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Sustainability Week 2020 kicks off September 20 with a trail work service project, ends September 26 with a bike parade, and offers a wide variety of virtual and in-person opportunities for community members to engage with issues of sustainability and … Continue reading
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The Center for Communicating Science is thrilled to have on board for fall semester two undergraduate student interns, Catherine Watling and Sarah Propst, and for the 2020-2021 academic year a graduate assistant, Lilly Weber. We asked them to introduce themselves: … Continue reading
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With public schools going online or sending home paper packets, how do you get kindergarteners excited about science? How do you let them know that girls can be scientists? For the past three years, Girls Launch! has connected kindergarten children … Continue reading
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An arts-science collaboration performance piece created by Daniel Bird Tobin, faculty fellow with the Center for Communicating Science (CCS), was presented August 1 at the 2020 conference of the Association of Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE). Tobin and CCS faculty … Continue reading
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What does breaking up a “toad couple” mean to a scientist? To Korin Jones, it meant a normal day turned into an awkward situation. Jones, a Ph.D. student at Virginia Tech studying the skin microbiome of frogs, visits wetlands and … Continue reading
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At the Center for Communicating Science, we often interact with researchers who want to communicate more effectively. But increasingly we also meet students and others who are exploring the possibility of a career in science communication. The recent ComSciCon-UVA, organized … Continue reading
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Women scientists recently got together for a panel discussion on science outreach at the University of Virginia’s first-ever ComSciCon to discuss ways to improve science outreach and bring science to life, making STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) topics accessible … Continue reading
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Science communication researchers Dr. John Besley and Dr. Anthony Dudo want scientists to be the trusted “smart friend” that people turn to with questions and problems. That goal, along with many tips for effective communication, was articulated in “Strategic Science … Continue reading
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In everything we do, we aim to help people develop skills that help them to be more personal, direct, spontaneous, responsive, and emotionally expressive in their communication. We facilitate workshops and teach courses that are highly interactive and based on … Continue reading
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Amber Wendler, a biological sciences Ph.D. student studying the behavior of tropical birds, was one of the organizers of the May 31-June 6 social media movement #BlacksBirdersWeek. Spurred by a May 25 Central Park incident in which a Black birdwatcher … Continue reading