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| Rush-hour traffic is a nuisance to commuters, but it is a captive audience to communicators. By virtue of its dynamic and colorful repertoire, chemistry lends itself naturally to visual forms of public outreach for the same reasons that demos are indispensable to chemical educators. Nevertheless, public radio stations across the country offer a mix of audio opportunities for chemists to tell their side of the story to attentive listeners. In this talk, I will share my experiences working with news producers at the jazz-format NPR station that serves the metropolitan Nashville market (www.wmot.org on the internet dial). My weekly “Chemical Eye” commentaries are about 4 1/2 minutes in length, and run the gamut of possible topics. While they all touch on chemistry in one way or another, the real objective is to help listeners realize the many ways that chemistry touches them.
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Communicating Chemistry
1:30 PM-4:55 PM, Tuesday, March 27, 2007 McCormick Place North -- Room N227B, Level 2, Oral
Division of Chemical Education |