The Communication, Science, and Society Initiative is a research partnership between the Department of Communication Arts and Sciences and the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences that focuses on addressing significant social problems at the intersection of human communication and the life sciences.
Our Working Groups
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Beyond Bites:
A Sociocultural Probe into
Lyme Vaccine Discourse
and Prevention
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Intelligence, Ethics,
and the Search for
Extraterrestrial Life
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Collective Identity
and the Chesapeake
Bay Watershed
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Bee Conservation
in Pennsylvania
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Communication
and Well-Being
in Organizations
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COVID-19,
Communication,
and College Life
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Living, Creating,
and Healing
Through COVID-19
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Combatting
Vaccine Hesitancy
News
Events