Sharing the latest scientific advances should not be so difficult, Ashli Wright says, but too often things go awry in trying to inform the general public.
Eduardo De La Vega Taboada remembers the day he recruited high schoolers in a poor community in South America to serve as citizen scientists, defined as amateurs who collect and analyze data to collaborate with professionals. The dozen teenagers in a school club leapt at the opportunity he dangled before them: document the physical aspects of your
Nine University of Notre Dame graduate students will compete for $4,500 in prize money during the annual Shaheen Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. .
Engineering doctoral students at Montana State University faced one of their greatest challenges — explaining their complicated projects concisely in a way that makes sense to an audience.