Communicating Science Workshop

8 Dec 4:00 pm

The 3-Day “Communicating Science” workshop, sponsored by Mississippi EPSCoR and the National NSF EPSCoR Education Council, is now available on YouTube here

The workshop was led by Dr. Ryan Fortenberry who is currently faculty at the University of Mississippi and who is the author of Complete Science Communication with over 125 peer-reviewed scientific publications. A more detailed bio is below.

Bio: Ryan Fortenberry is Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of Mississippi.  He previously held the same position at Georgia Southern University from 2013 to 2018.  Ryan earned a BS in Mathematics and a MS in Communication from Mississippi College; a Ph.D. at Virginia Tech in Theoretical Chemistry; and was a NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow at the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California.  Ryan is currently the Past-Chair of the ACS Astrochemistry Subdivision and is the Ole Miss Campus Coordinator for the Mississippi Space Grant Consortium.  Ryan has over 125 peer-reviewed scientific publications, received several NASA research grants, has been published in Scientific American, and is the author of Complete Science Communication, a text on how to write and talk about science both to expert and non-expert audiences alike.  Ryan enjoys the outdoors, travel, and time with family.

Communicating Science Workshop PowerPoint