February 27, 2015

Using Visuals to Communicate Science

UPDATE:
Click the play button in the video below to watch a recording of this hangout. 

What: A Google Hangout hosted by Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society
When: March 6, 2015, at 12:00 p.m. Eastern
Speaker: Dennis Meredith, chair of Sigma Xi's Publications Committee and honorary life member
Moderator: Heather Thorstensen, Sigma Xi's manager of communications

What visual tools and techniques could you use to better communicate your research? Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society will host a live, public Google Hangout featuring Dennis Meredith, who will give a presentation on this topic. Then he will take questions from the audience. 

This information will be particularly helpful for students who are participating in Sigma Xi's 2015 Student Research Showcase, an online research presentation competition, March 23-29. 

The Google Hangout will take place on Sigma Xi's Google+ page. Click here to RSVP, post a question, and to watch the hangout on March 6.

More About Our Speaker:

Dennis Meredith

Dennis Meredith's career as a science communicator has included service at some of the country's leading research universities, including MIT, Cal Tech, Cornell, Duke, and the universities of Rhode Island and Wisconsin. He has worked with science journalists at all the nation's major newspapers, magazines, and radio and TV networks and has written well over a thousand news releases and magazine articles on science and engineering over his career. He has served on the executive board of the National Association of Science Writers (NASW) and is a contributor to its magazine ScienceWriters.

He wrote the handbook Working with Public Information Officers, the NASW handbook on media relations,Communicating Science News, the NASW marketing and publishing resource guide (membership required), and the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing's online Guide to Careers in Science Writing. He has also served as a judge and a manager for the NASW Science-in-Society Awards and the AAAS Science Writing Awards.

In 2007, he was elected as a AAAS Fellow "for exemplary leadership in university communications, and for important contributions to the theory and practice of research communication." He writes fiction and non-fiction books. He is author of Explaining Research: How to Reach Key Audiences to Advance Your Work (Oxford, 2010). In 2012, he was named an honorary member of Sigma Xi.