Opportunities

The Cornell Advancing Science and Policy Club and Science Homecoming invite researchers to bring their research to their communities. This call is for all federally-funded researchers to submit letters to the editor / op-eds about their story, the research they are currently doing, its importance, and its local impacts to local newspapers. The goal is to publish over 1,000 pieces around the country on or near June 16th – Nobel Prize-awarded geneticist Barbara McClintock’s birthday. 

These pieces will be accompanied by reporting in national media and an open letter from scientists regarding the inherently political nature of our position and what is at stake. Thus, the scope of these pieces should be restricted to your research as a next-generation scientist and its broader impacts, how research in your field generally impacts the local community, and how the local community played a role in shaping you as a scientist.

Learn more at blogs.cornell.edu/asap/events-initiatives/the-mcclintock-letters/