Colleagues,
Campus communicators are encouraged to refer their researchers to the
National Science Foundation "Science: Becoming the Messenger" workshop that
will be held on campus Nov. 7-8, 2012.
The first day of the workshop (November 7) is also open to public
information officers on campus. The second day is open by invitation only to
a limited number of researchers.
TN-SCORE and the UT Office of research are cohosting the event.
Best.
Bill
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Bill Dockery
Coordinator, Research Communication
http://utk.edu/research/
Office of Research, University of Tennessee
1534 White Avenue
Knoxville, TN 37996-1529
865-974-2187
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Big ORANGE. Big IDEAS.
Deadline nears for NSF "Becoming the Messenger" workshop
A National Science Foundation communications workshop designed to improve
the public communications skills of researchers will be held on the
University of Tennessee campus on November 7-8, 2012. The deadline for
registration is October 26, 2012.
"Science: Becoming the Messenger" is designed to help university researchers
at all experience and education levels communicate effectively with a broad
public. Workshops on November 7 will be open to principal investigators,
early-career researchers, postdocs, and graduate students from UT and other
academic institutions. Public information officers at UT and other schools
in Tennessee are also invited.
Sessions on November 8 will be limited to a small group of selected
researchers who will receive intensive communications training. There is no
registration fee, but preregistration is required. Sessions will be held in
the UT Conference Center.
TN-SCORE and the UT Office of Research are cohosting the event.
Registration deadline -- October 26, 2012, online at
http://www.nsf.gov/events/event_summ.jsp?cntn_id=125293&org=NSF
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