Biology Rocks

The University of North Carolina biology department treats its guest speakers like rock stars. And they've got the sweet posters to prove it.

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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 linkurl:biology department,;http://www.bio.unc.edu/ invited speakers are truly distinguished by being immortalized on slick linkurl:concert posters.;http://www.flickr.com/photos/biologyposters/ Each biology "gig" poster is hand screen-printed by Chapel Hill's linkurl:The Merch,;http://www.themerch.net/index.html a design duo that usually creates band posters and t-shirts, rather than biology bulletins. linkurl:Bob Goldstein,;http://www.bio.unc.edu/faculty/goldstein/lab/ a UNC evolutionary and developmental biologist, spoke with __The Scientist__ about how the school's linkurl:biology posters;http://www.flickr.com/photos/biologyposters/ end up looking like collector's items, and not just lackluster placards that get tacked up at most academic conferences.
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[19th August 2002]
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