PEWS is excited to share our newest addition to our YouTube Channel: PEWS Student Profiles. There are eight new videos, each created by a student in the PEWS Public Engagement with Science Graduate Seminar. As part of this seminar, students were asked to record a brief summary of their research with the public as their target audience. Students workshopped their scripts before recording the videos. The videos discuss subjects ranging from invasive species and local geology to artificial intelligence and ethics of technology.
The semester-long graduate seminar explores public engagement with science theory and best practices, including varieties of public engagement with science, methods of working with community partners and the public, and learner-centered education. The course culminates in multi-disciplinary team projects carried out with community organizations in Greater Cincinnati. This course is offered every spring semester.
If you are a UC graduate student interested in taking this course next spring, please enroll in the Fall Sharing Science Experience, which is a prerequisite. This two-day, one-credit workshop is an introduction to Public Engagement with Science, with the first day led by a museum educator at the Cincinnati Museum Center.
PEWS Student Profile videos were edited by the PEWS Video and Media Producer, Lucas Dunlap, and an undergraduate honors student, Arianna Galloway-Reed.
The PEWS YouTube channel now hosts over 60 videos, ranging from public talks about science to guidance for academics interested to conduct public engagement with science. Other new videos include Recipes for Science, a series of 17 videos about scientific methods and reasoning produced in conjunction with a textbook by the same name, a panel discussion, Public Engagement with Science Across Disciplines, hosted by the 2024 Conference of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, and a public lecture by Dr. Alan Lightman, “The Miraculous from the Material.” We also now host a playlist of the videos produced and hosted by RadioArtifact of Science on Tap events.