As a scientist interested in public engagement, it can help to try different approaches to engagement to see what clicks.

A blue-ribbon coalition of fifty-six leading U.S. nonpartisan organizations, representing more than 10 million scientists and engineers, are calling on U.S. Presidential candidates to address a set of twenty major issues in science, engineering, health and the environment, and encouraging journalists and voters to press the candidates on them during the 2016 U.S. Presidential election season.

By STPF fellows Teresa Stoepler, Andrea Carson, and Harvey Hill