A key focus of the Risk Science Symposium this past September was examining at the concepts and fields of risk, innovation and sustainability. In our quest to consider them from as many view points as possible, we had the pleasure of having David Zaruk, who writes a blog called The Risk Monger, present a keynote [...]
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Day two of last month’s 2011 Risk Science Symposium opened with a brilliant talk by David Munson, Robert J. Vlasic Dean of Engineering here at the University of Michigan College of Engineering, on the role of Universities in innovation and sustainability. Below is the transcript of his remarks David Munson. Opening Comments – Day 2. [...]
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Last month, John Viera – Ford Motor Co.’s Director of Sustainability – kicked off the 2011 Risk Science Symposium with a great presentation on why innovation and sustainability are critical to the economic and social growth of the 21st century. This is the transcript of that talk. Innovate or Perish Why Innovation and Sustainability are [...]
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One of this year’s Risk Science Symposium highlights was James Wilsdon’s keynote speech on the UK’s approach to governing novel technologies. Dr. Wilsdon is Director of the Science Policy Center at the Royal Society. The transcript of his talk is below. James Wilsdon. Governing novel technologies – a UK Perspective. 2011 Risk Symposium from UM [...]
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Today’s New York Times includes a report that citizens groups in and around Tokyo have been performing radiation testing separate from government efforts. Of concern, these groups are finding hot spots of radiation, including several spots with levels of radioactive cesium comparable to those observed in areas near the Chernobyl reactor in Russia. There is [...]
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A couple of weeks ago, I gave my students an exercise in designing a poster presentation. Rather than focus on the usual stuff of readability, use of logical sections, figures etc, I wanted to start off with narrative, and how you use it to convey your ideas to your audience effectively – telling stories through [...]
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Every fall, I teach a graduate seminar in risk communication at the University of Michigan. I’ve been revising the class reading list over the summer, both to add newer material but also to remind myself of the key messages I try to communicate. One of these key messages comes up most cleanly in the class [...]
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Students at the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health complete an internship in the summer between their first and second years in the program. Students travel far and wide to work on some of the most important issues in public health today. A few months ago we asked students working in areas related to human health [...]
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One of the most difficult lessons I try to teach the students in my health communication course is that providing less information can often be more effective than trying to be “comprehensive.” This fact is I think clearly shown in a paper that I wrote with Professor Peter Ubel and post-doctoral fellow Andrea Angott of [...]
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Given the unfolding events around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan, I took the opportunity last week to substitute my Risk Assessment lecture with a question and answer session with two University of Michigan health physics experts – Kim Kearfott and Jim Martin. It’s a bit like watching CSpan for an hour and [...]
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“Human beings with the tears dried off.” That’s how Paul Slovic recently described the dry statistics that are supposed to help us understand the scope of human tragedies such as genocide and, more recently, the earthquakes and tsunamis that have devastated Japan. As Slovic and many others have shown, people are remarkably insensitive are to [...]
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Andrew Maynard will speak on Thursday February 10, 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm at The University of Michigan Department of Psychology Decision Consortium Seminar. The seminar will be held at 3048 East Hall. We all know that there are consequences to asking some questions – “do you really think that’s a good idea?”, “did you [...]
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Andrew Maynard will speak on Wednesday, February 23, 3:30-5:00 at The University of Michigan Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine (CBSSM). The seminar will be held at 300 N. Ingalls, Rm. 7C09 Ann Arbor, MI. Technology innovation is massively expanding the choices we have as individuals and members of an increasingly global society – choices [...]
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Brian Zikmund-Fisher will speak on Thursday February 3, 3:00 – 4:30 pm at The University of Michigan Department of Psychology Decision Consortium Seminar. The seminar will be held at 3048 East Hall Ann Arbor, MI. Pictographs / icon arrays visually display risk information by using a matrix of units to represent the at-risk population and using color [...]
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Andrew Maynard will speak on Wednesday, February 2, 3:30-5:00 at The University of Michigan Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine (CBSSM). The seminar will be held at 300 N. Ingalls, Rm. 7C09 Ann Arbor, MI. Technology innovation is massively expanding the choices we have as individuals and members of an increasingly global society – choices [...]
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A few weeks ago, I gave a talk at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati under the slightly provocative title “Small Gods and the Art of Technology Innovation”. The talk is now available on-line (slides and audio at least) – and viewable below – through the excellent work of the folk at CAC. Rather sneakily, [...]
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Back in the mists of time, I was approached with a crazy proposition – would I help co-edit a book on nanotechnologies regulation! In a moment of weakness I said yes, and a little more than two and a half years later, the book is finally about to hit the shelves. I actually think the [...]
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Cross-posted from 2020 Science Today was my first Poster Day at the School of Public Health. For those readers not intimately attuned to the School’s calendar (i.e. most of you), it’s a chance for second year Masters students to present and talk about their Summer field experiences (something all students are required to do). As [...]
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Risk Science Unplugged: Risk Rage Transcript
by Shara Evans on November 29, 2011
Earlier this month, the Risk Science Center had the pleasure of hosting Dr. Craig Cormick (who wrote or most recent guest blog on Issues in Public Engagement on Nanotechnology) for our Risk Science Unplugged series, which focuses on engaging leading experts in conversation on key issues that have evolved at the intersection between risk and [...]
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