Abstract
SPEAKER: Zoe Swann, PhD Candidate Arizona State University School of Life Sciences, Neuroscience, Class of 2022 REPORTER: Christine Watt Editorial Administrator American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine When Zoe Swann steps onto the stage at the 2022 CSE Annual Meeting, she is not alone. This year’s keynote speaker is accompanied by a strange looking instrument, somewhere between a guitar and an oddly proportioned lute. “It’s actually the body of a [medieval] lute, which a luthier turned into a baritone ukulele for me,” she later explains. For now, it serves as the kickoff salute to the annual meeting, as Swann sings a soulful love song about proteins and amino acids. The crowd erupts as she finishes and places the delicate instrument down with a wide grin. “Today I’m going to talk about what I just did: communicating science in rather nontraditional ways.” Thus, the tone is set for a talk on nontraditional communication from a (rather nontraditional) keynote speaker. Swann is young, an early career scientist, and one of the only students at Arizona State University to move from her bachelor’s to PhD in under 4 years. As she speaks, her eyes light up—you can tell this is a subject she is passionate about. “That was fun!” she exclaims, and indeed it should be. For Swann, science is a joyful subject she has loved since childhood, something that should be filled with wonder and surprise. However, this joy often gets lost. Swann notes that studies have shown graduate students are […]
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