To unthaw or to unthaw? That is the question. Introducing my favorite word in the English language, “unthaw” has two meanings; 1)…
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Community Engagement Eliminate Jargon! But what about definition differences?Read more
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Community Engagement Decreasing Pollution Distribution in the CommunityRead more
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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Public Science Communication Top 7 Discoveries in Human Evolution, 2021 EditionRead more
This year – 2021 – has been a year of progress in overcoming the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on human evolution…
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Public Science Communication Can Science Be Simple? Distilling Complexity into Engaging ImagesRead more
The COVID-19 pandemic sparked an explosion of research, breakthroughs, and collaboration within the scientific community. However, now that the clinical trials have…
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Education Life-Health Sciences Internship: An Undergraduate OpportunityRead more
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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Public Science Communication Bright ClubRead more
By day, Rebecca Shepherd is a very serious PhD candidate at Lancaster University, UK, where she researches the role of fat cells…
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Public Science Communication Top 9 Discoveries in Human Evolution, 2020 EditionRead more
2020 has been… quite the year! The pandemic changed a lot about the world including the ways in which paleoanthropologists, archaeologists, and…
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Public Science Communication Talking about Science in a Pandemic: A Golden Opportunity for Science CommunicationRead more
I’ve always been fascinated by how things work. Did you watch Mr. Roger’s neighborhood while growing up? I loved the episode showing…
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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…