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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…

Originally Published May 8, 2015 By Sheena Faherty, Organizing Committee Member of ComSciCon-Triangle 2015 This year, the national ComSciCon workshop received about 1,000 applications from grad students around the country—and only 50 spots for lucky science communicators. Clearly, graduate students are voracious for training in science communication skills. This prompted the national ComSciCon organizers to put out a…

Originally Published March 2, 2015The application period for the ComSciCon 2015 national workshop has now ended, and nearly 1000 graduate students from universities across the United States have applied to attend. The applications are under review now by our graduate student Organizing Committee, with admissions announcements to be made on March 23rd.  With more than…

Originally Published January 1, 2015 Graduate students from all US institutions with an interest in science communication are encouraged to apply now to the ComSciCon-2015 national workshop, to be held June 18-20 in Cambridge, MA! The third in our annual series of workshops for graduate students nationwide, ComSciCon 2015 will be held June 18 – 20th in Cambridge, MA.…

Originally Published December 3, 2014 We are excited to announce the launch of three new ComSciCon-local workshops being organized throughout the country by ComSciCon graduate student alumni.   Like the ComSciCon-local event we ran in Cambridge, MA in January of 2014, these events will be specifically tailored for and exclusively targeted to students in a particular geographic…

Originally Published November 17, 2014 We are very pleased to formally announce the next three events in our ComSciCon national workshop series, to take place in the summers of 2015, 2016, and 2017!   These events are possible thanks to generous support from the Graduate School of Arts and Science, Faculty of Arts and Science, and Office of…

Originally Published October 20, 2014 We are excited to announce that ComSciCon organizer Dr. Susanna Kohler will be joining the American Astronomical Society (AAS) as their new Science Highlights Editor.   Susanna has been a key member of the ComSciCon Organizing Committee since we began our work in 2012.  Susanna recently graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder…

Originally Published September 7, 2014 As we did after last year’s ComSciCon workshop, we have now released a document that summarizes and reflects upon the activities and outcomes of the ComSciCon 2014 National Leadership Workshop. The event brought together 50 of the brightest graduate student science communicators from around the country to participate in panel discussions,…