The University of North Carolina biology department treats its guest speakers like rock stars. And they've got the sweet posters to prove it.
[Published 27th February 2009 12:39 PM GMT]
Most research institutes host some type of distinguished lecture series, where they invite luminary scientists to give guest seminars. But at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill biology department, invited speakers are truly distinguished by being immortalized on slick concert posters. Each biology "gig" poster is hand screen-printed by Chapel Hill's The Merch, a design duo that usually creates band posters and t-shirts, rather than biology bulletins.
Bob Goldstein, a UNC evolutionary and developmental biologist, spoke with The Scientist about how the school's biology posters end up looking like collector's items, and not just lackluster placards that get tacked up at most academic conferences.
The National Centre for Biological Sciences, GKVK, Bngalore, India too has posters of guest lectures (and even seminars and conferences) that are a collectors item.
Guest Lecturers at NUS, Singapore
by Easwara Subramanian
[Comment posted 2009-02-28 11:59:47]
In continuation of my previous post, the URL for the seminar website at NUS is
www.dbs.nus.edu.sg/eventlist/seminars/index.htm
Biology Rocks? Check out Singapore!
by Easwara Subramanian
[Comment posted 2009-02-28 11:41:50]
One other University that has been doing this - invited speakers being immortalized on slick posters- for quite some time now is the National University of Singapore . Check out their website!
[Comment posted 2009-03-18 04:39:57]
[Comment posted 2009-02-28 11:59:47]
www.dbs.nus.edu.sg/eventlist/seminars/index.htm
[Comment posted 2009-02-28 11:41:50]
[Comment posted 2009-02-27 19:28:49]