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Although occasionally there would be visually pleasing posters that promoted less-than-stellar science, Purrington usually found that “the attractiveness of a poster is highly correlated with the ...

Once you finish designing your poster, have your lab mentor look it over, and have your PI (i.e., the professor whose lab you’re in) look at it, too. It’s important that you get your mentor’s approval ...

Poster presentations may not seem as prestigious as oral presentations, but they are a great opportunity to interact with other scientists in your field in a reasonably structured way. Just like ...

Posters can educate, spark new ideas, or even lead to collaborations. With the Chemical Science Symposium deadline for submitting abstracts for posters on 31 August, we asked our keynote speaker and ...