Communicating Science to the Public: Taking Your Research Out of the Lab and into the News

(Please bring a laptop.)

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/16
Limited to 20 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions

This workshop, hosted by the Graduate Program in Science Writing, will help scientists understand how to communicate complicated research to the general public. Topics to be covered include journalism and mass communication, interviewing, social media, personal websites, science outreach, and science writing — as well as specific topics of interest highlighted by workshop participants.

Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies/Writing
Contact: Seth Mnookin, 14E-303, 617-253-3599, fhusain@mit.edu