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.

An SOJC study published this month in the journal Environment and Behavior found that climate news that includes a solutions angle is more likely to influence people to take action.

News stories that empower readers to see their own role in solutions to big problems like climate change are more inclined to take action, a new study by SOJC researchers has found.

Ellen Peters, director of the Center for Science Communication Research, tells the Yakima Herald-Republic that people prefer numerical data when making decisions. Peters wrote a book about numeracy.