Author: Amel Sassi

Originally Published August 1, 2016 Virtually all ComSciCon participants are striving to bring their own research to a wider audience, seeking to produce impacts that reverberate far beyond the limited group of specialists in their own academic field to the broader public.   Some ComSciCon grad students achieve this through interaction with mainstream media outlets…

Originally Published June 6, 2016 This post was written by Kayleigh O’Keeffe, a Ph.D. student in Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an organizer of the second annual ComSciCon-Triangle event which took place in North Carolina last month.  ComSciCon returned to the Research Triangle of North Carolina over two days in…

Originally Published February 13, 2016 One of the most exciting outcomes of our ComSciCon workshops is the enduring impacts that they have on the professional direction and nascent careers of our graduate student attendees. We touched base with Megan Litwhiler, an alum of two ComSciCon events, this week as she settles into her new position in Research…

Originally Published January 30, 2016 “Picture the flag on a pirate ship.  What do you see?”  This question opens the second episode of Bone Lab Radio, the new podcast co-founded by ComSciCon15 alumna Jenny Qi, a Graduate Student in Biomedical Sciences at UC San Francisco.  Like every episode of the Bone Lab, this hook thrusts the reader into a fascinating…

Originally Published January 9, 2016 For ComSciCon-15 National Workshop attendee Molly Gasperini, a Ph.D. student in Biology at the University of Washington, thinking about teaching and learning at the most fundamental level—the universal preparatory process of K12 education—is an everyday event.   Molly is the Outreach Coordinator for the Journal of Emerging Investigators, a graduate student-led open-access journal…

Originally Published on October 25, 2015 ComSciCon has issued its third annual report, documenting the organization of our 2015 flagship national workshop which took place in June, the launch of four new ComSciCon-local and specialized workshop franchises around the country, and evaluating the impacts of our programming through quantified outcomes, longitudinal reporting on several participants,…

Originally Published on September 24, 2015 Just two years on from the launch of ComSciCon, some of the longitudinal impacts of our programming on the graduate students who participate in ComSciCon workshops are already emerging.  Here we check in with one ComSciCon alumna whose tremendous talent and skill for science communication, amplified by the connections…

Originally Published September 1, 2015 By Karna Gowda,  Alicia Foxx, and Kevin Song, Organizers of ComSciCon-Chicago During the ComSciCon 2014 national workshop, organizers and attendees discussed the idea of ComSciCon workshops back to our home institutions. Nearly forty Chicago-area students had applied for the Cambridge workshop that year, but only a few could attend. To address this…

Originally Published July 22, 2015 The culminating session at the national ComSciCon workshop of 2014 had one goal in mind: appeal to attendees to hold a local version of the workshop back at their home institutions. This goal was necessary, given that at the time approximately 850 STEM graduate students from around the country had…

Originally Published June 11, 2015 As the 50 graduate students from around the country who were selected for the ComSciCon15 national workshop prepare to descend on Cambridge, MA, the full program for the workshop has been published online. The full schedule of events listed in the program is also available as an importable Google Calendar. The program provides…