Science Outreach and Communication

Dr. Lattin is very involved with the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB). From 2015-2017, she was the Post-doctoral and Student Representative of the Division of Comparative Endocrinology. As the Post-doc/Student Rep, she organized a new event for the 2017 SICB Meeting in New Orleans, “Lunch with a Comparative Endocrinologist,” which brought small groups of students and post-docs together with faculty members during the meeting.
As a faculty member at LSU, Dr. Lattin has developed and taught a new graduate course called Science Communication for Biologists. As part of this course, she asked scientists to share on Twitter ways that they have been involved in science outreach and communication as graduate students. A compilation of these resources can be found here. See also “Beyond the Bench,” our class blog!
Dr. Lattin contributed some fun home science activities to the 2021 LSU College of Science Pursuit for Kids magazine.

As a post-doc, Dr. Lattin was a Board Member of Women In Science at Yale. WISAY supports women in STEM at all career levels through advocacy, mentoring programs, community building and career development. Here are some events Dr. Lattin organized as a WISAY Board Member:
- She worked with the Yale Provost’s Office and the Center for Teaching and Learning to bring Story Collider to campus Feb 28-March 1 2017 for several events related to science communication and outreach, including a night of science storytelling from Yale faculty and students.
- With Maria Tokuyama and Najla Arshad, she founded a new mentoring program bringing faculty mentors together with small groups of female post-docs.
- In Nov 2014, she organized and moderated a panel on "Strategies for Increasing Diversity in STEM Fields" with Linda Bockenstedt, the Harold W. Jockers Professor of Medicine and Chair of the Yale Task Force on Gender Equity, Eric Patridge, President and Founder of oSTEM, Corey Perez, Yale PhD student and Columbia Bridge to the PhD program alumus, and Keshia Ashe, Co-Founder and CEO of ManyMentors.
To read a guest post Dr. Lattin wrote for the women-in-academia blog Tenure, She Wrote about the importance of self-advocacy, click here.