Well, you've gotten to the final step of the Capstone experience, and it certainly is the 'capstone' of the course to showcase the work you've done to your classmates and to do so in a professional manner.

Poster presentations are the most common format for researchers to share their research with their peers. The advantage of poster presentations is that they allow many researchers who do similar work to share their findings in a self-paced environment. At professional conferences, poster presentations occur by subject area, and are hung on (typically) 4 by 8 feet pedestals in rows where people walk through and read the posters and ask the researcher questions.

View photos of IUPUI graduate students presenting their work at the Society of Behavioral Medicine's annual convention, and undergraduate students presenting in the department.

So how do you prepare a poster? This comprehensive tutorial prepared by Jeff Radel, Ph.D. of the University of Kansas Medical Center is a great reference.