Object of the assignment:  To make a poster describing who your scientist is and what their contributions to the field of chemistry are.

Guidelines:    This part of the project is designed to simulate the type of poster presentations that are given at scientific meetings.  Therefore, your poster should be as professional as possible.  In addition, it should not be merely a reiteration of your papers.  Feel free to include information that you did not put in your papers if it is relevant.  

Your poster should be viewed as a visual aid that will be used in a presentation.  Your poster must typed and should consist mainly of pictures, graphs, and brief descriptions.  Molecular structures should also be professional - no hand drawn structures!  Points will be deducted for unprofessional posters!  A copy of ChemDraw has been placed on the computers in M230for your use.  ChemDraw should be used to create any organic molecules needed for your poster.  If you have never used ChemDraw before, please set up an appointment with me to go over the program before you start typing your poster.  The following sections must be included on your poster:

	Title Be descriptive.  It is OK if the title is fairly long.
	Authors This should be your name and your affiliation For multiple authors (which we should NOT have), all authors are listed, and the presenter's name is underlined.
	Conclusion Summary.  Should be very short. What is the most important contribution and why?
	References Use the ACS style.  List all references used in your poster.  (Use footnote notation to indicate which information is from what reference. NOTE:  This section should not be in original work - and acknowledgements section is used instead.

The rest of the poster should consist of data, graphs, pictures, etc.  Remember, the poster should be seen as a visual aid.  Therefore, you do not want it to be very wordy.  The idea is to have the basic topics and points on your poster (an outline form is always good).  This topics will then be expanded upon in a presentation.  A person should be able to look at your poster and have a general idea of your topic and conclusions, however, they should not be able to obtain the details from your poster.  In addition, your poster is not meant to be read like a paper.  Except for the conclusion section, your poster should not contain paragraphs. 

All posters must be done on trifold poster boards.

You may find the following website (from Swarthmore College) helpful.  It contains more information on what should be included in a poster.  In addition, it provides information about scientific poster sessions (these are your guidelines for the extra credit poster session).
URL:  http://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/cpurrin1/posteradvice.htm

Grading Rubric:

Category	Points
Title	1
Author	1
Conclusion	2
References	2
Content	5
Appearance & Organization	2
Readability (Spelling, grammar, etc.)	2
Total	15