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…