Written by Jessica Rech an undergraduate student at IUPUI and coauthored by Brandi Gilbert, director of LHSI. I am an undergraduate student…
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Education Life-Health Sciences Internship: An Undergraduate OpportunityRead more
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Education Can Comics Improve Pre-College Science Education?Read more
As more learning occurs online and at home with the global pandemic, keeping students engaged in learning about science is a challenge…
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Education A Thriller Author Talks about How to Sell ScienceRead more
By Brad Parks A few years back, while driving to my favorite daily writing haunt, the local radio station spit out one…
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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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Education A Guide to Using the Scientific Method in Everyday LifeRead more
The scientific method—the process used by scientists to understand the natural world—has the merit of investigating natural phenomena in a rigorous manner. Working…
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Collaboration between scientists Unconferencing During a Pandemic: What One Science Educator LearnedRead more
I’m an undergraduate biology educator. In one of my courses, I teach about science communication strategies for biology students engaged in public…
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Education Top 6 Discoveries in Human Evolution, 2019 EditionRead more
Once again, as we wind down another year, we’ve invited Ella Beaudoin and Briana Pobiner from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural…
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Education Leonardo da Vinci: Renaissance Science CommunicatorRead more
Five hundred years ago (May 1519) in the Loire Valley town of Amboise, France, Leonardo da Vinci took his last breath. Throughout…
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Education ‘Peeling Away’ the Natural History of Gibbon Canine TeethRead more
Here we are again. Another Halloween, another piece about teeth. Why? Because teeth play a critical role in all sorts of Halloween-related…
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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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Education A Science Author’s “Eureka!” MomentRead more
I am not a scientist. You may be surprised to learn that has been the key to my 30-year career as a…
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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…