Call For Student Posters: Multiple Perspectives on Access, Inclusion, & Disability

March 19, 2007

Multiple Perspectives on Access, Inclusion, & Disability 2007:
Rights, Responsibilities & Social Change

The Seventh Annual Multiple Perspectives on Access, Inclusion & Disability conference is seeking undergraduate and graduate student research; performance, writing or visual art; or applied and community service projects for a poster session and reception on Monday April 3, 2007. Please visit: http://ada.osu.edu/conferences for more information on the conference. Posters that relate to this year's conference theme "Rights, Responsibilities & Social Change" will be given preference in the review process.

Posters can take several forms:

Print material mounted on poster board or display panels or arranged on a table
PowerPoint, web page or video presentation from laptop (10 minute length recommended)
Presentation materials must fit on a 3'x6' table or along 6' or less of wall space
Presenters must provide their own equipment

Posters are being solicited to represent the broad interdisciplinary approaches to disability. Awards and recognition will be given at the undergraduate and graduate level in four categories:

Class Projects & Papers
Independent student research (independent study, thesis, grant sponsored or dissertation)
Community Service, Outreach, and Applied Problem Solving
Art & Performance

Visit these sites for information on how to present at a poster session:

* http://airweb.org/page.asp?page=586;
* http://writing.colostate.edu/guides/speaking/poster/index.cfm
* http://www.plu.edu/~libr/workshops/multimedia/posters.html

Students and teams of students who wish to present a poster display of their project must send the following information to ADA-OSU@osu.edu no later than March 19, 2007.

A title and a 50 to 500 word description of their proposed poster
E-mail address, phone number, and surface mail address of primary presenter
As appropriate, university, department, grant, course or student organization affiliation
A letter of support from a faculty member or organization advisor associated with the project

Submissions will be reviewed as they arrive; selected participants will be notified within 2 weeks of submission and no later than by March 23, 2007. Conference fees will be waived for all accepted presenters. For more information contact: L. Scott Lissner, ADA Coordinator ada-osu@osu.edu or 614-292-6207 (voice) or 614-688-8605 (tty)