Marissa Buccilli: Translating medical uncertainty and risk

Written in Fall 2025 by Abbie Smith in ​ENGL ​4824​: Science Writing ​as part of a collaboration among the English department, the Center for Communicating Science, and the U.S. National Science Foundation COMPASS Center. The COMPASS Center is tackling the grand challenge of uncovering the genetic, molecular, cellular, and chemical rules of life underlying virus-host interactions through community-based and ethically grounded research. It is one of four Predictive Intelligence for Pandemic Prevention (PIPP) centers funded by the National Science Foundation.