Author: Amel Sassi

  • ComSciCon-local writing featured in Harvard’s Colloquy

    ComSciCon-local writing featured in Harvard’s Colloquy

    Originally Published April 30, 2014 The Spring 2014 issue of Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences’ Colloquy magazine featured the writing of four ComSciCon-local attendees.  Kate Boronow, Holly Elmore, Grigori Goutchounts, and Florence Yong all had pieces published as part of a series focusing on the research of Harvard graduate students – “Telling…

  • Application now open for ComSciCon’14 national workshop

    Application now open for ComSciCon’14 national workshop

    We are pleased to announce that the graduate student application for the next ComSciCon national workshop, to take place June 12-14th of 2014, is now open.  Visit our application page to access the application form and apply online. The June 2014 ComSciCon event will be our second annual national workshop for graduate students.   Our series of…

  • Kestenbaum keynote address concludes ComSciCon-local

    Kestenbaum keynote address concludes ComSciCon-local

    Originally Published January 24, 2014 A standing-room only audience packed Harvard’s Geological Lecture Hall to hear NPR reporter David Kestenbaum‘s keynote address for the ComSciCon-local workshop on Friday evening. David spoke about his experience with NPR’s Planet Money team, where he uses innovative journalistic methods to make the brutally complicated processes and interactions of the world economy…

  • ComSciCon included in top five “Science Marketing Hits” of 2013

    Originally Published January 1, 2014 Marc Kuchner, founder of the Marketing for Scientists collaboration and author of the book of the same name, selected the ComSciCon workshop series as #3 in his list of the Top Five Science Marketing Hits of 2013.  Marc advises potential graduate student applicants that ComSciCon “workshops are not merely free; they come with travel…

  • David Kestenbaum to deliver keynote at January 2014 ComSciCon-local workshop

    David Kestenbaum to deliver keynote at January 2014 ComSciCon-local workshop

    Originally Published December 18, 2013 We are delighted to announce that NPR and Planet Money reporter David Kestenbaum will join us in Cambridge, MA on January 24th to deliver the keynote address for the January 2014 ComSciCon-local workshop.   David Kestenbaum has been a correspondent for NPR since 1999, covering science, energy and now the global economy for NPR’s multimedia project Planet…

  • A ComSciCon-local event for Harvard and MIT students in January 2014

    A ComSciCon-local event for Harvard and MIT students in January 2014

    Originally Published November 21, 2013 We are pleased to announce that, in addition to our 2014 national workshop, ComSciCon will hold a second Communicating Science workshop specifically for Harvard and MIT graduate students in January of 2014.  We have an exciting program of events planned.  Like our summer workshops, attendees will interact with graduate student leaders in technical communication from the…

  • Announcing the June 2014 Communicating Science Workshop

    Announcing the June 2014 Communicating Science Workshop

    Originally Published November 20, 2013 We are glad to announce that we will hold our annual national Communicating Science (ComSciCon) workshop in June of 2014!   This will be the second in our series of workshops providing a unique professional development experience to graduate students engaged in and committed to communicating the results of research in science and…

  • Celebrating the success of ComSciCon’13

    Celebrating the success of ComSciCon’13

    Originally Published October 1, 2013 To celebrate the success of our inaugural 2013 Communicating Science workshop (ComSciCon’13), we are posting a report reflecting on the workshop and summarizing the lasting outcomes of the event that have emerged since June.  This includes a survey of the 50 phenomenal graduate students who attended the workshop, the 21…

  • Harvard Gazette: Science, front and center

    Harvard Gazette: Science, front and center

    By Chuck Leddy, Harvard Correspondent Originally Published June 17, 2023 Harvard Gazette: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/06/science-front-and-center/ It’s one thing to conduct good science. It’s another to get people to notice. “We are trying to empower graduate students to communicate science so that they can tell others about the research they’re doing,” said Nathan Sanders, a third-year graduate student in Harvard’s…