{"id":2083,"date":"2015-10-20T15:22:45","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T19:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/nano-bu\/?p=2083"},"modified":"2015-11-19T11:57:38","modified_gmt":"2015-11-19T16:57:38","slug":"communicating_science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/nano-bu\/2015\/10\/20\/communicating_science\/","title":{"rendered":"Acting Classes Give Scientists Tools to Pitch Their Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/news\/nation\/2015\/10\/19\/boston-university-scientists-take-acting-classes-learn-how-pitch-their-work-program-founded-alan-alda\/raz4o3SgPbUip8GUehLK3K\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Thirty-two hand-picked Boston University researchers convened for a day in September to participate in the Alan Alda Communicating Science Workshop held at BU and led by actors and journalists.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The workshop was designed to teach scientists to be tuned-in and persuasive when they communicate\u00a0their\u00a0work to lawmakers, federal agencies, and the public&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty-two hand-picked Boston University researchers convened for a day in September to participate in the Alan Alda Communicating Science Workshop held at BU and led by actors and journalists. The workshop was designed to teach scientists to be tuned-in and persuasive when they communicate\u00a0their\u00a0work to lawmakers, federal agencies, and the public&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5736,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/nano-bu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/nano-bu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/nano-bu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/nano-bu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5736"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/nano-bu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2083"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/nano-bu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2137,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/nano-bu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083\/revisions\/2137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/nano-bu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/nano-bu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/nano-bu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}