RELATE helps scientists develop lay-audience communication skills & facilitates public engagement through community events.
RELATE is a communications training and community engagement program designed to improve the dialogue between researchers and different public audiences. Our program is built on the belief that science communication should be a conversation, and not scientists lecturing audiences about their work. Our goal is to support researchers in engaging in this conversation. Public dialog on scientific idea
10/28/2020
It's time for another video! Listen to Yolanda Zhang discuss a new way that doctors can monitor whether patients are taking their prescriptions regularly
Yu Zhang - How can doctors know patients are taking their prescriptions daily? PrEP is a type of preventive medicine that stops the propagation of HIV virus and prevents infection for highly-risked people. However, after being prescribe...
10/14/2020
Even more headed your way! Check out this week's video by 2020 Summer Workshop Alum Kenny Trieu about how skin tumors grow and why his work answering that question may lead to new cancer treatment strategies
Kenny Trieu - How to grow a skin tumor At some point, we’ve all encountered a close relative or family member that may have developed skin cancer in their lifetime. I’m Kenny Trieu, a Ph.D. candid...
10/13/2020
SciComm videos from our 2020 Summer Workshop graduates are arriving each week on the RELATE YouTube channel! Check out this video from last week by Maddie Barron on the connection between intestinal inflammation and C. diff bacterial infection
Maddie Barron - Intestinal inflammation and C. diff invasion Infection with Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) can lead to severe diarrhea and, in the worst cases, even death. One of the largest risk factors for develo...
01/30/2020
Hey scicommers! Check out RELATEr Fernanda Alvarado-Leiton's video about how people respond to surveys.
Fernanda Alvarado-Leiton - Response Styles In this video, learn how your personal characteristics such as cultural background, gender, education, age, and more affect the way in which you interpret an...
12/01/2019
Hey scicommers! Check out RELATEr Ian Nessler's video on a new type of cancer therapy.
Ian Nessler - Improving Cancer Therapies Cancer is an all too common disease. Over the last couple hundred years, we have striven to create a cure for cancer, and although there has been some succes...
11/17/2019
Hey scicommers! Check out RELATEr Aline Martins de Carvalho's video about eating sustainably.
Aline Martins de Carvalho - A Sustainable Diet: What It Is and How to Have One This video presents the concept of sustainable diets and discusses how to have one, especially in the Brazilian context. Sustainable diet is a diet that prot...
11/03/2019
Hey scicommers! Check out RELATEr Alyse Krausz's video about her device that helps doctors diagnose brain injuries.
Alyse Krausz - A Faster Brain Injury Blood Test Concussions and other types of traumatic brain injuries are difficult for doctors to diagnose because of the tests available. Doctors can ask a patient quest...
10/20/2019
Hey scicommers! Check out RELATEr Jeff Olney's video on how our brain's wiring influences our emotional reactions.
Jeff Olney - Desire? Dread? It's all in your head! What determines which emotion we respond with in a given situation? What makes us respond to an ordinary situation in an emotional way? Here we’ll learn how ...
05/13/2019
How else would we celebrate mother's day than with ? Happy Mother's Day from the RELATE team