At a forum for journalists, Ellen Peters, who leads the SOJC’s Center for Science Communication Research, talked about her research into how the public perceives the danger from wildfire smoke.

Three 2024 graduates of the Immersive Media Communications Master’s program—Luke Walker, Sam Morrison, and Kathleen Darby—placed third in Lenslist’s Spectacles Challenge for “Otter Rock: Beneath the Surface.”

In a first-of-its-kind study, Assistant Professor Alex Segrè Cohen and co-authors mapped the 32 million people in the U.S. who have limited or no access to safe drinking water and indoor plumbing.

SOJC students and faculty use immersive media, such as augmented reality and 360 video, to share coral research in Hawaiʻi, showing how science communication connects audiences to marine conservation.

An SOJC student-led organization called Snap AR Scholars is working with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife to change the way people interact with the ocean to drive conservation.

Eden McCall ’24 won first place in the 2024-2025 Hearst Journalism Awards Multimedia: Digital News category, and Ana Narayan '26 won second place in the Sports Writing category.

Alex Segrè Cohen, an SOJC assistant professor of science and risk communication, contributed to a study revealing the U.S. regions with the largest number of egregious water quality violations.

SOJC science communication researchers John Sutter, Alex Segrè Cohen, and Ben Bunquin take an interdisciplinary approach to connect science and society and help us build better connections to the natural world.  

When SOJC student Erin Morrison set out to witness the historic launch of NASA’s Europa Clipper mission in Florida in mid-October, she had no idea she’d also be facing a Category 5 hurricane.

Hollie Smith, SOJC associate professor, teaches students to focus on storytelling and explaining complex scientific concepts in plain language in a strategic science communication course.