As new media proliferate and the public's trust and engagement in science are influenced by industry involvement in academic research, an interdisciplinary workshop provides some recommendations to enhance science communication.

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This article reports the principal findings and recommendations of the Research Roadmap Panel for Public Communication of Science and Technology in the Twenty-first Century. Beginning in 1998, the Space Sciences Laboratory at NASA's George C. Marshall Space Flight Center chartered a fifteen-member working group to develop a research strategy that would address the big questions in science communication academic research and identify the best practices in science and technology communication as they are being implemented in research institutions across the United States and abroad. The working group met eight times at various U.S. research institutions, invited science communicators and others to meet with them, and solicited public and other comment in preparation for this article.

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