Michigan State University's senior-level undergraduate physiology capstone laboratory uses a simple exercise termed "Physiology in the News," to help students explore the current research within the field of physiology while also learning to communicate science in lay terms. "Physiology in the News" is an activity that charges the students with finding, for themselves, press release information on where the field of physiology is today. This paper describes how this activity provides physiology students with several important skills required to be active and articulate physiologists, and encourages students to be well-informed scientific citizens and keep current on all areas of physiology.