Join a panel of speakers to be inspired about how as a graduate student or postdoc you could take advantage of opportunities to engage in communication of your research, science in general, and best of all, share your passion with public audiences! Q&A and informal discussion will follow.

Learn about the wide range of opportunities for incorporating public engagement and science communication in your professional activities. Speakers will share how they got into science communication, reasons why they continue to do so, opportunities and challenges integrating communication activities as a doctoral student or postdoc. The panelists will also share specific skill to work on that are useful elsewhere, and goals they have for future science communication activities. There will be opportunities to ask questions of the panelists and informal discussion will follow.

This public panel session kicks off the COMM5660 weekend 1 credit workshop led by Bruce Lewenstein, Professor of Science Communication and Cornell Ombuds.

Panelists

Steve Strogatz, Winokur Distinguished Professor of Public Understanding of Science and Mathematics

Lisa Kaltenegger, Associate Professor of Astronomy and Director, Carl Sagan Institute

Facundo Torres, PhD student in microbiology, science rapper

and a staff member TBA from the Sciencenter

Supported by Cornell’s Department of Communication and Careers Beyond Academia in the Graduate School.