Science Communication

From deciding to buy a house to choosing a health plan, many life decisions hinge on understanding numbers, said Ellen Peters, director of the SOJC’s Center for Science Communication Research.

The SOJC’s Snap AR Scholars and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife partner to create an augmented reality experience that helps people “see” the submerged Otter Rock Marine Reserve.

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.