Work with your mentor to ensure that your poster presentation’s content discloses only what is proper to be publicly shown. Your mentor will discuss with you and help you edit the poster’s title, list of authors, and content.
Easels and 3' by 4' Styrofoam boards will be provided. Posters should be printed on paper or fabric. Most posters are built using MS PowerPoint and include the following:
- title
- authors
- affiliation
- abstract
- introduction
- methods
- results
- discussion
- conclusion
- acknowledgments
- and references
Use a font size that makes it easy to read your poster from 4 feet away, use a lot of good-quality graphics, and limit text. Please use a white or very light background - that saves a lot of costs and is environmentally friendly. Dark background graphics will be changed by the print shop, and that might affect your poster negatively; thus, please do it yourself instead. Download this example poster in PowerPoint format.
Guidelines
- Set the poster’s size as 36 inches high and 48 inches wide.
- Spell check your work
- Finalize your poster and have it approved by your mentor
- Save the file as a PDF, naming it using the last name of the author. If there is more than one author, only use the last name of the first author.
- The maximum pdf size permitted is 10 MB. If your PDF is larger, edit/decrease the graphics’ resolution and resave.