The CEREO Newsroom: a Resource for Communicating Research, Training Students, and Meeting NSF Broader Impacts Requirements

Jason Williams, Civil & Environmental Engineering
Todd Norton, Murrow College of Communications
Lucrezia Paxson, Murrow College of Communications
Ryan Risenmay, Murrow College of Communications

Location: PACCAR Bldg (PETB) 135

This seminar will summarize opportunities available to WSU faculty and students through the CEREO Newsroom (https://cereo.wsu.edu/cereo-newsroom/). Founded in 2014 through a CEREO seed grant, the CEREO Newsroom pairs undergraduate Murrow communications students with graduate students conducting environmental research. Under the guidance of Murrow faculty, the student teams create multimedia packages (videos and written articles) that address environmental problems and the research graduate students are doing to help solve those problems. Projects completed to date include profiles of WSU research focused on drought-resilient wheat breeding, fish movement in marine protected areas, stream biogeochemistry, and ecological effects of nitrogen deposition at Mt. Rainier. Several example multimedia packages will be presented during the seminar. In contrast to other communications resources available (WSU communications or self-promotion of research), newsroom products are created by student teams and emphasize student training and experiential learning. Newsroom projects consequently are a unique and compelling way to meet NSF broader impacts or other similar grant requirements. The Newsroom has the infrastructure and expertise in place to support new projects, including those associated with WSU proposals currently in preparation for the upcoming NSF Food-Energy-Water grant deadline. Attend the seminar or visit https://cereo.wsu.edu/cereo-newsroom/ to learn more and see examples of the high quality student-generated products the CEREO Newsroom could work with you to create.