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SCERN in the News!
MTSU faculty, students on national forefront of facilitating better science communication
Aug 29, 2025
Middle Tennessee State University associate biology professor Liz Barnes knows good science is inseparable from good communication. Neither students nor the public can deeply engage with critical yet contentious science issues like climate change or vaccine safety if having to first overcome an insensitive or even condescending delivery.
WGNS Radio podcast episode!
Aug 24, 2025
On this episode of the WGNS Action Line Podcast, host Scott Walker sits down with Dr. Elizabeth “Liz” Barnes, associate professor of biology education at MTSU, to discuss the summer gathering of the Science Communication Education Research Network (SCERN), a project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
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