By Elizabeth Fusco, edited by Michael Liesen Infection and pandemics have never been more relevant globally, and zombies have long been used…
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Public Science Communication The Science of Zombies: “The Last of Us” and Beyond
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Public Science Communication Top 14 Discoveries in Human Evolution, 2022 Edition
This year—2022—has been another exciting year for research in human evolution. With many projects around the world proceeding despite the COVID pandemic…
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Community Engagement Eliminate Jargon! But what about definition differences?
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 Decreasing Pollution Distribution in the Community
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 Edition
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 Images
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 Opportunity
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 Club
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 Edition
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 Communication
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?
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 Science
By Brad Parks A few years back, while driving to my favorite daily writing haunt, the local radio station spit out one…