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Dec. 19, 2025. Developed with support from the Center for Communicating Science (CCS), a new Pathways minor is available through Virginia Tech’s College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences: Communicating and Engaging with Science. The curriculum “equips students with the skills to evaluate scientific information and communicate complex topics effectively.”

Dec. 18, 2025. For hundreds of rising high school students across the region, the Center for Engineering Excellence and Discovery (CEED) summer programs offer a first taste of life on a university campus. For the past four summers, the Center for Communicating Science (CCS) has supported this mission through lively, hands-on workshops that help students strengthen their communication skills and gain confidence presenting their projects.

Dec. 15, 2025. Almost two months after the 2025 Nutshell Games, the final of five winners has been determined. Priscilla Atim, biomedical and veterinary sciences Ph.D. student, has won the “Most Views” award for her talk, “Catching sneaky survivors in a fungal drug escape,” garnering over 16,000 views between our Youtube main channel and Youtube shorts.

Dec. 11, 2025. The Center for Communicating Science invites faculty, post-doctoral researchers, and graduate students to transform complex information into clear, compelling, and engaging messages in its March 16 workshop: "Distilling Your Message for Teaching and Outreach: Brief and Compelling Interactions with the People You Need to Talk to."

Dec. 5, 2025. This summer, Virginia Tech undergraduates in both the National Science Foundation Students Transforming Energy and Environment Research (STEER) program and the Fralin Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program had the opportunity to enhance their research communication skills through workshops led by the Center for Communicating Science (CCS).

Nov. 11, 2025. The Nutshell Games once again filled the Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech with energy, laughter, and applause as 29 Virginia Tech graduate students, representing disciplines across campus, took the stage to share their research in just 90 seconds each.

Nov. 10, 2025. Have you ever wondered how something as devastating as cancer could grow from the same evolutionary forces that shape every living thing? It is a question that blends science with something deeply human, and it drives the research Palash Sashittal shared at October’s Science on Tap.

Nov. 4, 2025. This was not your average summer theatre camp. There was no playwright, no script, and no director. And yet, in less than a month, 16 teens and young adults hailing from Harrisonburg and the Shenandoah Valley performed an entirely original piece using their own stories and experiences as inspiration.

Oct. 10, 2025. How can we demonstrate an understanding of how the brain works? That’s one of the questions that neuroscience graduate student Ainul Huda addressed at the September 25, 2025, Science on Tap event “Shining a Light on the Brain: Guiding Animal Behavior Using Light.” During the interactive event, Huda demonstrated how neuroscientists are learning to manipulate fruit fly behavior with light.