Welcome to Passio • Inventa
From the Latin “passio,” meaning passion, and “inventa,” meaning discovery. As young scientists, we exist as the bridge between these two concepts.
We are a group of graduate students from all walks of life who are passionate about the way the world works. Embark with us on a journey of discovery of some of our greatest passions, and learn what being a graduate student and a scientist looks like. Whoever you are, whatever background you are from, it is our hope you will find something that interests you in these diverse pages, and that you’ll learn a thing or two along the way.
Collaboration with Emerging Creatives of Science
Article Series on Scientific Communication
How to search for truth in a world where scientific misinformation spreads like a virus.
Why productive communication between scientists and non-scientists fails so often.
What scientists and non-scientists alike can do to improve communications and better understand each other.
PassioInventa’s ‘person’ method
Coming soon!
PassioInventa’s goal is to not only provide a platform where effective, engaging scientific communication can happen, but also to change how scientific communication is done. Check out these articles to see why scientific communication fails in our society, why it’s important that we communicate better, and how we propose to improve the way science is communicated in our world.
Check out this link for our podcast interview at When Science Speaks, in which we discuss PassioInventa and the importance of empathy-driven scientific communication.
How does CoVID-19 spread? What do potential treatments look like? How long will quarantine have to go?
Check out this resource to get reliable answers to your CoVID-19 questions and insights on where we go from here.
A Hint of Science
We believe barriers between scientists and the general public can be broken down by integrating science with the human experience. Science, in its many forms, is an important part of all of our daily lives: we use science when we cook, when we interact, and even when we create.
Check out our newest section, A Hint of Science, a place where we use artistic expression as a means to communicate science through the lens of humanity.
Grad Life
If you take anything away from this site, we want it to be this: the life of a scientist does not lack emotion, excitement or substance. Not by a long shot. Scientists are people too: people who really want to know how the world works. And here at PassioInventa, people who want you to understand as well.
Give our Grad Life section a visit to see what goes on behind lab walls, what makes us passionate, and how science has changed our lives.
Q & A
Do you have questions about the world around you? Good. Asking questions is pretty much what we do for a living.
There’s a lot we don’t know, and a lot about the world we don’t yet understand. But every scientist you meet helps shrink that “great unknown” just a little bit. Come ask us a question at our Q & A section and we will make sure you get it answered by an expert.
News
The life of a scientist, believe it or not, is an exciting one! We are always up to something - traveling to some conference, doing fieldwork in some exotic location, feeding some glowing chemical to a dangerous bacteria… in our world, there is never a dull moment.
Come check out our News section to see what our team is up to - and where they are in the world.
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What are you interested in?
Explore some of the topics we are passionate about, such as the earth sciences, medicine, nutrition and fitness science, genetics, the life of a scientist, or pseudoscience, and much more.
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About
Our writers are studying in graduate programs across the country, and come from all over the world. Our diverse backgrounds and experiences offer an equally diverse set of opinions that span a wide range of the scientific world. If you have a question, ask us. If you want to learn about something, let us know. Click here to find out about our mission, our writers, and what we’re here to do.