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The Taubman Museum of Art, in partnership with the Communicating Science Club at Virginia Tech, hosted the kickoff event for a new project called Science on Canvas, providing graduate students with activities to practice communication techniques and be creative. Frankie … Continue reading
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The place to begin birdwatching? In your own backyard! This was the central message of October’s New River Valley Science on Tap event, “Bird Where You Live.” Virginia Tech biosciences graduate students Amber Wendler and Marissa Langager introduced some basic … Continue reading
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When you consider energy justice, what comes to mind? What would a just energy system look like? Three Virginia Tech faculty members, Drs. Christine Labuski, Cara Daggett, and Shannon Bell, hope to provide a clearer picture of what equity and … Continue reading
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The 5th anniversary of the opening celebration for the Center for Communicating Science is approaching, and we are making plans! Please mark your calendars for March 16 through 22 and join us for Communicating Science Week. Our goal is to … Continue reading
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Happy Autumn! We have a lot to report about all of our spring and summer activities, events, and news. We are thrilled and grateful to announce that the Fralin Life Sciences Institute has joined the Institute for Society, Culture, and … Continue reading
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Thirteen artists. Thirteen scientists. One Zoom room. And so many great ideas! On May 17 a group of diverse-minded, goal-oriented, and straight-up fun people spent a whole day being guided through exercises that explored each participant’s field of interest. From talks … Continue reading
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Can you explain your work to a 5-year-old? What do you see when someone asks you to picture a scientist? How do you think children respond when someone prompts them to draw a scientist? These were among the questions addressed … Continue reading
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The Center for Communicating Science is funding and supporting an oral history project this year. Oral history narratives are created through interviews with subjects, or narrators, with “the conscious intention of creating a permanent record to contribute to an understanding … Continue reading
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We are always grateful for and inspired by all the great work that graduate students associated with the Center for Communicating Science have done and continue to do. We want to acknowledge some of them here—and know we will certainly … Continue reading
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The Center for Communicating Science at Virginia Tech would like to introduce two of our newest post-MFA fellows, Laura Epperson and Mason Rosenthal. Both Epperson and Rosenthal joined the School of Performing Arts here in Blacksburg this fall following their … Continue reading