- Good poster: Soltoff, "Do Decisions Follow Dollars?"
- Good poster: Soltoff, "A Matched Case Analysis..."
- Good and bad examples, Duke Econ poster page
- AEA 2017 poster session