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Originally Published August 26, 2014 ComSciCon Organizer and MIT Physical Chemisty PhD student Kara Manke has returned to Cambridge after serving as a AAAS Mass Media Fellow this summer at National Public Radio headquarters in Washington DC. AAAS Mass Media Fellows spend 10 weeks at the front lines of science communication, working as journalists for news agencies…

Originally Published June 14, 2014 ComSciCon 2014 featured the first-ever American Scidol competition, which featured 10 brave ComSciCon attendees presenting short, digestible “pop talks” of their research for the public – and for the judges – at the MIT museum. Held on Saturday afternoon, after all the panels, meals, and main events, American Scidol gave…

Originally Published June 4, 2014 Join ComSciCon ’14 attendees as they present one-minute “pop talks” describing their research and compete to be the next American Sci-dol! This event will take place on Saturday afternoon, June 14 from 2:00-3:30 pm at the MIT Museum. Techniques and tips for science communication will also be discussed in a…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…