ECS Podcast: Recent Episodes
The Electrochemical Society
The ECS Podcast aims to connect the dots between the sciences, over everyday lives, and the sustainability of the planet. Listen as we talk to some of the top scientists in the world and discuss today's most pressing issues and potential solutions.
Koen Kas is a healthcare futurist, entrepreneur, professor of molecular oncology, acclaimed international keynote speaker, and author of Sick No More and Your Guide to Delight.
Kas will be delivering the 235th ECS Meeting lecture, "Guardian Angels turning Sickcare into Healthcare," in Dallas, TX this May 2019.
We are podcasting the question and answer section of the live broadcast ECS did of the OpenCon satellite event held at the 232nd ECS Meeting in October of 2017.
ECS OpenCon was a community event aimed at creating a culture of change in how research is designed, shared, discussed, and disseminated, with the ultimate goal of making scientific progress faster.
ECS was the first scholarly society to host an OpenCon satellite event
The participants for this Q&A, in the order you’ll hear them speak, are:
Ashley Farley, open access program associate, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation,
Nick Shockey, director of programs and engagement, SPARC,
Dina Paltoo, director, Division of Scientific Data Sharing Policy, Office of Science Policy,
National Institutes of Health,
Dan Schwartz, director, Clean Energy Institute, University of Washington,
Meredith Morovati, executive director, Dryad Digital Repository,
Brian Nosek, co-founder, Center for Open Science
Links:
ECS OpenCon on YouTube
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA…4rGFUbcNFvmPqjlmM
SPARC – organizers of OpenCon
sparcopen.org/
OpenCon 2017
www.opencon2017.org/
Our guest today, James Fenton, is the Director of the Florida Solar Energy Center at the University of Central Florida – the nation’s largest and most active state-supported renewable energy and energy efficiency institute.
Fenton is also the current secretary of the ECS Board of Directors.
Our guest today is Alan Alda. You might know him from the 1970s and 80s because of the TV show MASH or in the last few years from appearing on The Blacklist, The Big C, or as Uncle Pete on the show Horace and Pete.
He hosted the PBS show Scientific American Frontiers for 13 years.
He is a film and TV director, screenwriter, and author. As well as a six-time Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award winner.
He is also the founder of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University. The goal of which is to help scientists learn to communicate more effectively with the public.
His latest book is: If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?: My Adventures in the Art and Science of Relating and Communicating.
Alan Alda talked to Rob Gerth, ECS’s director of marketing and communications.
In the final installment of the series, Hackerman talks about becoming the president of ECS, the birth of the Gordon Conferences, and how the Society has contributed or reacted to significant scientific events in elcetrochemistry related fields.
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In the tenth installment of this series, Hackerman talks about the rise in the popularity of electrochemistry in the 1930s, this history of ECS and his involvement, and the shift in chemistry due to the Soviet's Sputnik.
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