CNF Annual Meeting Poster Information

CNF Annual Meeting Poster Instructions & Guidelines

Just to say it up front, we reserve the right to decline any poster.

For CORNELL CENTERS

If you would like to have a display, we will assign a poster board and table of your own. The poster boards are 6' wide by 4' tall set on a 6-foot table. You can start setting up at 4:00 p.m. in the Duffield Hall Atrium. Just find the board and table with your center's name on it. This is all you really need to know, so feel free to ignore the rest of these instructions!

For CNF USERS

YOUR POSTER INFORMATION MUST BE RECEIVED BY THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5TH!

The full info request will be in your registration confirmation from Melanie-Claire.

 

[1] Your posters must not be more than FORTY-FIVE (45) inches wide! We will mark off 48" for each poster, so yours must be no more than 45" or your poster will get covered up by the next poster. (You are welcome to use the poster trimmer we have in the CNF office.)

[2] Please include the CNF Acknowledgement text somewhere on your poster. Just copy and paste (without the quotes). "This work was performed in part at the Cornell NanoScale Facility, an NNCI member supported by NSF Grant NNCI-2025233."

[3] Please include the CNF logo somewhere on your poster. It is available HERE

[4] The exact format of your poster is, of course, up to you, but we do recommend you have your poster title, your full name and contact information, and your principal investigator, department, and university spelled out LARGE and BOLD at the top of your poster.

[5] WARNING! Many of you will probably print your posters on the big plot printer in our CNF CAD room. You simply must NOT wait until the last minute to print your poster. Print your poster the week before the meeting! The CNF IT staff will be too busy the week of the meeting to assist you.

WARNING! PRINT YOUR POSTER THE WEEK BEFORE THE MEETING!

[6] I will send out an email the week before the meeting to all the poster presenters with their poster number. Occasionally, once I've sent out this email, someone asks me to place their poster near someone else or further from someone. Or make some other correction. Please do that asap if applicable.

[7] On the day of the meeting, poster set up begins at 4:00 p.m. When you arrive in the Duffield Hall Atrium, find your poster number and then pin your poster up with the top left corner lined up directly under the bottom left corner of your poster number card.

Like this!

Poster Placement

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Again, we will be marking off 48" for each poster, so if you start yours before the card or after the card, your poster will get covered up by the poster before or the poster after.

[8] Again. Poster set up begins at 4:00 p.m. Please do not arrive earlier than 4:00 p.m. The nerves you save WILL be mine.

[9] We will arrange Amazon gift cards prizes for posters, judged using the criteria below. So it behooves you to do a good job creating and presenting your poster. Plus there will be a lot of corporate sponsors at the soiree, so bring your spiffy CV and talk them up for a job! Finally, as a forewarning, I will ask the poster winners to donate their poster to CNF so we can set them up in our display case. So if you win, please be prepared to hand over your poster!

 

POSTERS MUST NOT BE MORE THAN FORTY-FIVE (45) INCHES WIDE -- THANK YOU!


JUDGING CRITERIA FOR POSTER PRESENTATIONS

First Impression:
How difficult is it to read the poster?
How are color schemes used, are they easy on the eye?
How crowded is the poster?
Is there a good flow of information (logical, layout of information)?
Does the poster stimulate interest and discussion?

Layout:
Is the poster visually pleasing or just a jumble?
How easy is it to follow the sequence of the research via the poster?

Readability:
Is font size or style easily readable?
How much text does the poster contain?
Are there many grammar or spelling mistakes?

Title:
How specific/adequate/long/short is the title?

Identification:
Can the author(s) be easily identified?
Is contact information available (ie. Department/University/Email)

Aims and Objectives:
Are the aims and objectives of the research clearly stated?

Methods:
How detailed, appropriate, original are the methods and is there enough explanation?

Results:
How clear and well labelled are graphs and figures?
How complex are graphs?
How well are the results presented?

Conclusions:
Are any conclusions presented and if so do they reflect the aims and are they supported by the data?
Is there a memorable “take-home” message?

Scientific Content:
Was the research put into broader context/ justification for research?
Was the content suitable for experts and non-experts alike?
Was there sufficient scientific explanation?

Student:
How much do the student’s explanations demonstrate knowledge / ownership / enthusiasm for their work?