Science Journalism Luncheon with The New Yorker's Michael Specter.Tuesday, April 8th, 12 noon - 1:30pmLearning and Teaching Center (Library 122)Michael Specter, award-winning staff writer for The New Yorker magazine, will meet with students to discuss careers in narrative journalism, reporting science to the public, and his own stories about the AIDS epidemic, avian flu, malaria, and the world's diminishing freshwater resources. Future journalists and writers, and students in the sciences, will find this lunch of particular interest.
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Employer: Grassroots Campaign. Sponsored by Career Development Office.
College Center, Faculty Commons
Program participant: Ira Flatow, science correspondent and award-winning host of National Public Radio's Talk of the Nation: Science Friday. Michael Specter (VC '77), science and technology writer at the "New Yorker," formerly at the "New York Times." Sharon Friedman, Ph.D., Professor and Director of the Science and Environmental Writing Program, Department of Journalism and Communication, and Associate Dean for Faculty and Staff in the College of Arts and Sciences, Lehigh University. L. Earl Gray, Ph.D., Program Coordinator, Reproductive Toxicology Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Adjunct Professor, Department of Environmental and Molecular Toxicology, North Carolina State University.
College Center, Villard Room
Claflin Lecture. Karyn Olivier, "Intimacy, Please.? Olivier, who was born in Trinidad and Tobago, received her M.F.A. at Cranbrook Academy of Art and her B.A. in psychology at Dartmouth College. In 2007, she was awarded a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a Joan Mitchell Foundation Award, and an Art Matters grant for her site-generated installations and sculptures. In 2008, Ms. Olivier will install two public art projects. Sponsored by the Art Department.
Taylor Hall, 203
College Center, 204
Rockefeller Hall, 200
Ruth Kluger, born in Vienna in 1931, at age 11 deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp, at age 12 moved to Auschwitz, then to a subcamp of Gross-Rosen, called Christianstadt. After fleeing during the chaos of the evacuation of the camps, and following her emigration to the U.S., Kluger studied philosophy, history, English and German literature and became a Professor teaching German literature in Cleveland, Ohio, Kansas, Virginia and at University of California, Irvine. Kluger, professor emerita of German literature, author, and Holocaust survivor will lecture on "The Aftermath: Living with Memories of the Holocaust." Sponsored by the German Department, and the History Department.
Ely Hall, Aula
Amnesty International screening of the documentary, "Why We Fight."
Rockefeller Hall, 300