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August 10, 2005
Great science storytellers launch Banff Centre communications program
Science Communications Program Kick-off
Thursday, August 18, 7:30 p.m.
Max Bell Auditorium, The Banff Centre, Free
Discovery Channel star Jay Ingram will be in Banff next week to MC the launch of The Banff Centre’s newest program, designed to advance the practice of science communications. One of Canada’s most popular writers and broadcasters, and chair of the new Science Communications program, Ingram will host the program’s public launch on Thursday, August 18 at The Banff Centre.
The Centre is already home to both the Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery, and one of Canada’s top professional development programs for creative and non-fiction writers. The core two-week residency for the new program, which will begin in August, 2006, is aimed at writers and broadcasters in science communications nationally and internationally, working in journalism, communications, research, education, or other forms of scientific outreach.
To officially launch the program on August 18, Ingram will host presentations by scientists including Sidney Nagel, professor of physical sciences at the University of Chicago, Allison Sekuler, professor and Canada Research Chair in psychology at McMaster University, Adam Summers, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California, with imagery from David Goodsell, a scientific illustrator and molecular biologist at The Scripps Research Institute in California, and visualization scientist Maria Lantin of the Centre’s Banff New Media Institute.
This free program, open to the public, will be followed by a reception.
For more information on Science Communications at The Banff Centre:
http://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/program.aspx?id=344
Media Contact
Jill Sawyer
Media and Communications Officer, The Banff Centre
403.762.6475