PUSH: Public Understanding of Science and Health

PUSH is a research and teaching initiative of the College of Communication at The University of Texas at Austin. PUSH’s primary mission is to foster interdisciplinary research among UT researchers interested in improving the public’s understanding of science and health issues.

New Agendas in Science Communication

This recent mini-conference brought together scholars from more than a dozen universities to share their cutting-edge research on the public understanding of science, media coverage of science topics and the rhetoric of science. For a recap of the event, including video, please click here.

PUSH Events Campus-Wide Events A campus-wide calendar of upcoming science and health related events… 8/11/08-8/13/08: XIIIth Colloquium Hippocraticum Details…

PUSH Spotlight Communications Students Earn 2008 TPRA Award for Health Literacy Campaign University of Texas at Austin Collaboration Meeting with the Central Texas Veteran’s Affairs Health System PUSH Researchers Awarded AAA Research Fellowship to Fund Research on Direct-to-Consumer Pharmaceutical Advertising Rosenthal Joins Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) Program in Indoor Environmental Science and Engineering