[Sci-tech-public] Knight Science Journalism at MIT Seminars - Tuesday, November 1 and Thursday, November 3

[Eric Strattman]

 Both seminars are from 4pm to 6pm, in the Knight Science Journalism at MIT seminar room, E19-623, MIT. 

November 1

Genomics invades the clinic.
Victor McElheny, founding director of the Knight Science Journalism Fellowships at MIT, and author of the book, Drawing the Map of Life, Inside the Human Genome Project.

McElheny is a longtime science writer who worked for The Charlotte Observer, Science magazine, The Boston Globe and The New York Times, reporting on such topics as science in Antarctica and Europe, the Apollo lunar landing program and the green revolution in Asia. At The Times during the 1970s, he founded one of the first technology columns in American newspapers.

His freelance work has included numerous articles for newspapers and magazines as well as television writing and appearances. In 1978 he joined Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory as the first director of the Banbury Center for conferences on environmental health risks and fundamental biology. He came to MIT in 1982 to create the fellowships program with funding from the Sloan Foundation and the Mellon Foundation.

Since his retirement in 1998 McElheny has published three books, Insisting on the Impossible: The Life of Edwin Land, Watson and DNA: Making a Scientific Revolution and Drawing the Map of Life, Inside the Human Genome Project.


**The seminar with Natasha Schull originally scheduled for November 1 has been postponed and will be rescheduled for the spring term.**




November 3
The energy crisis: a solar solution.
Daniel Nocera, Professor of Energy and Professor of Chemistry, MIT.

Daniel Nocera is at the forefront of research on renewable energy at the molecular level, focusing on mechanisms of energy conversion involving the water molecule. In 2005, Nocera was awarded the Italgas Prize, and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Nocera has received the American Institute of Chemists Award, and was appointed a Presidential Young Investigator and an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow. 

He serves on the Editorial Boards of Accounts of Chemical Research, Inorganic Chemistry, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Comments in Inorganic Chemistry. He was the inaugural Editor of Inorganic Chemistry Communications.

Nocera received his B.S. in 1979 from Rutgers University, and his Ph.D. from CalTech in 1984. He joined MIT in 1997.





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