Scaling up CSU’s Center for Science Communication: Enhancing Interdisciplinarity to Communicate about Science and Sustainability

Funding Year: 2018-2019

Confronting today’s most pressing global scientific and sustainability issues, we are faced with the added burden of polarized political, media, and public spheres. To address this challenge, this GCRT will develop and demonstrate interdisciplinary opportunities for the study and practice of science communication and the role of information in decision-making among members of the CSU community. Existing groups on CSU’s campus are engaging in both informal and formal science communication activities, including a Center for Science Communication in the Department of Journalism and Media Communication, as well as projects funded through federal- and university-sponsored grants and cooperative agreements. The GCRT will collaboratively pursue the development of a more formal University-wide center for science communication-related activities.

Principal Investigators:

  • Ashley Anderson, Department of Journalism and Media Communication
  • Joe Champ, Department of Journalism and Media Communication
  • Gaya Sivakumar, Department of Journalism and Media Communication
  • Dawn Thilmany, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
  • Ellison Carter, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Laura Bellows, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition
  • Meena Balgopal, Department of Biology