Service-learning (SL) helps engineering students to be involved in community activities and to be motivated by their studies. Although several reviews and research studies have been …
Scientists, policy makers and journalists are three key, interconnected players involved in prioritizing and implementing solutions to mitigate the consequences of anthropogenic …
Scholars and pundits alike argue that US scientists could do more to reach out to the general public. Yet, to date, there have been few systematic studies that examine how …
S Laursen, C Liston, H Thiry, J Graf - CBE—Life Sciences …, 2007 - Am Soc Cell Biol
Many short-duration science outreach interventions have important societal goals of raising science literacy and increasing the size and diversity of the science workforce. Yet, these …
Arguably, the dissemination of science communication has recently entered a new age in which science must compete for public attention with fake news, alternate facts, and …
A Decker, MM McGill - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCSE Technical …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Europe, Australia, and North America face two similar challenges with respect to computing-- there have not been enough students matriculating to keep up with demand and the lack of …
Abstract Development of skills in science communication is a well‐acknowledged gap in graduate training, but the constraints that accompany research (limited time, resources, and …
Using data from interviews with 133 physicists and biologists working at elite research universities in the United States, we analyze narratives of outreach. We identify discipline …
Science communication research has tended to focus on the perceptions of the public and has often neglected the views of scientists. This article analyzes public outreach and …