08/27/2026
How do you make complex science click for the general public?
Take a peek inside the College’s science communication minor, where students learn to ditch the jargon and turn cutting-edge research into stories that land with people outside the lab.
Students study the research behind why science communication succeeds or fails, then put it into practice through hands-on projects.
Brianna Leech, AB’26, turned satellite data into a wildfire-risk tool for Utah’s Department of Natural Resources during a summer at a NASA research center. Rising third-year, Elijah Tan, reworked a story on nuclear microreactors after a classmate asked him the question every communicator has to answer: “Why should I care?”
Learn more at the link in our bio.