Tickets available for Senior Common Room Dinner "Scientists and Journalists --Compare and Contrast" by Cory Dean

Tickets available for Senior Common Room Dinner "Scientists and Journalists -- Compare and Contrast"
Monday, December 3, 5:30p Reception, 6:00p Dinner

The lecture will be given by Cory Dean. Dean was science editor of The New York Times from 1997 to 2003, during which she was responsible for coverage of science, health and medical news in the daily paper and in the weekly Science Times section. She also has been assistant and then deputy science editor, as well as deputy editor of the paper’s Washington bureau.

Her first book, Against the Tide: The Battle for America’s Beaches, published in 1999, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. She is working on a book about the misuse of scientific information in American public life.

Dean is a lecturer in Harvard University’s Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences. As a fellow at the Kennedy School of Government in 2003-2004, she taught in Harvard’s program on Environmental Science and Public Policy.

A limited number of free tickets will be available at the Dudley House Office on the 3rd floor beginning Monday, November 19th, at 9 a.m. If you are a Longwood student please contact the House Office at 617-495-2255 and the Dudley House will make arrangements for you to get your tickets. Contact Yanyan Liu (liu3@fas.harvard.edu) for more information.