April is Citizen Science Month! In this post, graduate student Mandy Dees illustrates the work of Dr. Gabriel Filipelli and how research…
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Community Engagement Decreasing Pollution Distribution in the CommunityRead more
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Community Engagement COVID Communication to Keep Local Communities Up to DateRead more
In March of this year I started posting a daily COVID update for the state of Indiana on Facebook: Hoosier COVID-19 Update. It has…
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Community Engagement SciComm at School: Science Communication in Undergraduate EducationRead more
More and more, academic science programs at U.S. universities are training their undergraduates to communicate effectively about science to a variety of…
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Community Engagement Zombies! An Effective Way to Sink Your Teeth into Brain AnatomyRead more
Halloween is about a month away. How are you going to make science an integral part of Halloween? Our guest writer for…
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Community Engagement A nifty guide for academics on using TwitterRead more
Have you recently ventured into the murky world of Twitter but have no idea what to do next? Are you using…
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Community Engagement Radio Conversations: The Art of Radio Communication of ScienceRead more
Our guest writer for this piece is Mark Kesling. Mark is the founder and CEO of The daVinci Pursuit, an Indianapolis-based non-profit…
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Community Engagement Hashtag SciComm: How Social Media Platforms Are Shaping the Future of ScienceRead more
Early in school, we are introduced to the scientific method as a stepwise process of experimentation used to answer questions that have…
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Collaboration between scientists How your science communication can turn multi-lingual!Read more
Active participation in science communication is important. However, it tends to be time consuming and not the highest of our priorities…
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Community Engagement STEM-Themed Books for Kids: A New ApproachRead more
In the not too distant past, children’s book publishers produced just one kind of nonfiction—survey books that provide a general introduction to…
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Community Engagement The Power of Picture Books: Finding Ways to Bring Meaningful Nonfiction Facts to the PageRead more
Numbers are boring. Perhaps not to everyone, but to the majority of kids, numbers don’t stand a chance. Not against spiders or…
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Community Engagement HPV Vaccination is Not Just for Kids: Communicating Effectively to Promote Cancer Prevention on College CampusesRead more
Today, March 4, 2019 is the second annual International HPV Awareness Day, which aims to promote education and awareness about the human…
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Community Engagement An objective-driven long-term initiative to communicate fundamental science to various target audiences – a case study in fruit fliesRead more
Communicating scientific research to the public including relevant decision makers is important in order to build trust and to sustain a political…