Students Angela Deotto and Lilly Solomon recognized for poster projects
If you were wandering through Vari Hall last Wednesday afternoon, you could have stopped and chatted with聽fourth-year psychology students about聽some pretty esoteric聽subjects.
The rotunda was a maze of posters featuring聽the thesis projects of 78 students ready to explain whether聽eating disturbances are聽symptoms of depression, how to measure prejudice, the relationship between exercise and forgiveness, how聽sound affects perception of space. Their research projects, supervised by聽faculty members,聽spanned all areas of聽psychology聽鈥 cognitive, social, developmental, quantitative, history and theory, neuroscience, and clinical.
The end-of-year event has become so big that the Department of Psychology moved it to Vari Hall last year from the crowded halls of the Behavioural Science Building.
The poster projects are worth five per cent of students鈥 final mark and judged by roving graduate students based on clarity, design and the students鈥 ability to explain their research in a comprehensive manner.聽Many will go on to present their research at a variety of national and international conferences.
鈥淲hether you are speaking to your supervisor,聽other professors or聽fellow students, it is important to know how to present and communicate your results to different audiences,鈥 says psychology Professor Susan Murtha, who has organized the event for the past three years.
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And the students who go on to graduate studies will have to defend their research to external examiners who don鈥檛 know much about their field. 鈥淚t is really important to be able to understand how to communicate.鈥
Left: Poster winners Angela Deotto (top) and Lilly Solomon. Photos by Brett Thompson
By 4pm, judges had selected two who did it best: Angela Deotto (supervised by Christine Till) for her poster "Mathematical impairment in pediatric-onset multiple sclerosis: Relationship with white matter integrity"; and Lilly Solomon (supervised by Jennifer Steeves) for her poster "MS to the 鈥榦ccipital face area鈥 affects face recognition but not categorization". They won $50 gift certificates to the 91亚色 Bookstore.
Both Steeves and Till are members of the .