2023 Nevada Space Grant and NASA EPSCoR Statewide Meeting

All students participating in research funded by the Nevada Space Grant are strongly encouraged to attend the annual meeting and provide a research poster presentation. A poster session will be held on Friday, April 28, 2023 so that students may share their research with everyone in attendance. If you wish to participate in the poster session, please provide a headshot and abstract by Monday, April 17, 2023.

Poster Session Eligibility: Students currently enrolled within a Nevada institution of higher education are eligible to participate in the poster session.

Format

Students should bring their posters with them on April 28^th, set up, and take them down after the poster session. Wall space and command strips will be provided in order for students to display their posters.

Title: Include a banner frame clearly stating the title of the poster, your name, your mentor(s) name, institution, and department. Be sure to include the Nevada NASA Space Grant Consortium logo and the logo of your institution. Please reach out to Michael Lujan (mlujan@nshe.nevada.edu) if you need the NVSGC logo.

Overview: Clearly articulate what you did, how you did it, why you did it, and what it contributes to your field and the larger field of human knowledge.

Introduction: Specify the main argument of your study, provide an overview of what you did, the evidence that supports that argument, and point out the significance and value of the research. Be succinct in this one-frame element.

Method: Illustrate how you conducted your project.

Results (If applicable): Indicate what your research has revealed.

Conclusion: Include an explanation of the ways the results satisfy the research objective. Illustrate how your findings impact scholars in your field and members of the broader intellectual community.

Poster Abstract Preparation Guidelines and Submission: All confirmed participants must upload a final poster abstract by April 17, 2023. Abstracts should be single-spaced, written in Times New Roman, 12-point font with a maximum word count of 300. Participants must include the project title, authors, and institution in the submission headline. The body of the abstract should describe the background and intent of the research, methods, discussion of relevance to NASA’s strategic research plan, and research results. If results are not yet achieved, students may instead summarize future direction.

NEVADA NASA SPACE GRANT Acknowledgement: MUST BE INCLUDED ON YOUR POSTER.

Full Support: “This material is based upon work supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under Grant No. 80NSSC20M00043.”

Partial Support: “This material is based upon work supported in part by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under Grant No. 80NSSC20M00043.”

Project incomplete?

If you have any preliminary results, use them as examples of the kind of results you hope to obtain. Discuss the significance of these results.

If you don’t have any preliminary results, you can focus on projected results: what do you think you might find when your results are complete?

Whether you have complete, partial, or only projected results, keep in mind that your explanation of those results—their significance—is more important than the raw results themselves.

All Nevada faculty funded by the Nevada NASA Space Grant Consortium and Nevada NASA EPSCoR are strongly encouraged to attend the annual meeting and provide an oral research presentation. An oral research presentation session will be held on Friday, April 28, 2023, so that faculty may share their research with everyone in attendance.

Eligibility: Faculty funded by the NVSGC and/or Nevada NASA EPSCoR during the 2022-2023 cycle are eligible to participate in the oral research presentation session. This oral presentation session is first come, first serve.

Oral Presentation and Abstract Guidelines

Format

All abstracts should be a maximum of 300 words. Oral presentations should be accompanied by PowerPoint slides. Access to a laptop and overhead projector will be provided for all the presenters.

Title: Include an introductory slide clearly stating the title of the presentation, your name, institution, and department. Be sure to include the Nevada NASA Space Grant Consortium logo and/or the Nevada NASA EPSCoR logo(s) and the logo of your institution.

Introduction: State research goal, knowledge gap your research fills and how the research advances NASA, Nevada, and/or NSHE goals

Methods: Brief description of methods used

Results: What were your major findings? Challenges? What did you learn?

Outcomes: What publications, proposals, presentations resulted from your work?

Impacts: How has your work contributed to knowledge in engineering/science/education and society?

Oral Presentation Abstract Preparation Guidelines and Submission: All confirmed participants must upload a final abstract by April 10, 2023. Abstracts should be single-spaced, written in Times New Roman, 12-point font with a maximum word count of 300. Participants must include the project title, authors, and institution in the submission headline. The body of the abstract should describe the background and intent of the research, methods, discussion of relevance to NASA’s strategic research plan, and research results. If results are not yet achieved, researchers may instead summarize future direction.

NEVADA NASA SPACE GRANT Acknowledgement: “This material is based upon work supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under Grant No. 80NSSC20M00043.”

NEVADA NASA EPSCoR RID GRANT Acknowledgement: “This material is based upon work supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under Grant No. 80NSSC20M00043.”

Project incomplete?

If you have any preliminary results, use them as examples of the kind of results you hope to obtain. Discuss the significance of these results.

If you don’t have any preliminary results, you can focus on projected results.