Outreach/broader impacts workshop on campus March 28
Innovative Broader Impacts in Research Projects Thursday, March 28 - 12:40 – 2:00 p.m. - MUB Room 203 Presenters: Lynnette Hentges, Research Development & Communications; Lisa Townson and Ken...
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This article on “framing” science posted on SciDev.net offers lessons for both scientists, and science journalists. Once again, something I found out about via the Sigma Xi SmartBrief email. I think...
View ArticleReef biodiversity: here today but…
…the future doesn’t look bright. Becky Oskin, a staff writer at OurAmazingPlanet, describes A vast array of new species … recently discovered in the world’s most spectacular reef you’ve never heard of,...
View ArticleThe most important thing to get across
To me, what we’ve been calling “outreach” is pretty much continuous with what we call “teaching” – it’s just a matter of audience. So the bottom line about what, in the end, I want to communicate...
View ArticleFinding the hook for a genome story
A vintage brass hook – might not work for a genome story(found at http://www.etsy.com/listing/116624345/vintage-brass-ram-or-goat-head-wall-hook) This article in The Scientist has a series of short...
View ArticleNSF grad challenge
NSF figures, correctly, that current STEM grad students are probably the people with the best ideas about what innovations are needed in graduate education. So they’re offering prize money (fortune as...
View ArticleSharks in school, part 1
I don’t do formal outreach activities (I keep thinking I should sign up for the UNH Speakers’ Bureau, but I haven’t yet). But I do visit my kids’ schools in Dover to do science stuff, partly because I...
View ArticleWhat does scicomm have to do with misconduct?
In relation to the coming week’s class, Julie Simpson just sent me a recent Nature comment that makes the connection: “Redefine misconduct as distorted reporting.” Author Daniele Fanelli argues that...
View ArticleVisual communication followup
What follows is an idiosyncratic compilation of my personal observations and questions from Angela DePace’s workshop and seminar in SciComm; for Vaughn’s notes, go here . Specific things: The handout...
View ArticleWhat is translational epistemology?
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View Articleblog about blogging
M.C. Escher, 1948: Drawing hands What’s a blog good for? A self-referential post. It depends on who you are, and what your agenda is. There are probably infinite answers. Here’s what blogging in this...
View ArticleOpen access: time to get on the bus?
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View ArticleReef biodiversity: here today but…
…the future doesn’t look bright. Becky Oskin, a staff writer at OurAmazingPlanet, describes A vast array of new species … recently discovered in the world’s most spectacular reef you’ve never heard of,...
View ArticleThe most important thing to get across
To me, what we’ve been calling “outreach” is pretty much continuous with what we call “teaching” – it’s just a matter of audience. So the bottom line about what, in the end, I want to communicate...
View ArticleFinding the hook for a genome story
A vintage brass hook – might not work for a genome story(found at http://www.etsy.com/listing/116624345/vintage-brass-ram-or-goat-head-wall-hook) This article in The Scientist has a series of short...
View ArticleNSF grad challenge
NSF figures, correctly, that current STEM grad students are probably the people with the best ideas about what innovations are needed in graduate education. So they’re offering prize money (fortune as...
View ArticleSharks in school, part 1
I don’t do formal outreach activities (I keep thinking I should sign up for the UNH Speakers’ Bureau, but I haven’t yet). But I do visit my kids’ schools in Dover to do science stuff, partly because I...
View ArticleWhat does scicomm have to do with misconduct?
In relation to the coming week’s class, Julie Simpson just sent me a recent Nature comment that makes the connection: “Redefine misconduct as distorted reporting.” Author Daniele Fanelli argues that...
View ArticleVisual communication followup
What follows is an idiosyncratic compilation of my personal observations and questions from Angela DePace’s workshop and seminar in SciComm; for Vaughn’s notes, go here . Specific things: The handout...
View ArticleWhat is translational epistemology?
I recently took part in the UNH Honors Program’s first “20/20 Night,” in which several faculty members spoke briefly about our current research. Figuring out how to explain a new philosophical idea to...
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