Newsday science writer to present Sokol Science
Lecture, 10/7
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| Laurie Garrett |
She's the only writer to have received the three "Big P's"
of journalism--the Peabody, the Polk (twice) and the Pulitzer--and on
Tuesday health writer Laurie Garrett will deliver the Margaret and Herman
Sokol Science Lecture: "The Plague: Bioterror, Emerging Diseases
and a World Out of Balance."
The event will take place on Tuesday, Oct. 7, beginning at 8 p.m. in Memorial
Auditorium. It is free to faculty, staff, students and alumni; general
admission tickets are $10.
Garrett is the author of two best-selling books on public health: The
Coming Plague, which addresses the emergence of global disease epidemics,
and Betrayal of Trust, which chronicles the collapse of the global
healthcare system. Both books are wake-up calls for the global community,
and have attracted the attention of policy makers, public health advocates
and those interested in preserving global health and well-being.
Garrett graduated with honors in biology from the University of California
in Santa Cruz. She attended graduate school in the Department of Bacteriology
and Immunology at UC Berkeley and did research at Stanford University.
During her Ph.D. studies, Garrett started reporting on science news at
a local radio station, KFPA, where one of her documentary series won the
1977 George Foster Peabody Award in Broadcasting, and other production
efforts gained her the Armstrong and CPB Awards.
In 1980, Garrett joined National Public Radio (NPR) as a science correspondent.
During her NPR years she was honored by the National Press Club (Best
Consumer Journalism, 1982), the San Francisco Media Alliance (Meritorious
Achievement Award in Radio, 1983) and the World Hunger Alliance (First
Prize, Radio, 1987).
In 1988 Garrett left NPR to join the science writing staff of Newsday,
where she remains today. Her Newsday reporting has earned her several
awards including the magazine's Publisher's Award (Best Beat Reporter,
1990), Award of Excellence from the National Association of Black Journalists
("AIDS in Africa," 1989) and the Bob Considine Award of the
Overseas Press Club of America ("AIDS in India," 1995).
Through a generous gift from Margaret Sokol '38, the Margaret and Herman
Sokol Science Lectures have been established to allow members of the University
and surrounding communities to gain a greater appreciation and expanded
knowledge of important issues in science.
Each semester a speaker of national or international renown is invited
to campus to meet with faculty and students, and conduct an evening public
seminar.
First NJEDge.Net conference to be held this month
The first Annual NJEDge.Net conference--"Collaboration Through Networking:
Technology in Education"-- will be held Oct. 30-31 at the Merrill
Lynch Conference Center in Plainsboro. An opening reception and pre-conference
workshops will take place in the evening on Oct. 29.
The conference celebrates the creation of New Jersey's Higher Education
Network and will provide live demonstrations of the resources and capabilities
of the network highlighting collaborative applications at member institutions
in real time. Montclair State University is one of the founding member
institutions associated with the NJEDge.Net project.
Keynote speakers include Mark Resmer, chief technology officer at eCollege;
David Pogue, technology columnist of The New York Times; Phillip
D. Long, senior strategist at MIT; and Michael Zostrocky of the Gartner
Group.
Registration information and program details including session descriptions
and speakers' biographies are available at http://www.njedge.net/conference2003/.
The NJEDge.Net is a high-bandwidth statewide network dedicated exclusively
to facilitating collaboration among institutions of higher education and
affiliated members (schools, museums, libraries, corporate partners, etc.)
through a statewide extranet that provides unimpeded voice, data and video
transmission with guaranteed quality of service among the EDge.Net members.
The conference will demonstrate the potential benefits of participation
in the network and also some of the services offered, including our affiliate
membership to the Internet II project.
'Show Boat' comes to campus
MOC Musical Theatre of Upper Montclair, now in its 79th season, will present
a staged reading/concert production of Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome
Kern's "Show Boat" in Memorial Auditorium from Oct. 17-19.
This classic musical includes numbers such as "Ol' Man River,"
"Make Believe," "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man," "Bill,"
"You Are Love," "Life Upon the Wicked Stage," "Why
Do I Love You" and "Cotton Blossom."
Performances are 8 p.m. Oct. 17 and 18, and 2 p.m. Oct. 19. Tickets, ranging
from $15 to $25, can be purchased by calling the MSU box office at 973-655-5112.
For more information on MOC Musical Theatre, go to http://www.mocmusicals.org.