Workshop

Distilling Your Message with the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science
Wednesday April 20th, 2016 1pm-3:00pm
CNSI Auditorium
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.

This event is co-sponsored by the UCLA Career Center and UCLA Graduate Division

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