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 […]
By: Caitlin Burgdorf, BS (Current PhD candidate at Weill Cornell) In February of 2019, the annual meeting of American Association for the Advancement of Science held in Washington D.C addressed science policy topics and instructed attendees on ways to communicate these issues to influential stakeholders. During one session, Amy and […]
