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We are delighted to congratulate all 30 of the participants in the 2022 Nutshell Games! The enthusiastic audience in the Anne and Ellen Fife Theatre at the Moss Arts Center March 19 learned about brains and bugs, cancer and incarceration, … Continue reading
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What does it look like for science communication to empower? At a February 2022 event called “Flip the Fair,” organizers put power directly into the hands of elementary students, inviting them to judge graduate student science fair posters. The program … Continue reading
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Virginia Tech’s Center for Communicating Science celebrates its 5th anniversary in March, and our celebration includes a week’s worth of exhibitions, talks, workshops, and more. Please mark your calendars for March 16 through 23 and join us at one or … Continue reading
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“Hope lies in the capacity of stories to transform,” says author and scholar Dr. Elin Kelsey, and she’ll be sharing stories of hope with us at 8 p.m. Friday, March 18, at the Moss Arts Center. Kelsey’s talk, “Hope Matters: … Continue reading
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What can you sum up in 90 seconds? The Nutshell Games, first held at the opening of the Center for Communicating Science in 2017, asks graduate students to explain their research in that amount of time. Hosted by Virginia Tech’s … Continue reading
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For some of us, a plate of raw oysters is a delight. Others quickly head for a different appetizer. But oysters play much more important roles in the world than simply tempting or repelling human consumers. Interdisciplinary artist and Virginia … Continue reading
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How can dance benefit engineering graduate students? Can developmental psychology research be communicated by song? What does ping pong have to do with community wealth building? How does an art installation illuminate the impacts of invasive plants? Several months ago … Continue reading
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During Communicating Science Week 2022, a theatre student and a geosciences student will stage a reading of a play about climate change, social extremism, and rhinoceroses. Rhino 2020 will play at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 15, and again at … Continue reading
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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