Dr. Christine O’Connell, Associate Director of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science, shares tips for connecting with your audience and getting your point across. Working in ocean and environmental science to policy and advocacy, O’Connell saw ho ...
Times Insider recently published the results of an experiment they conducted on The New York Times website. Mark Bulik, a senior editor, worked with the web team to simultaneously display two different headlines for the same article on New York Times hom ...
From the Public Understanding of Science initiative in the mid-1950s, to decades-later controversy about nuclear power and genetically modified crops, the public has become increasingly aware and involved in decisions about science. Of course, democrati ...
As part of COMPASS, writer Nancy Barron joined Dr. Dietram Scheufele, a communication expert at the University of Wisconsin – Madison on the public and political interfaces of emerging science in advance of his keynote address at the 2016 North American C ...
Sense About Science writer Neda Afsarmanesh recently participated in the first 2016 Public Engagement Workshop for Scientists at California Institute of Technology. Scientists came from within the university as well as from the nearby Jet Propulsion Labo ...
Original on www.npr.org Like so many brilliant innovations, the idea seems obvious in hindsight. Just combine college, coffee, and chemical engineering. Of course! But no one, apparently, hit upon this magic formula until a few years ago, when William Ris ...
Alan Alda, Patrick Dempsey, Noah Wyle, Lisa Edelstein and Donald Faison may have only starred as TV doctors, but the actors are returning to their scrubs and medical coats more recently in an effort to save lives nationwide. Alan Alda, who played Captain ...
Original on www.smithsonianmag.com Mario Livio is an astrophysicist and author who worked on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) for over two decades. Born in Romania and raised in Israel, he studied physics and mathematics, theoretical physics, and theoreti ...
Original from insights.samsung.com With much of the focus in recent years on implementing the electronic health record (EHR), we’ve seen improvements in quality of care and have established technology platforms for streamlining operations to enhance the p ...
Original on news.tulane.edu In 2014, the Tulane program A Studio in the Woods started the ‘Flint and Steel: Cross Disciplinary Combustion’ residency program, which partnered artists with academic scholars. Many of these residencies serve to illustrate tha ...
