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 Radio Conversations: The Art of Radio Communication of Science
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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…
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Community Engagement The Art of Service Design in Science
To whom are you accountable? This deceptively simple question is one worth asking if you’re a researcher. This week we share the…
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Community Engagement The Nexus of Data and Community: How Partnership Can Close Achievement Gaps
States across the U.S. (like our home state of Indiana) are making strides to better understand and close the racial achievement gaps…
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Community Engagement How to communicate basic research in schools – a case study using Drosophila
The Manchester Fly Facility maintains an objective-driven, long-term science communication initiative which started in 2011 and promotes the importance of fundamental biomedical…
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Community Engagement Power to the Patients: Co-design of Community-based Research
According to a 2015 statistic, the leading causes of death among adolescents in the US are unintentional accidents, suicide, and homicide. However…