Talk: NPR Science Writer Richard Harris
Venue: Goodwin Hall (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg
Date: Wednesday, April 1, 2015
Time: 4:00 - 5:00 PM
Event Types: Speaking Engagements
Cost: Free
Description:
Virginia Tech's College of Engineering presents award-winning journalist and science writer for National Public Radio (NPR) Richard Harris for a free talk on Wednesday, April 1st in room 190 at Goodwin Hall.

Richard Harris, who has reported on a wide range of topics in science, medicine, and the environment, presents "Using the tools of science and journalism to make a difference."

The talk is free and open to Virginia Tech faculty, staff, students, and the general public.

Harris, who is now focusing on biomedical research in his reporting, has traveled to all seven continents for NPR. His reports have originated from Timbuktu, the South Pole, the Galapagos Islands, Beijing during the SARS epidemic, the center of Greenland, the Amazon rain forest, the foot of Mt. Kilimanjaro for a story about tuberculosis, and Japan to cover the nuclear aftermath of the 2011 tsunami.

In 2010, Harris' reporting revealed that the blown-out BP oil well in the Gulf of Mexico was spewing out far more oil than asserted in the official estimates. That revelation led the federal government to make a more realistic assessment of the extent of the spill.

Over the course of his career, Harris has been the recipient of many prestigious awards. Those include the American Geophysical Union's 2013 Presidential Citation for Science and Society. He shared the 2009 National Academy of Sciences Communication Award and was a finalist again in 2011. In 2002, Harris was elected an honorary member of Sigma Xi, the scientific research society. He shared a 1995 Peabody Award for investigative reporting on NPR about the tobacco industry. Since 1988, the American Association for the Advancement of Science has honored Harris three times with its science journalism award.

For more information, visit: http://www.vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2015/02/022515-engineering-richardharristospeak.html
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