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 COVID Communication to Keep Local Communities Up to Date
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Community Engagement SciComm at School: Science Communication in Undergraduate Education
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 Anatomy
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 Twitter
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 Science
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 Science
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!
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 Approach
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 Page
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 Campuses
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 flies
Communicating scientific research to the public including relevant decision makers is important in order to build trust and to sustain a political…
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Community Engagement Peter Hotez: Defending Vaccines
Back in the 1980s, when I was an MD/PhD student in New York, I learned a lot about biochemistry and molecular…