Overview of the Poster Awards

Overview of the Poster Awards T he National Outreach Scholarship Conference has long provided a venue for the presentation of posters representing innovative research, effective practices, and impactful programs. In 2011, conference planners developed a series of measures focused on enriching the poster session as a platform for showcasing community-based scholarship and university outreach. A number of the changes were implemented to enhance the experience of the poster sessions for presenters and attendees of the conference. These changes included: • organizing two distinct poster sessions, each with a different line-up of posters;