Graduate Student Projects
Graduate Fellow Reflection on Sustainability@UC Week Showcase
On January 29th, during Sustainability@UC week, the Center for Public Engagement with Science (PEWS) and the Office of Sustainability hosted an undergraduate and graduate…
Science and Sports: A UC and FC Cincinnati Collaboration
The Center for Public Engagement with Science (PEWS) has partnered with Major League Soccer team FC Cincinnati on a program aimed at helping kids…
Introducing PEWS’ New Graduate Fellows
The Center for Public Engagement with Science (PEWS) is excited to introduce two new graduate fellows to the team! Our interns and fellows are…
Reflections on ASTRO Fellowships
The ASTRO Fellowships, hosted by the Armstrong Institute for Space, Technology, and Research (ASTRO), provides undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty with the opportunity to…
PEWS Graduate Fellow Reflections
The Center for Public Engagement with Science (PEWS) is grateful for the hard work, creativity, and dedication of our 2024-2025 fellows! These graduate students…
Introducing PEWS Summer Fellows
The Center for Public Engagement with Science (PEWS) is lucky to have a great team of graduate and undergraduate fellows this summer, including a…
Introducing: PEWS interns and fellows
The UC Center for Public Engagement with Science (PEWS) is happy to announce our most recent graduate student interns and fellows! These students are…
2024 Engaging Science Fellowships
This past summer, PEWS hosted its first cohort of Engaging Science Fellows! This is the final opportunity in the Engaging Science educational sequence offered…
PEWS Student Profiles
PEWS is excited to share our newest addition to our YouTube Channel: PEWS Student Profiles. There are eight new videos, each created by a…
PEWS Graduate Student Fellow Reflections
Thank you to our interns and fellows for all their hard work with PEWS this past year! Our sustainability fellows, and web and social…
Introducing 2023-2024 PEWS Interns and Sustainability Fellows
PEWS is excited to announce our 2023-2024 graduate student interns and fellows who will be contributing their talents and expertise throughout this year. We…
My Experience with PEWS as a Web & Social Media Coordinator
My interest in public engagement with science comes from finding the lack of it in my own past experiences. Growing up, I found the…
PEWS Graduate Student Affiliates Win ICICLE Fellowships
PEWS Graduate Student Affiliates Collin Lucken and Tim Elmo Feiten have both been named Educational Fellows of the AI institute for Intelligent Cyber Infrastructure with…
PEWS Graduate Student Affiliates: What’s Next?
Congratulations to our first cohort of PEWS Graduate Student Affiliates to graduate from UC! Learn about their time at UC, their reflections on their…
PEWS Sustainability Fellowship Reflections
Dylan Carter, Anthropology MA student This year with PEWS, my primary focus has been on facilitating connections between the University of Cincinnati community and…
Introducing 2022-2023 PEWS Interns and Sustainability Fellows
PEWS is excited to introduce four new interns and Sustainability Fellows for the academic year 2022-2023. With the support of UC Research2030, PEWS has named…
UC Medical Sciences Student Finds Science Communication
My journey with science communication began in my junior year pursuing an undergraduate degree in Medical Sciences. I was applying for the Goldwater Scholarship…
Career Goals in Science and Climate Change Outreach
I am pursuing a PhD in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Cincinnati with an emphasis on climate change. As I begin…
Sustainability in Action
I began grad school for Community Psychology after being in the workforce for many years. Drawn back to school by my interest in the…
Cross-Pollination and Collaborative Engagement
My interests have always lain at the intersection of people, nature, and aesthetics. The better we understand people, the better we can design ways…
Rediscovering Public Engagement and Interdisciplinarity
Beginning the third year of my graduate program, I was focused on completing the program requirements and progressing in my research. This singular focus…
New chapter on participatory research by Andrew Evans
We are excited to share a forthcoming chapter written by PEWS research assistant, Andrew Evans, and PEWS director, Angela Potochnik about participatory research. This…
Geology graduate students bring science to local classrooms
Graduate students and faculty at University of Cincinnati’s Department of Geology are excited to share their research and increase engagement with the Cincinnati community.…
Introducing the new PEWS Sustainability Interns
PEWS, with the support of UC Research2030, is excited to introduce the three new PEWS Sustainability Interns: Zeke King Phillips, Kat Timm, and Jessica…
Teaching and Conducting Public Engagement with Science at UC
I recently graduated from the University of Cincinnati as a double major in Biochemistry and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Throughout my undergraduate career, I was unsure about how…
Meet Meg Corcoran, new PEWS Social Media and Web Coordinator
Meg Corcoran is a third year Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Geology at UC who is excited to share her excitement for public…
Meet Kristen Urasek, New PEWS Graduate Intern
Kristen’s Public Engagement Journey Kristen’s journey in public engagement with science began at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo in Zoo Crew, with their teen volunteer…
Emily Simpson Selected as Center’s Outreach and Social Media Coordinator for 2020-2021
Introducing our Outreach and Social Media Coordinator for 2020-2021, Emily Michelle Bruff Simpson
“Mission: Grow Cincinnati” Contest Winners
Have you gardened during the COVID-19 shutdown? In the 2020 spring semester, students in the Public Engagement in Science graduate course partnered with the Cincinnati Nature Center to inspire the community…
Genomics Partnership with Cincinnati Children’s, NHGRI, and the Smithsonian
Graduate students from the Public Engagement with Science Course partnered with Cincinnati Children’s Center for Pediatric Genomics and the National Human Genomic Research Institute…
Discover Fossils of Ohio: A Guided Activity Kit
A team of students in the Public Engagement with Science Graduate Course this past semester partnered with the UC Field Station to create a…
Matt Stonecash’s video about Professional Writing
A few weeks ago students in the Public Engagement with Science class created 5-minute lightening-talk videos explaining their research. The goal was to “rip…