Lab Change Log

Our Change Log records the Civic Science Media Lab’s evolution. Here, you’ll find a chronological summary of notable updates, new features, personnel, and improvements to programs and initiatives in the Lab and the main terminal. We aim to keep our community informed on the steps we’re taking to enhance accessibility, functionality, and engagement as we work to make civic science scholarship and practice more accessible to all.

• 2024-11-01: CivicSciTV Network is added to the CASW Connector as a resource.
• 2024-10-03: CivicSciTV Network passes the 500 subscriber mark on YouTube.
• 2024-07-24: Leaders of the Seattle Math Museum showcase their CivicSciTV interview on their website.
• 2024-06-10: The Civic Science Funding landscape dashboard is launched.
• 2024-05-01: CS Media Lab receives sponsorship from the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYC-EDC) for a special series on the CivicSciTV Network about civic science projects the organization has supported.
• 2024-04-29: SaiTV on YouTube is formally renamed to CivicSciTV.
• 2024-04-01: CivicSciTV Radio is launched on Spotify.
• 2024-04-01: CS Media Lab receives grant from the Rita Allen Foundation.
• 2024-02-01: Website data from storiesinscience.org, saicollective.org, YouTube, and other databases begin migration to the central website.
• 2024-01-15: CivicScienceMedia.org is formally registered and website is launched.
• 2023-10-15: The Civic Science Media Lab Awarded its 1st formal Civic Science Journalism Research Grant from the Berlin Science Festival
• 2023-11-11: In partnership with the Lasker Foundation and Research!America, CS Media Lab launches the 1st dashboard visualizing the landscape of public engagement training in the US.
• 2023-06-15: Lab hosts dinner with scholars and practitioners in Washington DC
• 2023-07-01: The Changemakers Fellows program is retired and is transitioned to a residency model.
• 2023-04-28: Civic Science Times Reporter Gina Errico Selected as AAAS Mass Media Science & Engineering Fellow
• 2023-02-24: Lab Director selected by the Lasker Foundation and Research!America to lead landscaping project.
• 2022-12-05: Lab hosts 2022 Fellows pitch day.
• 2022-12-04: Former Lab Fellow Sarah Lamm Secures Funding from the Kansas Geological Foundation for ‘Rocks and Rockets’
• 2022-11-28: CivicSciTV Interview Featured by the eLife Open Science Champions November Newsletter
• 2022-11-28: Capital University features Cohort 8 Fellow’s Initiative ‘Girls in Science Day’
• 2022-11-17: Lab hosts 3rd community dinner for scholars and practitioners in Boston.
• 2022-10-28: CS Media Lab invited by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy to share insights
• 2022-10-24: Former SRC Fellow in the Lab featured by the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard
• 2022-10-13: Resident Kristel Tjandra in the SRC is awarded the National Academies Eric and Wendy Schmidt Award for Excellence in Science Communication
• 2022-10-02: CS Media Lab provides inaugural supplemental funding to 5 residents in the collective.
• 2022-09-16: 8th Cohort of Fellows Join the CS Media Lab’s SRC.
• 2022-08-30: Lab Hosts 1st Dinner Meet Up in Washington DC.
• 2022-07-01: CS Media Lab renames the ‘Stem Advocacy Institute’ to the Sai Resident Collective (SRC).
• 2022-05-02: CS Media Lab launches its Endowment Fund.
• 2021-11-29: Lab Hosts its 2nd Annual Dinner in Boston for scholars and pracitioners.
• 2021-10-04: CS Media Lab welcomes Fellows Cohort 6 in the SRC
• 2021-07-22: CS Media Lab hosts first summer symposium: A time for reflections and celebrations!
• 2021-06-21: ASCB grant funds the CS Media Lab to further develop the Summer Internship Program
• 2021-05-08: CS Media Lab Builds India Covid19 Initiative List to Help Donors Find Orgs
• 2021-03-22: Lab Welcomes 5th Cohort of Fellows.
• 2021-02-14: Lab Director Fanuel Muindi Among 1000 Inspiring Black Scientists
• 2020-11-26: Cohort 4 Fellows Pitch their Projects on Demo Day
• 2020-11-30: Stories in science chapter creation endeavor is discontinued.
• 2020-11-19: CS Media Lab Receives First Grant for New Society Art Gallery
• 2020-11-03: CS Media Lab selected as one of 5 finalist non-profit organizations to pitch at the 2020 Life Science and Healthcare Non-profits in Massachusetts Pitch Challenge
• 2020-08-28: CS Media Lab Awarded Burroughs Wellcome Fund Grant to support the fellows program.
• 2020-08-20: The Lab celebrates the inaugural Summer Intern Class.
• 2020-03-27: CS Media Lab invited to present at Cornell University
• 2019-11-25: Columbia becomes the first university to create a Stories in Science Chapter
• 2019-11-08: CS Media Lab Presents the Stories in Science project at the Inaugural Watch:City Science & Technology Forum at Brandeis University.
• 2019-10-15: Emily Sherman from the CS Media Lab presents a poster at the 2019 MIT Global Bio Summit
• 2019-09-22: CS Media Lab Invited by the Columbia Neuroscience Society to the first Encephalon Conference
• 2019-08-20: CS Media Lab Presents at the New York Academy of Sciences
• 2019-08-12: Stories in Science project Exhibits in Central Square, Cambridge.
• 2019-08-04: CS Media Lab Participates in the 2019 Gender Summit in Singapore
• 2019-07-29: CS Media Lab Attends a National Academy Planning Meeting on Creating a High-Impact Award for the Public Understanding of Science
• 2019-07-27: CS Media Lab Interviewed by SCATV.
• 2019-06-26: CS Media Lab presents at the 2019 CESTEMER Conference in NYC.
• 2019-05-18: Lab’s Stories in Science Presents at Harvard’s 1st DIB Conference
• 2019-04-16: Lab hosts 1st Stories in Science Gallery at the Cambridge Science Festival
• 2019-03-05: The stories in science project in the lab selected for the 2019 Cambridge Science Festival.
• 2019-01-19: CS Media Lab launches the Fellows Program.
• 2019-01-01: The lab receives trademark for ‘Stories in Science’
• 2018-09-30: WBRS Radio Station Interviews lab director/founder Fanuel Muindi.
• 2018-08-97: CS Media Lab receives 501c3 Non Profit Status as ‘Stem Advocacy Institute’
• 2017-10-13: Cracking the Code: The Next Generation of Women in STEM
• 2017-09-10: Lab Director Fanuel Muindi presents at the UNESCO’s 2017 International Symposium in Bangkok
• 2017-07-02: Lab Director Invited to serve on a panel at ComSciCon 2017 at Harvard University
• 2017-07-01: Lab Publishes its first book titled ‘Journeys in Science’
• 2016-12-01: ‘Stories in Science’ initiative is launched.
• 2015-12-03: The domain name stemadvocacy.org is registered.
• 2013-01-01: Early discussions about the lab began, resulting in several published letters and articles in Nature setting the stage for continued work in mapping the landscape of civic science.