The George Washington University has a number of experts participating in the 2025 AAAS Annual Meeting in Boston, February 13-15.
AAAS is the largest multi-disciplinary science society in the world, and its annual meeting brings together more than 4,000 people from over 65 countries.
The following faculty members participating at AAAS are available for media interviews regarding their expertise.
Frank Sesno, is the director of strategic initiatives and professor at the GW School of Media and Public Affairs, and executive director of the GW Alliance for a Sustainable Future. He will be leading a workshop on how storytelling can be a powerful tool for scientists to convey important scientific information.
Shelley Brundage is a speech, language and hearing sciences professor at GW’s Columbian College of Arts and Sciences. Her research expertise is in the areas of fluency development, stuttering, and the scholarship of teaching and learning. She is moderating a panel discussing how those with neurological and mental health disorders face health disparities and barriers in access to health care, jobs, and education.
Rebekah Tromble is an associate professor at the GW School of Media and Public Affairs and the director of the Institute for Data, Democracy and Politics. Tromble and Science’s Editor-in-Chief, Holden Thorp, will come together on the Sci-Mic Stage to discuss the unprecedented levels of intimidation and harassment aimed at researchers in an effort to discredit, delay, or end their work, and what researchers and their institutions can do to mitigate this issue.
David Karpf is a political communications scholar and an associate professor in the GW School of Media and Public Affairs. He is the award-winning author of The Move On Effect: The Unexpected Transformation of American Political Advocacy and Analytic Activism: Digital Listening and the New Political Strategy. Karpf will join Slate’s What Next: TBD podcast host Lizzie O’Leary on the Sci-Mic Stage to discuss the changing nature of the political and information environment, what is likely to come next, and what scientists can do about it.
Xiaodong Qu is an assistant professor in the GW School of Engineering and Applied Science. His expertise lies at the intersection of machine learning and brain-computer interfaces. Qu will be demonstrating a brain-computer interface game at the GW exhibit booth (#922) at AAAS.
If you’d like to speak with a GW expert, please contact Katelyn Deckelbaum, katelyn.deckelbaum@gwu.edu or Kathleen Garrigan, kgarrigan@gwu.edu.
Learn more about GW’s experts participating in this year’s AAAS conference here.
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