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June 17 through July 28, Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity summer camp workshops for skill building in leadership, communication, and collaboration.

July 27, 5:30 p.m. Science on Tap: A Reptile Show and Tell with John Muller. Rising Silo Brewery, 2351 Glade Road, Blacksburg.  

July 13 through August 6, 2022 German Fulbright Program: Connecting, Communicating, and Collaborating Across Differences: New Approaches for Applied Sciences, on campus at Virginia Tech. 

Here's some of what we've been up to recently:

6/28/2022 Introduction to Improvisation for Scientists, a workshop for visiting scholars from Universidad San Francisco de Quito in Ecuador and additional scholars from Chile and Guatemala

6/22/2022 Science on Tap, New River Valley (Building Soils for a Healthy Life)

5/2/2022 World premiere of In the Burrow of Science (2022), Charles Nichols (b. 1967) (7:55); Vanessa Diaz, research; Erika Meitner, poetry; Zach Duer, video; Ariana Wyatt, soprano; John Irrera, violin; Ben Wyatt, cello; Annie Stevens, marimba. 

4/27/2022 Science on Tap, New River Valley (Lyme Disease in the New River Valley with Dr. Brandon Jutras)

4/8/2022 Transfer Student Peer Mentors Program (LIstening, Imagining, Problem Solving with Transfer Student Experiences)

4/2/2022 Meadowbrook Public Library, "We Are Stardust: A Storytime Celebration of our Planet," a story time and art activity

Communicating Science Week! March 15-23: Click here for details about the celebration of the 5th anniversary of the Center for Communicating Science.

3/23/2022 Science on Tap, New River Valley ("Science! Music! Art! On Tap!" with speakers from Science on Canvas, Flip the Fair, Nutshell Games)

3/21/2022 Workshop: “How to Communicate Science in Your Job Search,” Alyssa Rametta

3/19/2022 Nutshell Games: 30 graduate students give 90-second talks to a panel of judges and a public audience

3/19/2022 Blacksburg Public Library, "We Are Stardust: A Storytime Celebration of our Planet," a take-and-make kit of activities and art supplies

3/19/2022 ComSciCon-VA Tech 2022, a graduate student conference designed to empower early career researchers to communicate complex and technical concepts to broad and diverse audiences

3/18/2022 Keynote Talk: "Hope Matters: Why Overcoming Doom and Gloom Is Essential to Achieving Climate Justice," Dr. Elin Kelsey

3/18/2022 Rhino 2020, a staged reading of a play by geosciences graduate student Ali Namayandeh exploring social unrest in the face of our changing climate

3/18/2022 Friday Friends: a conversation between author Elin Kelsey and illustrator Soyeon Kim

3/18/2022 SciArt Collaboration: “Building Personal Resilience for Engineers Through Dance Training,” Dr. Nina Stark and Rachel Rugh

3/18/2022 Developmental Psychology Brown Bag: "Communicating Science and Identity," Vanessa Diaz, Laura Epperson, and Mason Rosenthal

3/18/2022 SciArt Collaboration: “Thinking Like an Aspen: Enhancing Resiliency Through Transnational Coalitions,” Dr. Sweta Baniya and Daniel Bird Tobin 

3/18/2022 ICAT Play Date: "SciArt Fusion: Discoveries from Experiments in SciArt Collaboration" 

3/17/2022 SciArt Collaboration: “The Urgent Marvels of Coastal Science Exhibition,” Lynsey Grace Wyatt  and Dr. Nina Stark

3/17/2022 SciArt Collaboration: “Artistic Exploration of Children's Cognitive Development: Who Can Be a Scientist?” Dr. Vanessa Diaz, Zach Duer, Erika Meitner, Dr. Charles Nichols, Ariana Wyatt 

3/17/2022 SciArt Collaboration: "From Ping Pong to Community Wealth & Collaboration," Ralph Hall and Steven T. Licardi

3/16/2022 SciArt Collaboration: Discover Chub – Builders of Deerfield Trail

3/16/2022 SciArt Collaboration: Invasive Exegesis:Shedding Light on the Impacts of Invasive Plants in Appalachia 

3/4-3/6/2022 Science on Canvas at the Taubman Museum of Art.

2/25-27/2022 Science on Canvas at the Taubman Museum of Art. 

2/23/2022 Science on Tap, New River Valley (Dr. Andrea Bertke: A Virus Walks Into a Bar…)

2/18/2022 Virginia Tech Life Science Seminars (Communicating Science: Celebrating Opportunities and Outreach) 

2/5/2022 Flip the Fair, a graduate student-organized outreach program at the Melrose Branch Library in Roanoke

1/26/2022 Science on Tap, New River Valley (Dr. Ralph Hall and Steven T. Licardi: Exploring Community Wealth Building Through Performance Art)

12/1/2021 Introduction to Communicating Science workshop for Virginia Tech juniors and seniors in the course Cognitive Neuroscience

11/17/2021 Science on Tap, New River Valley (Korin Jones: Frog Microbiomes; Erin Ling: Blacksburg's 16 Frogs Project)

11/5/2021 Flip the Fair! Shaping Your Research for Children workshop

11/3/2021 Widening Inclusivity in the (Geo)Sciences presentation (Girls Launch! Providing Female Scientist Role Models to Early Elementary Children)

10/27/2021 Science on Tap, New River Valley (Amber Wendler and Marissa Langager: Bird Where You Live)

9/27/2021 University of Maine, Maine e-DNA, Communicating Science Symposium

9/27/2021 Introduction to Communicating Science workshop for the Preparing the Future Professoriate course

9/22/2021 Science on Tap, New River Valley (Shannon Bell, Christine Labuski, and Cara Daggett: Energy Justice: Why Solar Panels Aren't Enough)

9/10/2021 ICAT Play Date (Girls Launch! A Pandemic Response to Providing Female Scientist Role Models to Children)

9/3/2021 Department of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics (Introduction to Improvisation for Scientists)

9/1/2021 Virginia/Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, Topics in Human-Animal Interaction (Describing Basic Procedures, an Interactive Communication Workshop)

8/25/2021 Fralin Life Sciences Institute Communications, Marketing, & Branding Seminar

8/25/2021 Science on Tap, Kristin Rose Jutras: The Poetry of Science Communications

7/19/2021 - 8/13/2021 German Fulbright Summer Institute 2021, “Communicating Across Disciplines: New Approaches for Applied Sciences” 

7/28/2021 Science on Tap, Emmanuel Frimpong and Hiromi Okumura: The Art and Science of Stream Biodiversity

6/24/2021 Science on Tap, Abby Lewis: Oxygen: Stories of Fire, Beer, and the Guillotine

5/17/2021 SciArts Collaboration Incubator 

5/14/2021 Institute of Food Technologists (Effective Strategies to Communicate Science, an Interactive Workshop)

5/4/2021 Pinch-of-Practice Workshop (Make It Memorable's Hands-on PowerPoint: Learn How to Turn Theory into Practice)

4/29/2021 Pinch-of-Practice Workshop (Make It Memorable’s Decoding Slide Design: Using Science and Art to Make Powerful Visuals)

4/27/2021 Pinch-of-Practice Workshop (Make It Memorable’s Rethinking Presentations: Memorable and Influential Presentations)

4/22/2021 Science on Tap, New River Valley (Sweta Baniya, Minh Duong, Sara Richards, Jennifer Sano-Franchini, Khanh To, Na Xie: Asian & Pacific Islander in Academia: Research Stories and Successes)

4/22/2021 Pinch-of-Practice Workshop (The Story Collider's Crafting a Story of Your Research, Part 2)

4/20/2021 Pinch-of-Practice Workshop (The Story Collider's Crafting a Story of Your Research, Part 1)

4/15/2021 Pinch-of-Practice Workshop (The Story Collider’s Crafting Your Personal Science Story, Part 2) 

4/13/2021 Pinch-of-Practice Workshop (The Story Collider’s Crafting Your Personal Science Story, Part 1) 

4/1/2021 Pinch-of-Practice Workshop (The Story Collider’s Introduction to Storytelling for Scientists) 

3/31/2021 Orion Living-Learning Program First-Year Students (Communicating Science workshop)

3/30/2021 Orion Living-Learning Program First-Year Students (Communicating Science workshop) 

3/30/2021 Pinch-of-Practice Workshop (The Story Collider’s Introduction to Storytelling for Scientists) 

3/25/2021 Science on Tap, New River Valley (Bruce Hull: Leading From Where You Are: Sustaining Hope for a Sustainable Future)

3/25/2021 Pinch-of-Practice Workshop (Open Sessions for Practice Communicating)

3/23/2021 Pinch-of-Practice Workshop (Open Sessions for Practice Communicating)

3/18/2021 Pinch-of-Practice Workshop (Making Your Research Understandable: Bridging the Gap)

3/16/2021 Pinch-of-Practice Workshop (Effective Presentations: Building Confidence and Personal Presence)

3/11/2021 Virginia Tech Roanoke Center (Connecting Across Difference: Skills for Effective Communication in Person and Online)

3/4/2021 Virginia Tech Roanoke Center (Connecting Across Difference: Skills for Effective Communication in Person and Online)

3/4/2021 Pinch-of-Practice Workshop (Learning to Listen: Connecting with Audiences and Collaborators)

3/2/2021 Pinch-of-Practice Workshop (Make It Memorable’s Presenting Better Virtually: Engage Your Audience in a Virtual Setting)

2/25/2021 Science on Tap, New River Valley (Bennett Grooms: A New Age of Conservation: Helping Wildlife by Understanding People)

2/25/2021 Virginia Tech Roanoke Center (Connecting Across Difference: Skills for Effective Communication in Person and Online)

2/18/2021 Pinch-of-Practice Workshop (Distilling Your Message: Succinct and Compelling Interactions)

2/16/2021 Pinch-of-Practice Workshop (Distilling Your Message: Succinct and Compelling Interactions)

1/28/2021 Science on Tap, New River Valley (Daniel Bird Tobin: Embodying Emotional Connections to Science Through Theatre)

1/27/2021 Biomedical and Veterinary Sciences Graduate Student Association (Communicating Your Research Online. . .Is Like Making Your Own Hollywood Blockbuster!)

1/14/2021 Women and Gender in Development Conference (Preparatory workshop: Communicating Your Research)