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Posters will be hung instead of set on tables, eliminating the need to tri-fold.
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All posters must be a digital output. You will be able to print your poster in the Office if Undergraduate Research at no cost to the student presenter. You may NOT display a handmade poster. Handmade posters will not be allowed to be displayed.
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General Size formats are 42 x 36 (Width x Height) with exception to departmental standards.
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If printing in the OUR, your poster should be set up on a PowerPoint slide (sized to the poster size) or may be a pdf. DO NOT use Word, Excel or other word processing programs.
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Contact OUR at 626-8541 to arrange a time to print your poster. Bring your poster on a CD or USB Flash drive.
There are many ways to produce a successful poster, but below are a few ideas that you may find useful.
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Understand the audience that will read your poster.
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Make your presentation clear. There should be enough information for the reader to understand the work by him/herself.
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Be concise. The reader should only need to spend 5 minutes to understand what you did, found etc.
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Organize your poster. If you are constructing a scientific poster then there should be an introduction, methods, results, and discussion section. Alternately, you can use this template to layout your poster.
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Use a blank piece of paper to plan the layout of your poster before you begin constructing the poster.
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Make your poster visually appealing. Nobody wants to look at a poster full of text. One suggestion is to consider the text of your poster to be captions of figures/pictures. Structure your poster around the figures.
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The banner heading across the top of the poster should be exactly the same as the abstract in the program, i.e., title, authors, etc. and, with letters large enough to be read from approximately 20 feet away.
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Use only one or two fonts throughout and make sure the text is large enough to be readable from a distance of 4-5 feet.
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Use color for your pictures, graphs etc. whenever possible. May sure your pictures are atleast 150 dpi to print well. Do not make small images larger. Avoid using web images wherever possible.
*Revised from an Undergraduate Research Experience in Biology handout created by Dr. Ron Meyers.
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