The competition consisted of 19 categories students could enter.
Texas Tech University's Graduate School hosted its 17th annual poster competition on April 10, and winners were announced at a luncheon on April 30. Students could enter their posters into one of 19 categories. Below are the winners and runners-up for the 2018 competition by category:
Animal and Food Sciences
- First place: Alexander Branson
- Runner-up: Ilan Arvelo-Yagua
Biological Sciences
- First place: Mahsa Servati
- Runner-up: Meijun Mail Dong
Chemistry
- First place: Yun Zhou
- Runner-up: Amal Bouyanfif
Distance Learning
- First place: Karen Jensen
- Runner-up: Yujiro Fujiwara
Education
- First place: Sipra Eko
- Runner-up: Hyunchang Moon
Engineering
- First place: Saeed Moradi
- Runner-up: Osman Okuyucu
Environmental Design
- First place: Rafael Quijada and Emily Oliver
- Runner-up: Ahmed Gheraba
Environmental Science
- First place: Olushola Awoyemi
- Runner-up: Ilektra Drygiannaki
Health Sciences
- First place and best of conference: Md Jasim Uddin
- Runner-up: Shasika Jayarathne
Human Sciences
- First place: Kashmiere McGee
- Runner-up: Jennifer Rose
Interdisciplinary Studies
- First place: Bingbing Zhang
- Runner-up: Kelley Anderson
Kinesiology
- First place: Ahalee Cathey
- Runner-up: Thais Benoit
Natural Resources Management
- First place: Niwanthi Dissanayake Ralalage
- Runner-up: Katelyn Vedolich
Personal Financial Planning
- First place: Hossein Salehi
- Runner-up: Yi Liu
Physics
- First place: Giammarco Turriziani Colonna
- Runner-up: Kamal Lamichhane
Plant and Soil Science
- First place: Jaspreet Kaur
- Runner-up: Jayan Ukwatta
Political Science
- First place: Margaret Vugrin and Danie Vaughn
- Runner-up: James Bassett
Psychological Sciences
- First place: Leslie Dodson
- Runner-up: Yazmine Huizar
Visual and Performing Arts
- First place: Oryana Racines-Smakovic
- Runner-up: Norah Alqabbaa