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Past Events
This represents an archive of past HCRC events. Each event includes a brief description and any resource materials that came from the event.
Date: March 13-15, 2009
Event:Darwin Days - The 5th Annual MU Life Sciences & Society Symposium
The 2009 Life Sciences & Society Symposium commemorates Darwin's 200th birthday and the 150th anniversary of On the Origin of Species. The interdisciplinary weekend event is free and open to the public.
"Darwin's Ongoing Revolution" will provide a rare opportunity to explore the way evolutionary thought continues to reshape existing fields and create new ones in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Seven international speakers, representing the leading edges of new fields, will address new directions in research, new challenges to traditional disciplinary boundaries, and public perceptions of the (expanding) role of evolution.
Symposium Speakers:
- David Sloan Wilson (Binghamton University, biology)
- Randolph Nesse (University of Michigan Medical School, evolutionary medicine)
- Michael Ruse (Florida State University, philosophy of biology)
- Gillian Beer (Cambridge University, literature & science)
- Ann Gibbons (Journalist, Science; author of The First Human)
- Ron Numbers (University of Wisconsin, cultural historian of relations between religion and science)
- David Geary (University of Missouri, evolutionary psychology)
More than 500 people attended the two-day event.
Date: March 12, 2009
Place:Tucker Forum
Event: Filmmaker Randy Olson, Brown Bag Lecture Series
Description: Filmmaker and former biologist Dr. Randy Olson's documentary film "Flock of Dodos" (84 minutes) probes the great communications struggle around evolution vs. intelligent design being waged in today's mainstream media. Olson's humorous, enlightening and sometimes sobering journey includes in-depth interviews with top experts on intelligent design, school board members, and lawyers, and footage from an evening with evolutionists who gather for a game of poker and evolution debate.
Randy Olson got his Ph.D. from Harvard University in ecology, but has become a well-known film maker of both serious interviews with a wide variety of scientists and fishermen and a series of humorous film shorts that are educational and irreverent. He is a lecturer at the University of Southern California and leads an organization known as Shifting Baselines (www.shiftingbaselines.org) that educates the public about the tremendous changes in natural communities that have occurred, to an extent that current generations cannot understand just how biologically rich the world was just a few generations ago. His website has a series of film shorts on this topic that are poignant and highly informative.
More than 20 people attended.
Date: October 28, 2005
Event: "The Role of Media in Covering and Shaping Health Policy"
Description: Julie Rovner, health policy correspondent for National Public Radio presented "The Role of Media in Covering and Shaping Health Policy" at the Sinclair School of Nursing. About 20 people from the School of Journalism and Sinclair School of Nursing attended the event.
Date: May 12, 2005
Event: America's Emerging Health Care Crisis
Description: "America's Emerging Health Care Crisis" was a free workshop open to the general public that featured presentations about topic such as disease economics and the impact of arthritis, controversies in drug regulation, and how media gatekeepers approach medical issues and decide how and what to present to the public. The speakers were:
- Rear Admiral Steven Galson, MD, Acting Director, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, FDA
- Geneva Overholser, Curtis B. Hurley Chair in Public Affairs Reporting, Missouri School of Journalism, and former ombudsman for The Washington Post
- Captain Joe Sniezek, MD, MPH, U.S Public Health Service Chief, Arthritis Program National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC
Media coverage:Several media outlets from around the state attended the event and did interviews, including: Columbia Missourian, St. Louis Post Dispatch, KOMU-TV, KFRU radio, Strategic Healthcare Marketing (a trade publication), California Lawyer magazine.
Resources: Learn about speakers and presentations.
Date: Oct. 5, 2004
Event: Terror in the Heartland: New ideas for covering disasters that affect agriculture and health
Description: Terror in the Heartland was a free workshop to train reporters, editors and other professional communicators about how to better report on threats to our food supply, air and water.
Media coverage:Several media outlets from around the state did stories about the event, including KMIZ-17 and KRCG-13 in Columbia, KBIA radio, and KYTV-3 in Springfield. Stories also ran in the Columbia Missourian.
Resources: Learn about speakers, presentations, participants, and more.
Date: April 22, 2004
Event: Sixth Annual Research Day Cooperative Ph.D. Program in Nursing
Description: Four members of the HCRC participated in a roundtable discussion entitled "Multidisciplinary Research Collaboration: Health Communication Research Center of the MU Schools of Journalism and Nursing.” The participants were: HCRC Director Glen Cameron & Professor Cynthia Frisby, both from the Missouri School of Journalism and HCRC Director Jane Armer & Professor Louise Miller, both from the Sinclair School of Nursing.
Date: April 5, 2004
Event: Dunwoody and Miller to speak about "Scientists and Journalists: When Scientists Meet the Media"
Description: Health communication experts Sharon Dunwoody and Julie Ann Miller dissected the relationships between scientists and journalists, including what enhances those relationships and what damages them. Dunwoody is the Evjue Bascom Professor of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who teaches science communication writing and research courses. Miller is the editor of Science News, based in Washington, D.C.
Date: Feb. 16-17, 2004
Event: Dr. Glen Nowak of the CDC Visits MU
Description: Dr. Glen Nowak, associate director for communications for the National Immunization Program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, spoke to students and faculty at the Missouri School of Journalism and Sinclair School of Nursing about health communication issues such as immunization and recent epidemics such as the bird flu and Mad Cow disease.
Media Coverage: While in Columbia, Nowak was interviewed by several local media outlets, including KMIZ-TV, and KRCG-TV, "The Amy Miller Show" on 93.9 The Eagle. The Columbia Missourian also published a story on Nowak's visit entitled "CDC director touts disease awareness in lecture at MU."
Resources: Nowak's PowerPoint presentation "The 2003-2004 Influenza Season: Communication Challenges and Approaches" (Reprinted with permission). Also available as an Adobe PDF.
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