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Thursday, May 31, 2012

Welcome to the Center for Communicating Science

This video, narrated by Alan Alda, a founding member of the Center's national advisory board, explains the thinking behind the Center and shows scenes from its workshops. http://youtu.be/UGo6pTcTgVw (39:56) Robert Desimone introduces keynote speaker Alan Alda at the 10th anniversary celebration of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT. As the former host of the long-running PBS series, "Scientific American Frontiers," Alda shares some advice on how scientists can communicate more effectively with the general public.