Workshop
Distilling Your Message with the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science
Wednesday April 20th, 2016 1pm-3:00pm
CNSI Auditorium
Registration:
https://distilling-your-message-2016.eventbrite.com
This
session will cover general principles in how to craft short, clear,
conversational statements, intelligible
to non-scientists, about what you do and why it matters. Session
consists of an interactive presentation and discussion on interpreting
technical material using examples and analogies to illuminate unfamiliar
concepts to your audience. The plenary will address
problems and solutions in public interactions as well as peer-to-peer
communication. Participants will practice clarity in speaking to
non-scientists about their work and may be actively engaged in improv
exercises or explaining scientific material to lay
audiences.
Speaker:
Judy Muller
Judy
Muller is an award-winning broadcast journalist and professor at USC’s
Annenberg School for Communication
and Journalism. Previously, she was a correspondent for ABC News for
fifteen years, reporting for such broadcasts as World News with Peter
Jennings, Nightline, and 20/20. Muller is a workshop
facilitator-at-large for the Alan Alda Center for Communicating
Science.
This session is open to graduate students and postdocs from all disciplines.