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Originally Published March 16, 2020 At the end of 2019, a group of graduate students set off to State College, PA to participate in ComSciCon-SciWri 2019, a special program held in partnership between ComSciCon, the National Association of Science Writers (NASW), and the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing (CASW) at the ScienceWriters2019 Annual Meeting.  ScienceWriters always…

Originally Published February 28, 2020 by Edna Chiang **Editor’s note: This post is part of a series highlighting members of the ComSciCon community who recently attended the AAAS Annual Meeting, which took place from February 13-16, 2020 in Seattle, WA. Spinal cord injuries affect ~17,810 people each year in the U.S.1 and can leave surviving patients…

Originally Published February 26, 2020by Ellen Brennan **Editor’s note: This post is part of a series highlighting members of the ComSciCon community who recently attended the AAAS Annual Meeting, which took place from February 13-16, 2020 in Seattle, WA. The past decade has seen enormous landscape transformations, whether from the expansion of agriculture, wildfires like…

Originally Published February 24, 2020 by Rose Hendricks *Editor’s note: This post is part of a series highlighting members of the ComSciCon community who recently attended the AAAS Annual Meeting, which took place from February 13-16, 2020 in Seattle, WA. In Puerto Rico, rice and beans (“arroz y habichuelas”) are a unifying meal — whether…

Originally Published February 10, 2020by Clair Geary Over the last century, deaths and disability from infectious diseases have declined, largely due to improvements in sanitation, nutrition, and vaccines. These days, we often hear more about the hypothetical risks of vaccination rather than the very real dangers posed by the diseases these vaccines prevent. Increasing numbers of worried parents now…

Originally Published February 3, 2020 It’s a new year, and new things are coming to comscicon.com! We are thrilled to introduce ComSciConversation: a ComSciCon blog and publication outlet for our Flagship and Chapter workshops. Each ComSciCon workshop incorporates an interactive session that we call the “write-a-thon.” This session aims to give participants a chance to practice their…

Originally Published January 2, 2020 With 2019 now concluded, we are excited to publish our annual report on ComSciCon’s Flagship international workshop.  This includes not only a detailed review of the activities of that event, but also an overview of the achievements of ComSciCon’s student organizers throughout the US and Canada in 2019 and a snapshot of…

Originally Published October 15, 2019 2019 has been a year of great firsts for ComSciCon.  We had our first event in Canada, our first event in Florida, our first event just for physical scientists, our first event at Virginia Tech, and those are just the new franchises that have become part of the ComSciCon community. But part of the…

Originally Published June 25, 2019 ComSciCon is a national workshop series organized by graduate students, for graduate students, focused on leadership and training in science communication. Our goal is to empower young scientists to become leaders in their field, propagating appreciation and understanding of research results to broad and diverse audiences. With your support, we can…

Originally Published December 10, 2018 Thanks to the ongoing support of our student attendees, our student organizers and leaders, and our generous sponsoring institutions, looking on back on 2018 means celebrating a year of new firsts and successes for ComSciCon. We celebrate our first international flagship conference in 2018, when we welcomed students from both…