By Caitlin Burgdorf, PhD Featured Panelists (left to right): Peter Leipig, MS, Education Program Coordinator at Sciencenter (Ithaca, NY) Lucy Madden, MS, Founding CEO of Letters to a Pre-Scientist (Cambridge, MA) Lisa Larson, BA, Lead Programmer of Citizen Science at The Cornell Lab of Ornithology (Ithaca, NY) […]
By Rosa J. Chen Image: Austin Distel on Unsplash This past August, Cornell University graduate students hosted the annual ComSciCon-NY, a science communication conference comprised of a series of workshops and panels. Fifty attendees, including students and postdocs from various institutions across the state, gathered at Cornell’s Ithaca campus […]
By Pooja Naik, MS Speakers: Caitlin Vander Weele, PhD; Ana Maria Porras, PhD; Shannon Odell, BA I had never considered using social media for science communication—it was actually what I used to procrastinate working on my science—until I attended the ComSciCon workshop at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY this August. […]
By Elizabeth Zale, BA Among the insights relayed during ComSciCon 2019’s Science Policy Panel, an important take-home message rang clear: What defines a good scientist is changing. It is no longer sufficient to execute precise bench work, reach statistical significance, and publish academic articles. In order to keep our […]
