Poster Session Research Excellence Badge

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A research excellence badge drawn as a small poster: a RESEARCH banner, a bar chart with one highlighted bar and a pinned board number card.

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Updated 30 October 2026 · Designed by the Hyperstack studio

See it where it lives

Drawn to read at small sizes

A badge is mostly seen small. These are its real sizes on screen.

On a profile

120 px

In a list of badges

64 px

In an email signature

40 px

What is on it

A badge people are proud to show

You write once

The same for everyone. Keep the template’s words or change them.

Badge words: Research

Filled in for each person

Hyperstack fills these from your list when you send.

The recipient’s name and the award, in the badge’s verified record
The issue date and a credential ID
A link anyone can click to verify it

Specifications

Sizes, fonts and colours

Sizes

Badge: 470 × 470 px, round · Reads at 120 px on a profile

Fonts

Spectral: Title, Text, Recipient name
Source Sans 3: Labels

Google Fonts, free for commercial use.

Colours

Paper#f9f6ef
Ink#1a2840
Accent#1f3a5f
Second accent#b5852e
Muted text#5a6373

Change any colour in the studio.

Design notes

The badge reads as a small poster seen front-on. An ink-blue banner carries the word RESEARCH over an ochre rule, a figure with error bars puts one ochre bar under a bracket and an asterisk, and an EXCELLENCE strip closes the foot, with a pinned P-14 board card on the corner. The words stay clear at thumbnail size on a profile, in a digital wallet or in an email signature, and the badge matches the landscape and portrait certificates of the same set.

About

Research Award Badge Template, Poster Session

Undergraduate research programs, summer research internships and fellowships often close with a poster session. Each student stands beside a board, walks visitors through the question, the method and the result, and answers questions from faculty. A research excellence badge marks the students whose work stood out across that cycle: a sharp question, careful data and an honest account of what the results show. Departments, honours colleges and undergraduate research offices award it after the session or at the end-of-term showcase.

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Words that go with it

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Email to send with it

Subject: name, your research excellence award is ready

Hi name,

Congratulations. Your project stood out this year, from the question you chose to the way you presented your findings, and the program has recognised it with a certificate of excellence in research.

Your certificate is ready to open. Download a copy to print, add it to your CV or graduate school applications, and share it on LinkedIn so your network can see the work you did.

Thank you for the care you put into your research, and well done.

Hyperstack fills in each person’s name and link when it sends.

Post for the recipient to share

I'm proud to receive a research excellence award from my undergraduate research program. Over the term I designed my own study, worked through the literature, collected and analysed the data, and presented the results at our poster session. Thank you to my supervisor for the guidance and the honest feedback along the way. #research #undergraduateresearch

Recipients share it with one click from their credential page, with the badge attached.

Certificate or badge?

Send both. They do different jobs.

Certificate

A full record: name, statement, skills, dates and signatures
Printed and framed, or kept as a PDF
Opens to a page anyone can verify

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Digital badge

A small image people put on LinkedIn and in email signatures
Carries the verified details inside it (Open Badges 2.0)
One click shows who earned it and who issued it

How to send it

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Send it
Each person gets an email and their own credential page, in one go.
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They share it
Recipients add it to LinkedIn; anyone can verify it from the QR code.