Life Science

Gustave Axelson

Science Editor at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Gustave Axelson is a science editor at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology...

Melissa Osgood

Media Relations Specialist at Cornell University

Melissa Osgood is the media relations specialist focusing on agriculture, animal...

Miyoko Chu

Senior Director of Communications at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Miyoko Chu is the senior director of Communications at the Cornell Lab of...

Johanna Congleton

Senior Scientist at Environmental Working Group

Dr. Congleton currently works as a Senior Scientist and Toxicologist with the Environmental Working Group, an environmental and public health research...

Lomax Boyd

PhD Candidate and NESCent Fellow, University Program in Genetics and Genomics, Duke

Lomax is a scientist committed to unpacking the process and people of our scientific culture. He believes the science narrative should...

Robin Smith

Science Writer at Duke Office of News and Communications

Robin Smith was a researcher and writing teacher for more than ten years...

Katie Burke

Associate Editor at American Scientist magazine

Katie L. Burke is associate editor at American Scientist, a magazine that publishes articles written for the general...

Holly Menninger

Director of Public Science for Your Wild Life in the Department of Biological Sciences at NCSU

An entomologist by training, Dr. Holly is a science communicator by passion and practice. She has worked at the intersection of science and society – in...

Clare Fieseler

Radio Producer and Co-founder of Scientists with Stories

I am a Ph.D. student in the Castillo Lab studying coral reef resilience and marine management discourse. My interdisciplinary dissertation research is...

Sara Peach

Journalist and UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication Instructor

Sara Peach is a journalist and educator. As a freelance writer and videographer, she has covered climate change for National Geographic and other...

Abby Olena

Duke Science & Society post-doc and former AAAS Mass Media Fellow

Abby Olena is a postdoctoral fellow in Science & Society at Duke University, where she focuses on getting scientists the skills they need to...

Joe Palca

Science Correspondant for NPR

Joe Palca is a science correspondent for NPR. Since joining NPR in 1992, Palca has covered a range of science topics — everything from biomedical...

Sheena Faherty

Graduate Student, Biology, Duke

Sheena is a doctoral candidate in the Biology Department at Duke University. She is...

Casey A Gilman

Graduate Student, Organismic & Evolutionary Biology, University of Massachusetts Amherst

I am a PhD candidate at the University of Massachusetts Amherst studying lizard evolutionary ecology, specifically locomotion and postcopulatory sexual...

Megan F Gambs

Graduate Student, Oceanography, University of Washington

Gambs is a graduate student in the School of Oceanography at the University of Washington, studying how the ocean and atmosphere respond to megafloods...

ComSciCon

The Communicating Science workshop for graduate students