This week is National Postdoc Appreciation Week! Here at PEWS, we are excited to share a little about what our current postdoctoral fellow is up to, and to let you know that PEWS prioritizes hosting postdocs. The PEWS model of operations is to further our mission of conducting, teaching, and researching public engagement with science … Continue reading PEWS Hosts Postdocs
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Join one of our community partners, the Mercantile Library, for their upcoming Science & Nature Lecture with Angela Saini on Tuesday, September 19th at 6pm. Angela Saini is an award-winning science journalist and author. She has a Masters in Engineering from Oxford University and a Masters in Science and Security from King's College London. At … Continue reading Upcoming Science & Nature Lecture at the Mercantile Library
PEWS recently had the privilege of learning about Dr. Whitney Gaskins' work as a Professor at the University of Cincinnati and as an advocate for underrepresented groups in STEM, especially for Black communities, women, L.G.B.T.Q.+, veterans, and people with varying abilities. Extensive Background in Engineering and Education Dr. Gaskins decided to become a biomedical engineer … Continue reading Affiliate Spotlight: Whitney Gaskins
My interest in public engagement with science comes from finding the lack of it in my own past experiences. Growing up, I found the available resources to understand science scarce at school and saw this lack of resources have negative consequences on my peers' and my own education. This experience highlighted the importance of making … Continue reading My Experience with PEWS as a Web & Social Media Coordinator
The UC Center for Public Engagement with Science is back with its monthly feature, Cincinnati Science Roundup. Check out events and news related to science in August from our collaborators and community partners in Greater Cincinnati! Photo by Airam Dato-on on Pexels.com UC Center for Public Engagement with Science now has a LinkedIn page! We … Continue reading Cincinnati Science Roundup: August
Abel Gustafson is an Assistant Professor of Public Relations and Environmental Communication in University of Cincinnati's School of Communication, Film and Media Studies and is a PEWS faculty affiliate. This research, done in collaboration with the Yale Program on Climate Change Collaboration, is supported by PEWS. The global transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy … Continue reading Are moral appeals about renewable energy more persuasive?
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 Computational Learning in the Environment (ICICLE). ICICLE is an NSF-funded research collaboration between fourteen institutions across the United States with the mission "to render Artificial Intelligence (AI) more accessible to everyone and … Continue reading PEWS Graduate Student Affiliates Win ICICLE Fellowships
The UC Center for Public Engagement with Science is back with its monthly feature, Cincinnati Science Roundup. Check out events and news related to science in June from our collaborators and community partners in Greater Cincinnati! Every Thursday Science Series: Kenton County Parks and Recreation Every Thursday in June. Kenton County Parks & Recreation (KCP&R) … Continue reading Cincinnati Science Roundup: June
The UC Center for Public Engagement with Science is back with its monthly feature, Cincinnati Science Roundup. Check out events and news related to science in May from our collaborators and community partners in Greater Cincinnati! Building a Better Environment: An Architecture Matters Panel Discussion, American Institute of Architects (AIA) Thursday, May 4, 5:30-6:30 pm. … Continue reading Cincinnati Science Roundup: May
Please join us for the next virtual event in the Bioethics with Bigger Impact series on April 18th 3-4pm Eastern time on Confronting Climate Change in a “Perfect Moral Storm”. Environmental and Racial Justice in the Face of Climate Change Are ethicists “asleep at the wheel” in protecting planetary health? Global warming is intertwined with … Continue reading Confronting Climate Change in a ‘Perfect Moral Storm’: April 18th