Templates and Instructions for Poster Sessions

While the content of your research is of primary importance, it also has to be accessible and clearly presented. Here we provide templates and guidelines for PowerPoint presentations and posters to be used in conferences and other public presentations of your work. The templates can be easily modified for those who are skillful with PowerPoint, if desired. We welcome new material and suggestions.

Templates and Guidelines

• Guidelines for Effective Posters
• PowerPoint Presentation guidelines
• 36 by 48 template, with UC logo
• 42 by 48 template, with UC logo
• PowerPoint template, with Demography Dept logo
• PowerPoint Presentation template with UC logo

Other Resources

• If you are designing your own slides/poster or using an open-source alternative to PowerPoint, you can download UC Berkeley seals from the University Chancellor’s office (you must accept terms of use first) for your poster or powerpoint slides.
• Advice on Designing Scientific Posters” from Swarthmore biology
• Advice on style and presentation from Presentation Zen , by Garr Reynolds.
• There are many, many other sites with posters – google and you shall find.

Poster Printing

• The Moffit Copy Center is an on campus full-service provider for students and departments. Moffit can produce color and black and white posters up to 36″ onsite, in gloss or uncoated paper. Oversized posters or mounted posters can be produced at the UCSF facility and delivered back to Moffitt for easy pickup and delivery. Students can pay by cash or with credit card, and departments can pay with a chart-string.

Resources

• Resources
• Computing
• Data
• Population Journals
• Population Research Centers
• Templates and Instructions for Poster Sessions