SCIENCE
for EVERYONE:
Lives in Science Writing
10 May 2004 Cornell University
Sage Hall B-09
A one-day conference on what it's like to
write about science.
This conference will introduce graduate students and faculty members to what life is like as a science writer. How do people get to the field, what are the daily challenges and thrills, what are some of the great war stories and examples?
9:30-10:00
Buffet breakfast
10:00-11:30
The Freelancing Life
Freelancing
from within academe: Meredith
Small, anthropologist,
Cornell University
Freelancing
from outside academe: Ivan Amato,
freelance writer
11:30-1:00
Lunch
[IGERT and COMM students invited to lunch with panelists]
1:00-3:00
Getting Science on the Air and in Print
In print: Rick Weiss, Washington Post
On the radio: Jonathan Miller, freelance radio producer
On
the TV: Robert
Krulwich, ABC News
3:00-3:30
Coffee
3:30-5:00
Writing Books, Winning Prizes, Hitting the Big Time
William H. Calvin, neurobiologist, University of Washington
Janna Levin, physicist, Barnard/Columbia
8:00
The Third Culture
John Brockman, founder of Brockman, Inc., a literary and software agency
Updated
22 April