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Announcements
Celebrating Our New Program Directors, Heather Mannix and Heather Reiff!
We are excited to announce the promotion of Heather Mannix and Heather Reiff to COMPASS’s leadership team as Director of Science Solutions and Director of Trainings, respectively.
“Both have been an important part of COMPASS for many years and have been instrumental in strengthening our efforts to help science leaders step into their purpose. Heather Reiff a...
Policy Tips
Which state policymakers are reading your science communication emails, really?
Jessica Pugel is a Research Associate at the Research-to-Policy Collaboration. She studies how to improve relationships between researchers and policymakers with the goal of increasing the use of research in policy, and recently published a paper in Policy & Internet about state legislator email engagement. Jessica holds an M.A. in Psychology (emphasis in Socia...
Announcements
The Growing COMPASS Team
The COMPASS team has grown in the last few months! This year we’ve welcomed six fantastic new people on our team to help us meet our ambitious plans for the future. As fall is a time for reflection, we wanted to ask our new staff members to share a piece of content that has had an impact on their work and life. We hope their recommendations give you a glimpse int...
Coaching & Strategic Support
Simple Steps to Improve Time Management
Throughout the ongoing pandemic, how and where we spend our time has changed. Whether your commute has been drastically reduced to a short walk to a home desk, you’re traveling less, or spending more time on zoom than you thought possible - we’ve all been figuring out how to adapt our working lives to operate in more virtual environments. Although how we spend ...
Reflections
Cardinal Points
When I came across the job posting for my role at COMPASS I completed my application in one sitting, submitting my materials just a couple hours after I found the opening. I felt like I’d finally found the niche I was looking for, a space squarely in between science and solutions.
Starting at COMPASS just over two years ago, I entered the broad and wonderful...