Posted by Lesley McCullom
Do you love to listen to NPR’s “Science Friday”, or watch PBS’s “Nova”? Have you noticed increased coverage of science, health, and technology issues in popular media? Have you ever considered a career in science communications, or just wanted to learn more about it? Well mark your calendar for a singular educational and networking event this fall.
On Friday, October 3, the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) will host its first science communications summit, “Talking the Talk: New Careers for Today’s Scientists,” featuring four nationally known science communicators, in the UAB Hospital West Pavilion. The event is free and offers students and faculty a chance to hear about the communicators’ experiences during a panel session (noon to 2 p.m.), then have the opportunity to network (2 to 4 p.m.) and meet with the speakers in a more casual setting afterward at Fuego (4 p.m. on).
Speakers include Kirsten Sanford, Ph.D., neurophysiologist, creator/producer of “This Week in Science”, 2005 AAAS Mass Media Science & Engineering Fellow; Ben Young Landis, MEM, writer for the US Geological Survey, author of “Better Know a Fish” blog, and co-founder, Capital Science Communicators; Marla Broadfoot, Ph.D., a molecular geneticist, postdoc at NIH, former PIO at Duke University, and freelance science writer/author; and Russ Campbell, MLA, communications director for the Burroughs Wellcome Fund and co-founder of the Science Communicators of North Carolina.Do you love to listen to NPR’s “Science Friday”, or watch PBS’s “Nova”? Have you noticed increased coverage of science, health, and technology issues in popular media? Have you ever considered a career in science communications, or just wanted to learn more about it? Well mark your calendar for a singular educational and networking event this fall.
On Friday, October 3, the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) will host its first science communications summit, “Talking the Talk: New Careers for Today’s Scientists,” featuring four nationally known science communicators, in the UAB Hospital West Pavilion. The event is free and offers students and faculty a chance to hear about the communicators’ experiences during a panel session (noon to 2 p.m.), then have the opportunity to network (2 to 4 p.m.) and meet with the speakers in a more casual setting afterward at Fuego (4 p.m. on).
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Kirsten Sanford Ben Young Landis Marla Broadfoot Russ Campbell Ph.D. MEM Ph.D. MLA
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This is the first time that such an event has been held at UAB, according to Dr. Lisa Schwiebert, PhD, Professor of Cell, Developmental, and Integrative Biology; Associate Dean for Postdoctoral Education. “This effort came out of ongoing conversations about reports like the 2012 NIH Future of the Biomedical Workforce Report, which stressed that graduate and postdoctoral training programs increase trainees’ awareness of careers outside of academic research.”
Lunch will be provided. The summit, a model for future events in other alternative science career categories, is being organized through a collaborative effort of the UAB School of Medicine, the UAB College of Arts & Sciences, the Vice Provost for Student and Faculty Success, the UAB Graduate School, and the UAB Office of Postdoctoral Education.
See you there!
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