Michigan State University doctoral student Mike Morrison has a redesign for scientific posters to spell out their main point in big, easy-to-read letters. (Courtesy of Mike Morrison) Mike Morrison ...

Last week, NPR’s "All Things Considered" covered an unusual topic: Scientific conference posters. For the first time in decades, scientists are rethinking the traditional design of the posters they ...

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 ...

Each year, scientists present countless research posters at conferences, symposia and academic gatherings, making the poster one of the most common—and most visible—forms of scientific communication.