Description:

We are excited to invite Chicago-area graduate students to apply for the Communicating Science (ComSciCon-Chicago) workshop, to be held at Northwestern University’s Robert H. Lurie Medical Research Center on the weekend of August 6th-7th, 2016. The ComSciCon workshop series is designed to empower graduate students to communicate the complex concepts arising in science, engineering and other technical fields to diverse audiences.

We have a stellar program of events planned for the two full days of the workshop. Attendees will interact with fellow graduate student leaders in science communication, learn from expert writers and communicators including journalists, communication researchers, and scientists, and will produce original writing for publication.

The application for the workshop is now open and will close at 11:59pm on May 1st (application link: http://goo.gl/forms/0D5bppwGTd). There will be no cost or fee to graduate student attendees, but only a limited number of spots are available. Attendees will be selected through a competitive application process.

ComSciCon-Chicago is organized by graduate students from Northwestern University and The University of Chicago.

This workshop is generously supported by Northwestern University’s The Graduate School, McCormick School of Engineering, Interdisciplinary Biological Sciences Program, Department of Chemistry, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Plant Biology & Conservation, the UChicago Dean’s Council, and the Chicago Biomedical Consortium.

For more information, please contact ComSciCon organizing committee at comscicon.chicago@gmail.com.