Event Detail (Archived)

Getting the Public Beyond a Blind Date With Science

  • This event already took place in November 2012
  • Caspary Auditorium

Event Details

Type
Other Seminars
Speaker(s)
Alan Alda, actor and science advocate; visiting professor, Center for Communicating Science, Stony Brook University
Open to
Public
Contact
Emily Harms
Phone
(212) 327-8090
Sponsor
Emily Harms
(212) 327-8090
harmse@rockefeller.edu

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