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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,;https://www.bio.unc.edu/ invited speakers are truly distinguished by being immortalized on slick linkurl:concert posters.;https://www.flickr.com/photos/biologyposters/ Each biology "gig" poster is hand screen-printed by Chapel Hill's linkurl:The Merch,;https://www.themerch.net/index.html a design duo that usually creates band posters and t-shirts, rather than biology bulletins. linkurl:Bob Goldstein,;https://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;https://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.
**__Related stories:__***linkurl:Pimp my poster;https://www.the-scientist.com/article/display/55029/
[October 2008]*linkurl:The future of scientific meetings;https://www.the-scientist.com/article/display/23398/
[May 2006]*linkurl:The one-stop print shop;https://www.the-scientist.com/article/display/13209/
[19th August 2002]
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