pro-poor, pro-nature & pro-women.
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| Making Science Sing |
| - Jeremy Webb, Editor, New Scientist, London, UK |
| (Public Lecture) |
All
are Welcome!! |
| Theme of the lecture |
| New Scientist is one of the world's best-selling popular science magazines. It is read by hundreds of thousands of scientists and lay people alike around the world. It owes much of its popularity to the fact that it is a lively, exciting read. So how do you make science compelling? Jeremy Webb, Editor of New Scientist, will discuss how the magazine works, its goals and how it achieves them. And he will explore on of the biggest areas scientific controversy in recent years -- the debacle over genetically modified crops. |
| Date: 10 December 2004 |
| Time : 11:30 - 12:30 [Tea: 1100 - 1130] |
| Venue: Sambasivan Auditorium, MSSRF |
| About Jeremy Webb...... |
 Jeremy
Webb is a journalist with a long history of reporting
energy and development issues. While at the BBC
in the 1980s, where he worked as a sound engineer
and radio producer, he reported on appropriate
technology schemes in India. Since joining New
Scientist in 1991, he has travelled to Kenya and
Uganda to cover scientific research and development
projects in those countries. His first job at
New Scientist was as Deputy News Editor with special
responsibility for energy issues. During this
time he wrote and edited articles on everything
from the Sizewell B and Superphenix nuclear power
plants to the aftermath of Chernobyl and the arrival
of low-cost renewable energy technologies. He
also reported on the growing solar power industry
in Kenya. |
| Jeremy became Features Editor of New Scientist in 1996 and Editor in 1999. He was educated at the University of Exeter where he received a BSc (Hon) in physics and solid-state electronics. |