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Step Eight: Poster and Defense
Overview
The Department requires thesis writers, including joint concentrators, to prepare and present a poster on their thesis research. This is a requirement of the thesis program and you will not be recommended for honors without participating. This year's poster session will take place on Tuesday, 21 April 2009 between 12 and 4 p.m.in William James hallways. You will be assigned a numbered station on one of the floors involved, 13, 14, or 15. and we will e-mail details shortly before the 21st. You should contact your committee to make sure it will be able to hold a defense for a specific time (place forthcoming) on the 21st; if not, you can schedule a private defense with your entire committee any time between April 20st and 24th.
If for any reason you and your committee cannot hold your defense during this period, you should schedule it earlier rather than later than these dates, in order to give the department time to recommend you for your degree so you can graduate this June.
Your Committee's comments on your written thesis will be sent to you before the poster session - no separate written grade will be determined or accompany the Committee's comments - and you may use them in preparation. After your poster defense, your thesis committee will grade your performance and combine it with their evaluation of your written thesis to arrive at a final overall grade for your thesis. They will report this on a thesis grade form, which will be available at the poster session, and return the form to the Psychology Undergraduate Office by the next day. If you are holding your defense at another time, you should print the form and bring it to your defense; afterwards, you or your advisor should bring the completed form to the Psychology Undergraduate Office that day. Finally, all participants will gather at WJH 1550 at 4:15 for remarks by Head Tutor Mahzarin Banaji and a champagne reception.
Further information (including information on how to prepare a poster) will be provided in the group honors meeting on Thursday 2 April (4-5 p.m., WJH 1550).
Presentation of a poster at the thesis poster session is mandatory. Only certified medical or family emergencies can exempt a thesis writer from this requirement, although even in these instances a poster will still be required. An unexcused absence from the poster session will lower the composite thesis grade one step from the written grade (e.g., summa to magna plus, magna plus to magna).
Websites that provide useful information about preparing posters are:
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