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October 23 — preparatory workshop for all Nutshell Games participants

October 24 — Science on Tap, Rising Silo Brewery, 5:30 p.m. "Evolutionary puzzles: How moving into new areas can change evolution." Join us to learn about processes of change in evolutionary biology. How does a population moving into a new area change how evolutionary puzzles are solved? Virginia Tech biological sciences Ph.D. student Caitlin Miller will share her expertise, and we’ll have a hands-on exploration of how range expansions can alter trait frequencies — and even the evolution of new species. Free and open to the public.

November 2  — The Nutshell Games! Save the date. Thirty Virginia Tech graduate students will speak at this fun and fast-paced research presentation competition. Competing for prizes, each researcher has just 90 seconds to explain their work to a panel of judges and a public audience. That's you! The event will be held in conjunction with Virginia Tech's Science Festival and will take place at the Moss Arts Center at 4:30 p.m. Free and open to the public.

You can read all about the Center for Communicating Science on our newsletter page. Here's some of what we've been up to recently:

10/3/2024 Presentation skills workshop for Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets

9/27/2024 "How to Present Research to a Wider Audience for Greater Impact,” a panel discussion hosted by Times Higher Education and featuring Center for Communicating Science director Patty Raun with 3 additional panelists

9/26/2024 Science on Tap, New River Valley (Mary Akers: Be the ocean: Getting hermit crabs to land)

9/26/2024 Flip the Fair, Melrose branch of the Roanoke Public Libraries

8/22/2024 Science on Tap, New River Valley (Sally Walker and Jason Pall: Growing Glade Road Growing) 

7/25/2024 Science on Tap, New River Valley (Connor Hughes: What makes a Home? Environmental modeling techniques help us understand where threatened species live)

7/23/2024 Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity summer camp Black Engineering Excellence at Virginia Tech (BEEVT) workshops

7/22/2024 Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity summer camp Black Engineering Excellence at Virginia Tech (BEEVT) workshops

7/19/2024 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,  University Partnership for Workforce Advancement and Research & Development in Semiconductors (UPWARDS) summer camp workshops 

7/18/2024 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University Partnership for Workforce Advancement and Research & Development in Semiconductors (UPWARDS) summer camp workshops 

7/17/2024 Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity summer camp Black Engineering Excellence at Virginia Tech (BEEVT) workshops

7/16/2024 Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity summer camp Black Engineering Excellence at Virginia Tech (BEEVT) workshops

7/10/2024 Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Global Teaching Scholars: Preparing Together for the Future of Higher Education (Communicating Your Research: Introduction to Applied Improvisation for Scientists workshop)

7/9/2024 Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity summer camp Computers and Technology at Virginia Tech (C-Tech^2) workshops

7/8/2024 Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity summer camp Computers and Technology at Virginia Tech (C-Tech^2) workshops

7/8/2024 Chemistry department's National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduate students program (REU), Students Transforming Energy and Environmental Research (STEER), communicating science workshop  

7/8/2024 Fralin Life Sciences Institute's Summer Undergraduate Research Fellows (SURF) program, communicating science workshop

7/8/2024 2024 International Conference on Plant Pathogenetic Bacteria and Biocontrol (Community Kaleidoscope workshop) 

7/3/2024 Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity summer camp Computers and Technology at Virginia Tech (C-Tech^2) workshops

7/2/2024 Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity summer camp Computers and Technology at Virginia Tech (C-Tech^2) workshops

6/27/2024 Science on Tap, New River Valley (Amy Hagen: Reading the rocks: What rocks tell us about the history of the Earth, in the NRV and beyond!)

6/26/2024 Applied Theatre Improvisation: Collaboration, Confidence, and Creativity (workshop for Black College Institute students)

6/24/2024 Chemistry department's National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduate students program (REU), Students Transforming Energy and Environmental Research (STEER), communicating science workshop

6/24/2024 Fralin Life Sciences Institute's Summer Undergraduate Research Fellows (SURF) program, communicating science workshop

6/22/2024 Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity summer camp staff workshops

6/19/2024 Applied Theatre Improvisation: Collaboration, Confidence, and Creativity (workshop for Black College Institute students)

6/17/2024 Chemistry department's National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduate students program (REU), Students Transforming Energy and Environmental Research (STEER), communicating science workshop

6/15/2024 Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity summer camp staff workshops

6/14/2024 Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity summer camp staff workshops

6/10/2024 Fralin Life Sciences Institute's Summer Undergraduate Research Fellows (SURF) program, communicating science workshop

6/4/2024-6/5/2024 2-day communicating science intensive for graduate students at Rutgers University’s Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, part of a National Science Foundation Research Training program 

5/12/2024 Communicating Science Case Competition, Egerton University, Kenya

2/16/2024-5/12/2024  Agricultural Productivity Enhancement and Communicating Science Project, a collaborative venture including the Center for Communicating Science (CCS), Virginia Tech's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Global Program, and Egerton University in Kenya 

04/25/2024 — Science on Tap (Emily Ellis: What the satellites see: Observing rivers from space)

03/28/2024 — Science on Tap (The Art, Science, and Politics of Breastfeeding, with a panel of breastfeeding experts)

03/21/24 "Distilling Your Message: Brief and Compelling Interactions with the People You Need to Talk to," a communicating science workshop for graduate student researchers in Virginia Tech's Translational Biology, Medicine, and Health program; biomedical engineering; the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers; and others.

03/20/24 "Dear Science" pilot project with Carlos Evia's School of Communication senior seminar in science communication. 

03/12/2024 "Communicating Science Beyond Posters, Pamphlets, and Videos," a workshop facilitated by CCS director Patty Raun for members of the Science, Health and Data Communications Research Centre at Bournemouth University in England. 

03/11/2024 “The Art of Connecting Across Difference: Improvisation for Research Communication,” a workshop facilitated by CCS director Patty Raun for members of the Science, Health and Data Communications Research Centre at Bournemouth University in England. 

03/06/2024 “Telling Your Research Story,” a communicating science workshop for researchers at Aberystwyth University in Wales. Facilitated by CCS director Patty Raun, the workshop is being hosted by Aberystwyth’s Dialogue Center.

03/01/2024 "Distilling Your Message," workshop for Virginia Tech's International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry's Global Women Breakfast.

1/26/2024 - 3/8/2024 "Collaborating and Connecting Across Differences," a 7-part series for faculty at California State University Northridge. 

2/26/2024  "Learning to Listen and Listening to Learn: An Experiential Workshop in Understanding," a professional development workshop for graduate students in the Department of History. 

2/24/2024 "Connecting Across Differences: Learning to Listen and Listening to Learn," a communication workshop for the 9th Annual Uplifting Black Men Conference

2/22/2024 Science on Tap (Matthew Reiss of Gnomestead Farm: Mushroom Cultivation in the New River Valley)

2/16/2024 Agricultural Sscience Communication Symposium and APECS Project Launch (a collaborative project with the Center for Communicating Science, CALS Global Program, and Egerton University in Kenya)

2/8/2024 Communicating with Public Audiences (communicating science workshop for the Neuroscience of Drug Addiction undergraduate course, School of Neuroscience) 

2/8/2024 Distilling Your Message (communicating science workshop for the graduate-level microbial physiology course in the Department of Biosciences) 

1/25/2024 Science on Tap (Jason Rutledge and Karen Snape: Hoofin' around: Keeping forestry sustainable with animal power and restorative practices) 

1/9/2024 Learning to Listen and Listening to Learn: An Experiential Workshop in Understanding (communicating science workshop for graduate students at the Northeastern Weed Science Society (NEWSS) meeting , Boston, January 7-11)

1/9/2024 Connecting Across Difference: Building Skills for Communicating with the Public (communicating science workshop for the Northeastern Weed Science Society (NEWSS) meeting , Boston, January 7-11)