The 20th Annual Horace W. Davenport Lecture in Medical Humanities
Science Journalism Under the Microscope: From Covid to Climate Control / Speaker: Professor Deborah Blum, Director of the Knight Science Journalism Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Monday, April 19, 2021
3:00-4:00 PM
Virtual
The Center for the History of Medicine and the Department of English Language and Literature are pleased to announce the 20th Annual Horace W. Davenport Lecture in the Medical Humanities.
This year's lecture will feature Professor Deborah Blum, Director of the Knight Science Journalism Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Blum is a Pulitzer Prize winning science journalist, columnist and author of six books, most recently, The Poison Squad, a 2018 New York Times Notable Book, and the subject of a 2020 PBS documentary.
Blum will deliver her lecture, "Science Journalism Under the Microscope: From COVID to Climate Change," where she will explores the sometimes mysterious (to others) ways that journalists pick stories, balance evidence, find sources, and spin their tales, using examples from some of the most important stories of the last decade to illustrate good choices and bad, mistakes and successes, to make some essential and insightful points about the profession.
Blum won the Pulitzer in 1992 for a series on primate research that became her first book, The Monkey Wars. She has since focused on key moments in the history of science with books including Love at Goon Park (2002), Ghost Hunters (2006), the New York Times bestseller, The Poisoner’s Handbook (2010). A co-editor of A Field Guide for Science Writers (2006), she is now under contract with Oxford University Press as a co-editor of a forthcoming guide to science journalism. She has worked as a science columnist for The New York Times, a blogger for Wired, and has written for other publications ranging from The Wall Street Journal to Mother Jones. She was the Helen Firstbrook Franklin professor of journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for 15 years before being selected as the fourth director of the Knight Science Journalism Program in 2015. Shortly later, she launched the online science magazine, Undark, which now numbers a readership in the millions and has won numerous national awards, including the George K. Polk Award.
Blum is a former president of the National Association of Science Writers, was a member of the governing board of the World Federation of Science Writers, and currently serves on the board of the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing, and on advisory boards of Chemical & Engineering News, The Scientist and the MIT Museum. She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and a lifetime associate of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in recognition of her work in science communication.
Please join us for this engaging presentation from one of the nation’s premiere science journalists!
Monday, April 19, 2021
3:00 - 4:00 pm
Zoom link: https://umich.zoom.us/s/95201112797
This year's lecture will feature Professor Deborah Blum, Director of the Knight Science Journalism Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Blum is a Pulitzer Prize winning science journalist, columnist and author of six books, most recently, The Poison Squad, a 2018 New York Times Notable Book, and the subject of a 2020 PBS documentary.
Blum will deliver her lecture, "Science Journalism Under the Microscope: From COVID to Climate Change," where she will explores the sometimes mysterious (to others) ways that journalists pick stories, balance evidence, find sources, and spin their tales, using examples from some of the most important stories of the last decade to illustrate good choices and bad, mistakes and successes, to make some essential and insightful points about the profession.
Blum won the Pulitzer in 1992 for a series on primate research that became her first book, The Monkey Wars. She has since focused on key moments in the history of science with books including Love at Goon Park (2002), Ghost Hunters (2006), the New York Times bestseller, The Poisoner’s Handbook (2010). A co-editor of A Field Guide for Science Writers (2006), she is now under contract with Oxford University Press as a co-editor of a forthcoming guide to science journalism. She has worked as a science columnist for The New York Times, a blogger for Wired, and has written for other publications ranging from The Wall Street Journal to Mother Jones. She was the Helen Firstbrook Franklin professor of journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for 15 years before being selected as the fourth director of the Knight Science Journalism Program in 2015. Shortly later, she launched the online science magazine, Undark, which now numbers a readership in the millions and has won numerous national awards, including the George K. Polk Award.
Blum is a former president of the National Association of Science Writers, was a member of the governing board of the World Federation of Science Writers, and currently serves on the board of the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing, and on advisory boards of Chemical & Engineering News, The Scientist and the MIT Museum. She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and a lifetime associate of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in recognition of her work in science communication.
Please join us for this engaging presentation from one of the nation’s premiere science journalists!
Monday, April 19, 2021
3:00 - 4:00 pm
Zoom link: https://umich.zoom.us/s/95201112797
| Building: | Off Campus Location |
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| Location: | Virtual |
| Event Type: | Livestream / Virtual |
| Tags: | Humanities, Journalism, Literature, Medicine, Public Health, Social Sciences, Virtual, Writing |
| Source: | Happening @ Michigan from Center for the History of Medicine, Department of English Language and Literature |
