Speakers

  • Denise Graveline

    Position/Organization: don’t get caught—creative communications consulting

    Denise Graveline is president of don't get caught, a communications consultancy focused on making sure you don't get caught without strategies, training and content. Graveline directed communications for the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Chemical Society; served as the Deputy Associate Administrator for communications, education and public affairs at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; and directed media relations for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

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  • Eric Hand

    Position/Organization: Nature; Knight Fellow

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  • Jo Handelsman

    Position/Organization: professor of molecular, cellular, and developmental biology, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.

    Jo Handelsman, Ph.D. is professor of molecular, cellular, and developmental biology, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. Her work on organisms in the soil and in the guts of humans and even insects has led to findings that are proving important in human disease and in pest control. It’s a case, she says, of basic research once again surprising us with unexpected and important practical implications.

    http://bbs.yale.edu/people/jo_handelsman.profile

    jo.handelsman@yale.edu

    203-432-9119

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  • David Harris

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  • Joshua Hatch

    Position/Organization: president, Online News Association; Interactives director, USA Today

  • Teresa Neilsen Hayden

    Position/Organization: community manager, BoingBoing

    Teresa Nielsen Hayden is a former Managing Editor and for many years has been a consulting editor for Tor Books. In 2006, Robert Charles Wilson's Spin, which she edited, won the Hugo Award for best novel of the year. She herself has been nominated for the Hugo five times, most recently for her essay collection Making Book. Since 1998, she has taught expository theory and cheap plot tricks at the annual Viable Paradise writers’ workshop on Martha’s Vineyard. In 2003, she invented disemvowelling.

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  • Laura Helmuth

    Position/Organization: science editor, Smithsonian

    Laura Helmuth is a senior editor for Smithsonian. She handles most of the magazine's stories about science, technology, nature and the environment, both in print and online. Before joining Smithsonian, she worked as a writer and editor for Science magazine's news department. She has written for National Wildlife, California Wild, Science News and a travel guide for Eastern Europe. She has a Ph.D. in cognitive neuroscience from the University of California at Berkeley and attended the science communication program at UC Santa Cruz.

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  • Earle Holland

    Position/Organization: assistant vice president for Research Communications, Ohio State University

    As assistant vice president for research communications, Earle Holland has headed research communications at Ohio State University for 32 years. As such, he is the senior communications official at OSU dealing with areas of research risks. He's served multiple terms on the board of the National Association of Science Writers as well as on the board of the Society of Environmental Journalists and on the national advisory committee for EurekAlert!. For 20 years, he also taught a graduate science reporting course at OSU's School of Journalism.

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  • Leroy Hood

    Position/Organization: President and Co-founder of the Institute for Systems Biology

    Leroy Hood, M.D., Ph.D., is a biologist and the president and co-founder of the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle. He pioneered the development of the DNA and protein sequencers and synthesizers that have revolutionized research in genomics. He helped found the Institute for Systems Biology in 2000 to pursue systems approaches to biology and medicine. He has participated in the founding of more than a dozen biotechnology companies.

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  • Toni Hope

    Position/Organization: health editor, Good Housekeeping

    Pitching for Good Housekeeping

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