Graduate students are invited to apply for the Chicago Communicating Science Conference (ComSciCon-Chicago), to be held at Northwestern University’s Robert H. Lurie Medical Research Center on the weekend of August 26th-27th, 2017. The ComSciCon workshop series is designed to empower graduate students to communicate the complex concepts arising in science, engineering and other technical fields to diverse audiences.

Application deadline:  May 19, 2017

The application for the workshop is now open and will close at 11:59pm on May 19th (application link: https://goo.gl/forms/3vvpPUOmShjm9pK03).

ComSciCon-Chicago is organized by graduate students from Northwestern University, The University of Illinois at Chicago, and Ball State University.

This workshop is generously supported by Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering; Department of Chemistry; Department of Microbiology-Immunology; Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics; Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications; and the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Graduate College.

For more information, please contact ComSciCon organizing committee at chicago@comscicon.org.​