Travis Bernardo

Add an Extra Dose of Science to Government Rulemaking

November 15, 2016
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Democracies tend to have common expectations embedded in their culture. The most fundamental of these is that we insist our…

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Reflections on Making the Leap

October 3, 2016

At ASCB, and especially at COMPASS, we frequently visit the topic of nonacademic careers. Many of us have discussed the…

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Reflections on Making the Leap

September 2, 2016
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At ASCB, and especially here on the COMPASS blog, we frequently visit the topic of non-academic careers. Many of us…

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Innovating STEM Learning in Higher Education

July 29, 2016
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Getting young students through the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) pathway has been a long-standing national priority. Federal grants…

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Training to Teach: Preparing for the Other Half of Academia

July 1, 2016
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Academic faculty jobs are difficult to come by, and science graduates are increasingly taking positions outside of academia. Recognizing this…

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Communicating Science to the Public: Perspectives from the ASCB 2015 Annual Meeting

January 15, 2016
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Of the many themes running through this year’s annual ASCB conference, one that stood out was how vitally important it…

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A Climate Change Pause? The Science Behind the Debate

November 13, 2015
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Within the scientific community empirical acceptance of anthropogenic climate change is by far the prevailing view, with scientific dissent comprising…

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California’s Drought: Water at the Interface of Science and Policy-Making

August 21, 2015
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As scientists, we are all generally convinced of the importance of our own research, even if we don’t perceive its…

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