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Cuny University of North Carolina at Greensboro  \nErin D. Ellis-Harrison University of North Carolina at Greensboro  \nTaylor L. Williams University of North Carolina at Greensboro  \nIntroduction  \nIn his 2016 book chapter, Herr adamantly argues for transdisciplinary environments as an important change to the education of science students. Herr, as director of the Nanoscience department atthe Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering (JSNN), writes extensively of educational environments as ecosystems with educational supply chains. He introduces STEAM+ explaining that the A added to STEM represents art and this STEAM+ is helping (Herr, 2016):  \nprepare students for careers that value creativity and innovation. It thrives on hands-on problem solving, critical thinking and communication skills. It also stimulates the discovery, understanding, application, integration, implications and communication of extremely small nano-materials and nanoscopic processes for future nanotechnologies that will benefit society and address global challenges.(p.85)  \nAs has been the case with much of our innovation, The University Speaking Center at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) is engaged in communicating science work because it is what our campus community has brought tous.  \nA few years back, UNCG biologist, Bruce Kirchoff approached Cuny, our director, seeking a formal professional  \nrelationship which included his developing and facilitating programming similar to what he attended at the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science. That led to the development of a faculty fellowship, with no formal compensation attached, for Kirchoff. In that role, he has intentionally added improv and storytelling to our center’s offerings, cultivated a science community audience for our communicating science programming, developed our programming to support graduate students doing both the three minute speech and poster presentations, supported our INNOVATE internal grant funded efforts, presented on academic panels, and more recently, contributed to the scholarly body of this work.  \nSoon after Kirchoff joined us, Herr sought to partner to add A/art to the education of his first-year graduate students. Herr’s students at the JSNN are also our UNCG students as a result of a UNCG partnership with nearby North Carolina Agricultural and Technological State University. Herr previously visited the Alda Center. In working with Herr’s students, we have drawn upon theatre and communication studies to add the art that Lindenfeld writes about. This art provides a genuine connection where “we are willing to listen with the willingness to be changed, the moment of thoughtful risk taking, of emotional vulnerability that can open up possibilities for creativity and change”(Lindenfeld, 2018, p. 9) . We also agree with  \nJackson, writing from his role of President of the National Communication Association,“that our field has something valuable to add to the way in which science is understood by our world”(2018, p. 2) .  \nIn 2018, Cuny, Harrison, and Williams were joined by Kirchoff on a communicating science panel at the 17th Annual Excellence at the Center conference. The panel garnered a great deal of questions and discussion which continued throughout the rest ofthe conference. We were encouraged then to further share our UNCG internal INNOVATE grant funded efforts. We put ourselves in the middle of this case study, because we have done the work ourselves and so we are in many ways telling our own stories. We believe that doing this work adds great value to scientific inquiry and innovation. While this case study adds to both communication center knowledge and the knowledge of communicating science, we offer it with hope that other centers will look to replicate our programming where they can. To that end, we have taken the time to provide great detai","cbCaippK0LBoeReQ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaippK0LBoeReQ","pdf",93917,14,"English","# Introduction\n# Background","[{\"question\":\"What is the central purpose of the INNOVATE case study?\",\"answer\":\"It documents how a communication center partners with nanoscience education to improve how scientific work is communicated to non-science audiences.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the case study connect STEAM+ to nanoscience education?\",\"answer\":\"It explains that adding art to STEM (STEAM+) supports creativity, innovation, and communication through hands-on problem solving and critical communication skills.\"},{\"question\":\"What training activities were introduced through the course and workshop background?\",\"answer\":\"Students toured the JSNN facility, co-designed and co-facilitated an all-day workshop, and used seminars on public speaking plus whole-group improvisational exercises to help researchers present their work.\"}]","Communicating nanoscience and the communication center - An INNOVATE case study | PDF",1792088255,35]