How Effective Communication Can Benefit Scientists
讲故事的力量是十大博彩推荐排名州立大学(Montclair State University)的马里奥. Casabona Future Scientists Awards Program
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“Like sushi? You’re going to love this.这是十大博彩推荐排名州立大学发生的一个关于生育能力和斑马鱼研究的有趣故事的钩子. 正如参与该项目的学生研究人员所说, 他们讲科学故事的风格为他们赢得了大学马里奥M. Casabona Future Scientists Awards competition, 哪个奖项认可学生使研究更容易理解和理解.
在解释科研人员所做的工作时，成为一名有效的科学传播者比以往任何时候都更加重要, why they do and why it matters, says Melissa Spigelman ’23, a first-year graduate student in Molecular Biology. 她所在的研究小组看到了他们对斑马鱼的研究在提高生育能力和女性健康方面的潜力.
“I do really impactful research,” Spigelman says. “但我意识到，如果我不能充分解释我的发现，没有人会使用我的发现，也没有人会关心我的发现.”
Mario M. Casabona, an entrepreneur and active angel investor, 在十大博彩推荐排名培养了优秀故事的培养. 通过他对科学与数学学院的参与和支持, Casabona帮助促进学生在广泛的STEM领域的体验式学习，并提供了启动交流竞赛所需的慈善投资, 鼓励学生提高向非科学听众解释观点所必需的演讲技巧.
“Communication skills, in particular the ability to effectively communicate 用外行人的话来说就是复杂的科学技术信息, are crucial for every STEM professional, regardless of their discipline or career path,” Casabona says.
Nine student research teams competed in December, 与他们的导师一起展示海报并就他们正在进行的工作进行演讲. 得奖者可获现金奖励，以海报形式展示研究成果及作五分钟口头报告. 学生们与观众互动和联系的方式让他们开怀大笑，也让他们感到惊奇, 科学与数学学院院长劳拉·比林斯说.
“完全理解这项研究取决于学生, to dig down deep to figure out how to explain it,” says Spigelman, who partners with Wendy E. Islas, a junior in Molecular Biology, 生物学教授卡洛斯·莫利纳指导的生育研究.
莫利纳说:“我再怎么强调卡萨博纳的比赛都不为过. “它确实为我们的学生提供了一个平台，让他们学习如何用外行的术语来传达复杂的科学发现.”
With their intriguing title – “Like sushi? 你会喜欢这个的”——伊斯拉斯说，文字游戏的目的是抓住观众的注意力，使信息易于消化, no matter their science background. “我们决定在游戏中加入轻松、轻松的元素. We needed something that played off of the zebrafish. It started off as a joke, but Dr. Molina and Melissa loved it. So we ran with it.”
Once they had the memorable tag, 学生们能够以有意义和个性化的方式帮助听众理解复杂概念的本质，将斑马鱼作为一种模式生物.
“很多时候，我都在向我妈妈解释我的研究, 我可能不会完全深入地跟我研究过的人交流, I might not talk about the exact methods we do, but I could talk about how it would impact her life,” Spigelman says. “I try to use different analogies.”
For the Casabona competition, 在解释他们是如何在繁殖时增加斑马鱼卵巢中的一种蛋白质, 学生们让观众想象一辆汽车驶入细胞核.
“你可以把我正在做的注射过程想象成一种工具，帮助把那块DNA带入斑马鱼体内,” Spigelman says.
Both Islas and Spigelman met as part of the 美国心脏协会西班牙裔服务机构学者项目, 它与为西班牙裔服务的学院和大学合作，在科学领域和保健工作人员中培养拉丁裔/西班牙裔学生的管道. In addition, Spigelman was recently awarded the Café Bustelo® El Café Del Futuro Scholarship他是全国仅有的25名学生之一，也是唯一来自新泽西州的学生. 今年夏天，她被选派到日本留学 IRES Summer Research Program 与日本顶尖研究机构的生物研究人员进行科学合作.
“I want to be a scientific communicator,” Spigelman says. “I don’t think I’m at a TED Talk level, 但十大博彩推荐排名州立大学给了我成为一名科学传播者的机会和支持. The Mario M. Casabono未来科学家竞赛让我知道了这有多难. 这很困难，但这是必要的，我已经准备好接受这个挑战了.”
2023 Casabona winners:
First. Like sushi? You’re going to love this: Wendy E. Islas, BS in Molecular Biology, and Melissa Spigelman, MS in Molecular Biology, mentored by Professor Carlos Molina, Department of Biology
Second. 创造一个身临其境的交互式VR游戏，促进基础教育: Anthony Condegni, BS in Computer Science, Jianna Loor, MS in Computer Science, mentored by Assistant Professor Rui Li, School of Computing
Third. A potential TB target: Uchenna Ezichi, MS in Chemistry, Citlaly Hernandez, BS in Biochemistry, Crystal Montero, MS in Pharmaceutical Biochemistry, mentored by Professor Nina Goodey, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Story by Staff Writer Marilyn Joyce Lehren. Photos by John J. LaRosa
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