Events
Upcoming Events
Spring Coffee & Donuts
Date and Time: Friday, May 10th, 2024, from 9:00 – 11:00am
Location: East entrance of Allen Hall
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2024 Science Communication Seminar Series
Co-sponsored with Alliance for Diversity in Science and Engineering (ADSE), A Community for Minorities in STEM (CMiS), and Women in Graduate Sciences (WGS), the Science Communication Seminar series covered three topics with a corresponding coffee hour after each event.
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2024 Graduate Research Forum
SCR and the Division of Graduate Studies invite you to a one-day conference showcasing the research, scholarship, and creative expressions of UO graduate students. The forum regularly showcases the work of more than 100 students representing more than 35 disciplines.
Spring 2024
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2024 Undergraduate Research Symposium
During the Undergraduate Research Symposium, co-sponsored by SCR, students from all disciplines, majors, and colleges came together on campus to share the projects and interests they qwew passionate about. Students presented research, creative projects, data stories, works-in-progress, etc. in a variety of formats and media.
Spring 2024
Past Events
SCR Annual Climate Change Game Night
Co-hosted by SOJC Assistant Professors Maxwell Foxman and Danny Pimentel, Climate Change Game Night offered a hands-on opportunities to explore representations of climate change through play and provides an opportunity for students from across campus to access the SOJC experience hub.
Friday, March 1st, 2024 from 5:00 – 8:00pm
Atrium on the first floor of Allen Hall
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Annual Research Forum
During the forum, we highlighted interdisciplinary UO science communication research through speakers and poster presenters, providing a venue to foster current and future collaborations across campus.
Friday, February 23rd, 2024
Crater Lake Rooms at the EMU
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Fall coffee & donuts
Friday, October 20th, 2023 from 9:00 – 11:00am
East entrance of Allen Hall
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SCR Annual Climate Change Game Night
Co-hosted by SOJC Assistant Professors Maxwell Foxman and Danny Pimentel, Climate Change Game Night offered a hands-on opportunities to explore representations of climate change through play and provides an opportunity for students from across campus to access the SOJC experience hub.
Friday, May 5th, 2023 from 5:00 – 8:00pm
Atrium on the first floor of Allen Hall
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Spring coffee & donuts
Friday, May 12th, 2023 from 9:30 – 11:30am
East entrance of Allen Hall
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Undergraduate Research Symposium
During the Undergraduate Research Symposium, co-sponsored by SCR, students from all disciplines, majors, and colleges came together on campus to share the projects and interests they qwew passionate about. Students presented research, creative projects, data stories, works-in-progress, etc. in a variety of formats and media.
Thursday, May 25th, 2023
Crater Lake Rooms at the EMU
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2023 Johnston Lecture
Climate Action: A Powerful Prescription to Improve Health and Equity
Dr. Renee N. Salas is a Yerby Fellow at the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Affiliated Faculty and previous Burke Fellow at the Harvard Global Health Institute. She is also a practicing emergency medicine physician in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Her full biography is on the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Wednesday, April 5th, 2023 from 5:00 – 7:30pm
Redwood Auditorium, EMU
Hosted by SCR and SOJC Johnston Lecture
Cosponsored by UO Environment Initiative, Center for Latino/a & Latin American Studies and the Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact
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Annual Research Forum
During the forum, we highlighted interdisciplinary UO science communication research through speakers and poster presenters, providing a venue to foster current and future collaborations across campus.
Friday, February 24th, 2023
Crater Lake Rooms at the EMU
Cosponsored by UO Environment Initiative and the Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact
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2023 Science Communication Seminar Series
Co-sponsored with Alliance for Diversity in Science and Engineering (ADSE), A Community for Minorities in STEM (CMiS), and Women in Graduate Sciences (WGS), the Science Communication Seminar series covered three topics with a corresponding coffee hour after each event.
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Dr. Stephanie Castillo, February 22nd, 2023 3:00 – 5:00 PM
What does a network of support look like, and why should everyone build one? Dr. Stephanie Castillo will share how she navigated graduate school and pivoted her career into science communication through self-advocacy and building a network of diverse mentors.
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Darrion Nguyen, March 6th 3:00 – 4:30 PM
With a staggering 700,000 followers across TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, Darrion is making waves as a global STEM communicator and educator.
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Dr. Imari Walker, April 6th, 2023 3:00 – 5:00 PM
Speaking on the impacts of microplastics in the ocean and talking about the tools necessary to use YouTube as a platform as a science communicator.
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2023 Graduate Research Forum
SCR and the Division of Graduate Studies invite you to a one-day conference showcasing the research, scholarship, and creative expressions of UO graduate students. The forum regularly showcases the work of more than 100 students representing more than 35 disciplines.
Wednesday, February 15th, 2023 in the EMU
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2022 Science Communication Seminar Series
Co-sponsored with Alliance for Diversity in Science and Engineering (ADSE), A Community for Minorities in STEM (CMiS), and Women in Graduate Sciences (WGS), the Science Communication Seminar series will cover three topics with a corresponding coffee hour after each event.
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Dr. Sarah McAnulty, April 6th, 3:00 – 4:00 PM
The 2020s have been a decade in dire need of effective science communication amidst a variety of public health and climate crises. Sarah McAnulty is a science communicator and executive director of the science communication nonprofit Skype a Scientist. Throughout her career in science communication, she has learned that one ingredient is often missing in our approach to communicating with the public: Empathy. In this workshop, she covered the history of distrust in science, and how scientists can bring their most empathetic selves into their communication projects.
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Dr. Maddie Sofia, April 28th, 2:00 – 3:00 PM
Award-winning science journalist Maddie Sofa spoke about her path from Ph.D. microbiologist to NPR podcast host. Maddie shared her experience learning how to tell inclusive science stories, building a nationwide science communication community, and working on a daily science podcast.
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Dr. Donna Nelson, May 19th, 2:00 – 3:00 PM
Dr. Nelson shared about her experiences as science advisor to the TV show Breaking Bad and how she came into that role. Breaking Bad is an American crime television series that portrays an underpaid, overqualified, high school chemistry teacher, Walter White.
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Friday, May 20th, 2022
SCR Annual Climate Change Game Night
Co-hosted by SOJC Assistant Professors Maxwell Foxman and Danny Pimentel, Climate Change Game Night offered a hands-on opportunities to explore representations of climate change through play and provides an opportunity for students from across campus to access the SOJC experience hub.
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Wednesday, February 23rd, 2022 from 5:00 – 6:30pm
2022 Johnston Lecture
Engaging people with science through storytelling and culturally relevant science communication
Storytelling and cultural relevance can be powerful tools for effective and inclusive science communication. Dr. Mónica Feliú Mójer shared examples and how these strategies can be applied to meaningfully engage different publics with science, especially historically marginalized populations.
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Friday, February 4th, 2022 from 1:00 – 2:00pm
Annual Research Forum
Highlighted interdisciplinary UO science communication research and provided a venue to foster current and future collaborations across campus.
Our speakers included:
Dr. Elliot Berkman, Psychology
Megan Lipsett, PhD Candidate, Psychology
Dr. Dave Markowitz, SOJC, Advertising
Dr. Deb Morison, SOJC, Advertising
Dr. Danny Pimentel, SOJC, Public Relations
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May 25th, 2021
UO Inaugural Week of Research
Environmental Initiative Research Webinar (10:45AM – 12:15PM
This webinar will highlight a variety of faculty members who are doing multidisciplinary research in the area of the environment at the UO. Moderated by Adell Amos, Director of the Environment Initiative, speakers, such as SCR Founding Researcher Dr. Hollie Smith, will discuss how their research embodies out commitment to work together to build and realize a just and livable future.
The Science Communication Experience: UO students, research, creative work, and a new minor (11:00AM – 12:00PM)
During the session, Center for Science Communication Research (SCR) Associate Director Mark Blaine will be joined by several undergraduate students, whose experiences informed the design of the Science Communication Minor. Their stories will demonstrate the SCR’s focus on the issues, skills, and scholarship critical to the science of science communication.
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March 5th, April 14th, & May 6th 2021
Science Communication Seminar Series with Dione Rossiter
Co-sponsored with Alliance for Diversity in Science and Engineering (ADSE), A Community for Minorities in STEM (CMiS), and Women in Graduate Sciences (WGS), the Science Communication seminar series hosts climate scientist and science communicator Dione Rossiter to give seminars with a corresponding Coffee Hour after each event.
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Systemic Racism in Science Communication (March 5th, 2-3:30PM)
The importance of increasing public understanding of scientific issues, like the environment and health, is rising. As a result, scientists are learning the importance of making their work more accessible. But at the same time, there are still marginalized communities that aren’t well-served by mainstream science media and traditional educational systems. In addition, women and people of color are faced with long-lived cultural and societal prejudices that perpetuate inequality. By directly involving specific communities in the science communication processes, addressing issues of increasing importance to the communities, and presenting scientific role models and spokespersons from within those communities, we can begin to ensure that science communication and education really is available and accessible to all.
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Science Communication (April 14th, 3-5:00PM)
Science communication goes far beyond academic papers. The benefits of science communication are vast and include an increase in science literacy and better-informed science policy. In addition, exceptional science communication includes effective means of disseminating scientific content through lectures, publications, grants, outreach initiatives, and interactions with the mass media.
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Branding and Self-Promotion: How to promote your science and your worth (May 6th, 3-4PM)
The ability to highlight professional strengths, promote work, and identify and endorse transferable skills does not come naturally for the majority of students. But more recently, scientific institutions have begun to strengthen their efforts to diversify and expand the scientific workforce, creating and maintaining a more inclusive environment for all. In order to be seen, promotion is necessary, and self-advocacy starts with students! In this workshop, students learned self-promotion, self-marketing, and self-branding for advancing your career. Participants will learn how to organize their educational and professional experiences (in the lab, classroom, workplace, etc.) into both an online and a tangible (holdable) portfolio for use during interactions across professional landscapes (interviews, LinkedIn connections, informational interviews, career fairs, etc.).
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January 14, 2021
2021 Johnston Lecture: “Overcoming the Challenges of Communicating Emerging Science about COVID-19” with Kathleen Hall Jamieson
During this remote talk, co-sponsored by the Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact and the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Policy and made possible in part by the Richard W. and Laurie Johnston Lecture Fund, Dr. Kathleen Hall Jamieson discussed influences on the public’s perception of science, media narratives and how to depolarize scientific findings in the age of COVID-19. The event also included a facilitated question and answer session.
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October 29, 2020
“Facts Still Matter: Countering the Influence of Russian Hackers, Trolls, and “Viral Deception” with Kathleen Hall Jamieson
In her first remote lecture for SCR, Dr. Kathleen Hall Jamieson, co-founder of FactCheck.org and director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, presented on deception and fact-checking in U.S. politics from data and analysis on Russian interference during the 2016 presidential election. Her talk was co-sponsored by the SCR and the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics’ Public Affairs Speaker Series, and was made possible in part by the Richard W. and Laurie Johnston Lecture Fund.
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February 7, 2020
Science Communication Winter Research Forum
The SCR’s inaugural Winter Research Forum highlighted interdisciplinary UO science communication research and provided a venue to foster future collaboration. Co-sponsors included the Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation, the Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact, and the UO Presidential Initiative in Data Science.
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January 24, 2020
Climate Change Game Night
Led by SOJC Media Studies Assistant Professor Maxwell Foxman, Climate Change Game Night offered hands-on opportunities to explore representations of climate change through play and provided an opportunity for students from across campus to access the newly built SOJC student experience hub in Allen Hall.