Week 2, Day 5

Happy second week! We have a lighter curriculum this week and have standardized the meeting schedule as much as possible. Please let us know if you have any more feedback going forward!

We’re excited to welcome two more expert guest speakers this week! We’ll also be watching a movie and having a discussion on it. You’ll continue to work on your projects and, for science writers, we’ll have a workshop on working with Squarespace as you start to look towards building your webpages at the end of the week.

Meetings (Zoom link in Slack)

Today we will have our Social Hour at 10 am PST. Our guest speaker, Kam Gardner is having some health issues today, so we won’t be meeting with him.

There are two Tasks to do today:

Squarespace Tutorial

Thank you note for Dr. Valera

  • Please sign this thank you note for Dr. Valera to thank her for coming to speak with us yesterday.

Project-Related Reminders for Today:

Check-in with your partner to see how drafting is going. Use your PM’s and fellow science writers as resources to answer questions and address obstacles you encounter. Think about reaching out to a different project group to peer review your draft once you both have completed rough drafts.

Conor and Malayka would like to meet with your project groups to touch base at some point. Given that they are enduring some hard family times this week, please be patient and flexible as they figure out what is manageable for them at this time and keep up the good work on your projects.

Curriculum for Today

Yesterdays curriculum was targeted toward preparing you for our expert guest speaker Dr. Eve Valera. Please come to the talk having reviewed this curriculum so you are ready to contribute to discussion! Curriculum today is designed to prime you for our guest speaker, Kam Gardner, tomorrow.

For Everyone

  • Shaken Brain chapter 7

For Science Writers

  • Concussion researcher claims AFL hindered two-year research project into players’ health (6m video) 

  • (Optional) Watch presentation from the 2019 Sports Concussion summit, Dr. Karen McCulloch, PT, Ph.D., MS, NCS describing her research on concussion rehabilitation. She speaks specifically of her work looking at concussive events occur when there is cervical or vestibular injury. As a neurologic physical therapist, McCulloch describes the number of confounders that may prolong recovery depending on certain impairments. Her work depends on looking at specific impairments and ascertaining how they will impact recovery and rehabilitation. (~33 m)