Research Project Guidelines

Important Deadlines

• First Draft of Manuscript due Tuesday, July 21 by 1 PM

• Rough Draft of Poster & Second Draft of Manuscript due Tuesday, July 28 by 1 PM

• Final Draft of Poster due Wednesday, July 29 by 11:59 PM

• Final Draft Manuscript due Thursday, July 30 by 11:59 PM

Instructions

Upload all documents in both their original formats (ex. Powerpoint) and as PDFs in your Google Drive folder by the stated deadline. Label your documents in this format: group number_title of the document (ex. Group9_Manuscript1).

Elida is available via email to provide feedback on any aspect of your research. If you plan on reaching out, please do so well before the respective deadline.

Contacts

For Submissions:

Hugo Gutiérrez hugutierrez@ucsd.edu

Chioma Ugwonali cugwonali@health.ucsd.edu

For Research Questions and Feedback:

Elida Kocharian ekocharian@health.ucsd.edu

Hugo Gutiérrez hugutierrez@ucsd.edu

Final Poster Required Content

1. Title and names of group members 

2. Introduction: Why does this hazard matter?

3. Science: How does this hazard affect human health?

4. Medicine: How does this hazard affect the practice of medicine?

5. Justice: Who is most affected — and why?

6. Community: How is this hazard present in San Diego?

7. Response: What is being done? What more could be done?

8. References (minimum three peer-reviewed sources plus at least one community or policy source)

9. One visual (map, chart, photograph, or illustration)

Poster Section Titles

• Use the following section titles in your poster, but make sure that the poster content is covered: Title, Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion

Map + Infographic. This visual approach immediately outlines the area of interest to your audience and allows you to break down the key factors affecting this area with pictographs for each environmental hazard or geographical feature. You may opt to include a screenshot or part of a screenshot from CalEnviroScreen and label neighborhoods of interest in this way. Remember to include a descriptive figure caption below your figure, 1 sentence max. on the poster but may be more elaborate in your manuscript.

Anatomical Diagram. Including a diagram of the human body labeled with organ systems, contaminants of interest, and their primary exposure routes is an effective way of illustrating a how and a why of your research project at once: how do environmental contaminants identified in my selected literature enter the body, and why are they a concern (i.e., what illnesses/defects result from contaminant exposure and are they unequally distributed across a population)?

Qualitative and Quantitative Graphs. Qualitative graphs like bar charts, pie graphs, and box-and-whisker plots give information about the frequency of categories and highlight differences between them. Regional incidence of a certain disease, ethnic makeup of different neighborhoods' populations, and access to a particular resource or medical service is often communicated by these kinds of graphs. Quantitative charts like histograms, line graphs, and scatterplots serve to inform audiences of relationships between two or more numerical variables, often being used to support or reject a hypothesized correlation between those variables.

Research Manuscript Outline

Use your manuscript as a starting point for creating your research poster. All the information from your poster should come from your manuscript.