Poster sessions are valuable for more detailed discussions of experimental work and for providing students with opportunities for one-to-one interaction with our faculty. There will be a poster contest this year. Prizes will be awarded for the best graduate and post-doc posters.
Notes for poster session
- Poster boards are 48″ x 36″ and can be arranged vertically or horizontally. It has been suggested that posters should be created with 48″ tall x 36″ wide dimensions and mounted with the long axis being vertical.
- Every poster should make clear what is the specific question being asked. This could be by giving the answer as the poster title or by having a subtitle stating “The question asked is … “
- Posters should severely limit text and figures; less is more! That goes along with making the poster a specific detail and not a summary of all the work done by that student or lab. A poster is a story, not a thesis! The goal is for viewers in a general audience to comprehend and remember the poster.
- Figures and text should be numbered to show the progression of the poster.
- An abstract should be presented in large enough type to read at a distance.
The poster should answer simply these questions:
- What is the question asked?
- What is the experimental design to get an answer?
- What results were obtained?
- How are these results explained?
It is the job of the person standing by the poster to amplify why we/they care about this question and what are the next steps.
