No Coast SciComm
Connecting Through Curiosity
October 29-31, 2024
General Registration $100 | Student Registration $50
SciComm is a conference dedicated to understanding and promoting effective communication of science to diverse audiences - including students of all levels as well as the general public - across all venues. The virtual conference will include keynote speakers, featured speakers, panels, a film festival, Science Slam and 15-minute talks from conference attendees. In-person networking events will be planned in Lincoln, Nebraska, for local participants (lodging is not provided).
If payment of the registration fee is an obstacle to your attending this event, please send an email to scicomm@unl.edu describing your circumstances.
The conference is virtual; the fun is real!
Keynote Speakers
Featured Speakers and Presenters
Jocelyn Bullock
TedX Speaker. Ag Enthusiast. Ed Justice Advocate.
Rose Bear Don’t Walk
Séliš/Apsaálooke. Ethnobotanist.
Schedule
All times are in Central Time Zone. Schedule is subject to change.
Tuesday
10/29/24
Time | Topic |
11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. | Workshop 1 Feeling It: Using Social and Emotional Learning to Enhance Science Engagement |
1:00–2:30 p.m. | Workshop 2 Teaming Up With Communities: An Unconferencing Discussion |
3:00–4:30 p.m. | Workshop 3 Co-Creating Science Communication: World Building, Futuring, and Speculative Design as Tools to Engage Audiences and Collectively Imagine Preferable Futures |
Workshop 4 How to Strategically Communicate Your Science Online | |
4:30–5:30 p.m. | Break |
5:30–7:00 p.m. | Welcome Panel 1 |
7:00–8:00 p.m. | Keynote 1 |
8:00 p.m. | End of Day 1 |
Wednesday
10/30/24
Time | Topic |
10:00–11:00 a.m. | Keynote 2 |
11:00–11:30 a.m. | Featured Speakers How Indigenous Ethnobotany Enhances Connection to Science, Place, and Health Imaginative Co-Creation to Enhance Public Understanding of Science: The Power of World Building, Futuring, and Speculative Design Methodologies |
11:30 a.m.–12:30 pm | Break |
12:30–1:00 p.m. | Featured Speakers Catalyzing Visual Science Communication: Scientist x Art Student Comics Collaborations The Anatomy of Storytelling: Science Communication Edition |
1:00–1:40 p.m. | Oral Presentations Five Tips for Building a Science-Engaged Society Incorporating Science Communication Instruction in an Introductory Undergraduate Biology Course Impacts Students’ Skills and Willingness to Communicate About Culturally Controversial Science Topics Cultivating Undergraduate Students’ Inclusive Science Communication Skills through Mentorship and Application Drawing DNA: How Symbols and Scale Shape Student Understanding of Biology Concepts |
1:40–2:30 p.m. | Break |
2:30–3:30 p.m. | Keynote 3 |
3:30–5:00 p.m. | Panel 2 |
5:00–7:00 p.m. | Break |
7:00–8:00 p.m. | Science Slam |
8:00 p.m. | End of Day 2 |
Thursday
10/31/24
Time | Topic |
10:00–11:00 a.m. | Keynote 4 Zombified Media: Leveraging Morbid Curiosity for Science Communication and Public Engagement |
11:00–11:30 a.m. | Featured Speakers Durably Reducing Conspiracy Beliefs Through Dialogues with AI Our Future is Science: A STEAM Education Model at the Intersection of Science and Social Justice |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Oral Presentations Finding Community and Humor in Science Communication Analyzing and Improving STEM Students’ Abilities to Communicate About Scientific Uncertainty and Misinformation Beyond the Data: Taking the 'Scary' out of Science through Conversation Skating Through Science: How a Roller Derby Competitor Engages the Community in STEM |
12:10 pm | Closing Remarks |
Sponsors
We would like to thank all of our amazing sponsors for their contributions to the success of this conference.
Platinum: >$2,000 | Center for Science, Mathematics, and Computer Education |
Gold: $1,000 - $2,000 | College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources (CASNR) College of Education and Human Sciences (CEHS) Department of Physics and Astronomy Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts Nebraska Center for Biotechnology Nebraska 4-H School of Biological Sciences |
Silver: $500 - 999 | Chancellor’s Diversity Commissions Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communication Nebraska State Museum School of Natural Resources |
Bronze: under $500 | Department of Biochemistry Department of Teacher Learning & Teacher Education |