Catherine Devine (CSF 2024-25) shares reflections from the 2024 Media Impact JFunders annual meeting in San Francisco: My first encounter with journalism was with my town’s Hometown Weekly—a modest paper…

To open the October issue of the Civic Science Series, we invited Jylana Sheats (CSF 2021-23), Associate Director of the Aspen Institute Science & Society Program, to share insights…

As Civic Science Fellows, Clio Heslop and Melanie Brown were hosted by the US–UK Fulbright Commission in partnership with organizations in the United States—Clio (as part of…

Greetings Civic Science Community, In a season of gratitude and reflection, we are immensely grateful for you and a community of leaders across sectors and fields. When we look at the photo…

Greetings Civic Science Community, When Anand Varma first gathered with other members of the inaugural class of Science Fellows, at the Gates Foundation headquarters in early 2020, he remembers not…

Greetings Civic Science Community, Several recent reports have punctuated our network discussions as we continue to think collaboratively about what science needs from democracy, and what democracy needs from science.  We continue…

The 2024–25 Civic Science Fellows cohort will launch in spring 2024. As 2024–25 host partners open applications for Fellows, we will share them here and in our monthly newsletter (see…

Greetings Civic Science Community, Collaboration is often the key to unlocking fundamental new science—and if that new science has the potential to profoundly reshape human life—to understanding how this new…

Greetings Civic Science Community, What does it take to change a system?  Many in our community are working to change systems of academic science, including the central goal of rewarding…

Greetings Civic Science Community, Beyond the headlines of ChatGPT, partnerships are coalescing to find more effective, resilient responses to misinformation—from social scientists investigating approaches through research (as Civic Science Fellow Michelle…