The AAAS Student Poster Competition provides the opportunity for individuals to present their research and offers an excellent venue for extended informal discussion with meeting attendees.

Accepted posters will be listed in the 2009 AAAS Annual Meeting Poster Book. The names of the winners will be published in Science.

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Submission Deadline: 23 October 2008

• The competition recognizes the individual efforts of students actively working toward a college-level degree. Entrants must be either an undergraduate or graduate student. Doctoral candidates and post-doctoral scholars are not eligible to enter.
  
  
• Submitters and their advisers must certify that the research and posters involved only the work of students. Posters that do not meet this criteria will be disqualified.
  
  
• Entrants are required to be present for a designated judging period. Assignments are given onsite at check-in for the poster session.