Biological Sciences Department

The goals of these guidelines are to make the evaluation of presentations equitable, to streamline the process of making awards, and to make the presentations more enjoyable.

• There are three ways to present at an ECSC: A full-length submitted paper, a platform (oral) presentation and a poster presentation.

• A student may submit a full-length paper and present either a platform presentation or a poster presentation.

• An individual student can present either a platform presentation or a poster presentation but not both.

• An individual student can be coauthor on more than one full-length paper, platform presentation or poster presentation but cannot be first author on a platform presentation and a poster presentation simultaneously.

• The first author of a submitted full-length paper must register and attend the conference to be eligible for an award.

• Awards are made to the first author of a submitted paper or to the presenter of a platform or poster presentation.

• A platform or poster presentation may be made by only one student. Although multiple authors are fine, multiple presenters are not allowed.

• The content of a full-length paper, platform presentation or poster presentation must have data. Usually this takes one of two forms: Discovery science in which the investigator is presenting novel, goal-directed findings; or hypothesis-driven science in which data are analyzed to test a hypothesis.