Policy Minded?
Organize a Topic-Contributed Poster
Session at JSM
Lara Schmidt, JSM 2009 Poster Chair
Top 10 Reasons
to Organize a
Topic-Contributed
Poster Session
10. Two words: unlimited
thumbtacks
9. You will be adored by the 3+
people in your session
8. Presenters can demo their
software (tables provided) and
display results and handouts
Emily
Sheldon
discusses
a
poster
7. It’s free
during
JSM 2008.
6. You’ll further collaboration
among your colleagues by
bringing them together
er
Kyle Rudser
speaks
with
poster
session
organiz
5. You’re not a stodgy “PC” invited
John
Castelloe
.
paper kind of person; you’re a
hip “Mac” poster dude!
around a specific policy question (e.g., Has
Title 9 changed women’s attitudes toward
4. You’ll be able to frame an
E
veryone knows posters are fun,
social, and a great way to display
your work at JSM. But they are also sports and fitness? Do drug abuse prevention
important policy debate by your
a great way to communicate different programs actually reduce future abuse? Do
aspects of the same topic by grouping simi- monetary incentives increase military reten-
choice of poster presenters
lar posters into one session. Topic- tion rates?) Or, get a few colleagues together
contributed poster sessions draw interested to present posters about how a particular
3. Carrying your poster tube on
viewers by featuring several (three or more) research method can be used to answer policy
the airplane to DC will make you
posters on the same general topic. They questions in many areas.
look creative
also provide poster presenters with a diverse, If these ideas appeal to you or if you have
yet interested, audience. an idea of your own, consider organizing
2. Organizing a session at JSM In keeping with the theme of JSM 2009, a topic-contributed poster session at JSM.
2009 makes you part of the
“Statistics: From Evidence to Policy,” we Organizing a session is easy and reward-
encourage you to organize sessions around ing; to see why, read the ‘top ten’ sidebar.
Washington elite
policy topics. For example, assemble a few Then, get started organizing a session by
1. You’ve always wanted to be a
posters dealing with the same policy issue— contacting Poster Chair Lara Schmidt at
transportation safety, energy use, health of
Laras@rand.org. She will answer your ques-
poster child
the aging population, or state of the environ- tions and help you along the road to orga-
ment, to name a few. Or, organize a session nizing a session. See you in Washington! n
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