Aging Policy Fair

• Share your ideas and research with area leaders about important issues facing older adults
• Develop your research skills by working with a faculty or community agency mentor
• Sharpen your presentation skills
• Great addition to your resume
• Learn about issues facing older adults
• Present your research to community organizations and policymakers

The symposium is about partnering with faculty and community agencies to create a project or complete research that is focused on older adults.

You may find a faculty mentor who is interested in a topic or initiate a community-based action research project in partnership with an agency supervisor or mentor. The symposium will inform community leaders, policy makers and government officials about the needs and issues facing older adults.

Attendees can access an online schedule that also provides poster titles and a short abstract of the poster. You may also invite clients and consumers who represent the groups you are studying to attend the symposium. You will stand at your poster and have face-to-face interactions with attendees who want to learn more about your topic and discuss implications for services and policy making.

A poster is a visual communication display that allows you to present your research or area of investigation (project) in summary form on a 47 1/2"  x  36" poster paper. This poster is tacked up to a cork board during your presentation and people circulate through an exhibit hall to visit their posters of interest. The visual display summarizes your research results using tables, graphs, and pictures.

Poster Sample Template

Contact a faculty person or community agency supervisor and ask them to work with you on a project of mutual agreement. In consultation with your mentor, write an abstract about what you propose to do. The mentor may be any EWU or (SFCC, SCC) Community College faculty person or community agency supervisor/mentor who is interested in participating and willing to give you feedback during completion of the project.

Yes, your mentor MUST read and approve your abstract or proposal before you submit. Please include your mentor's name, relationship to you, and contact information in your abstract application.

Generally you should introduce your topic in the abstract by:

• Defining your focus
• Discussing your research question or project
• Why you are choosing it
• Describe briefly the methods you used for the investigation (i.e. community-based participatory research, literature reviews, interviews with consumers, survey)
• The results you obtained. It is okay if your project is "in process" when you submit the abstract. Please note this and indicate the expected date of completion for the project (project must be completed before the day of the Symposium).
• Discuss the implications of your finding for policy-making and services for older persons

• Electronically submit an abstract description in a .doc, .docx. or .pdf document. Limit your submission to 2000 characters. This count is for the body of the abstract narrative ONLY.
• Include the title, author(s) [up to 3 students may present one poster project], mentor(s), department, and university, college, or community agency. Also include contact information for all presenters and mentors.

Examples of accepted poster abstracts are included in the Conference Program from past EWU Student Research and Creative Works Symposiums.

See Past Symposia for examples.

The Multimedia Center (MMC) provides EWU students, staff and faculty access to high quality facilities for the creation of multimedia in support of academics and student life. Presenters have access to one (1) free poster print. So be sure that your poster is ready to be printed; the cost of a second print will be paid by the student.

The MMC is located at the EWU Cheney campus, on the main floor of the JFK Library, and is open during normal Library operating hours. The MMC staff is available to assist you with consultation and support for multimedia projects. Consultants can often suggest the best methods and media to use for your projects and provide assistance for use of the equipment and software.

For more information, see: Computer Labs