Tanvi Dutta Gupta's NSC ePortfolio

This document is an archive of an electronic portfolio (ePortfolio) produced as a capstone requirement for the Notation in Science Communication. In their ePortfolios, NSC students demonstrate how they have met the NSC learning outcomes. These learning portfolios detail students’ growth and development as scientists and science communicators rather than showcasing only their best work. ePortfolios are reviewed and approved by faculty, earning students a special designation on their official Stanford transcript that reflects their science communication acumen.

I am a citizen, a scientist, and a storyteller. As my landing page of my portfolio tells you, I come from many places. I use my ePortfolio to introduce my audience to the architecture of one place that shaped my science communication in particular: the rainforest. In a tour through three key rainforest layers, I take the audience on a journey with the goal of introducing and illuminating the ecology of my science communication journey.

At the topsoil, I share pieces that have helped me define my values as a scientist and person and communicator. This includes everything from the podcast that helped me articulate my responsibilities as an overseas citizen to the poetry that reminded me how home felt.

Moving up, in the undergrowth, I demonstrate where I implemented those values into direct science communication. Like the undergrowth, these pieces are diverse—scientific papers, fact sheets, long-form essays—but they help show the breadth of scientific fields I’ve had a chance to explore, and the ways I’ve navigated their complexities and confusions to find the light.

Finally, in the emergent layer, I show the pieces that I feel represent my future directions as much as possible. The works here, including op-eds, essays, and more, emphasize environmental justice, community engagement, and the radically imaginative power of art. They describe and define where my science, my communication, and my science communication reaches.

Most photographs on the website were taken by me, and as the audience walks away, I hope they leave with a sense of who I am, what I do, and where I hope to go.