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Colloquium Series
The Center offers a colloquium series that highlights expertise on research trends in risk communication. Various scholars visit the campus of the University of Maryland and offer their unique insights during lectures and informal talks with students and faculty members.
Upcoming Colloquium Speakers
The Effects of Emotion on Risk Perception & Risk Taking
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Dr. Jennifer Lerner
Full Professor
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University
Friday, April 4, 2008
12 pm
0200 Skinner Building
University of Maryland, College Park
Dr. Lerner is an experimental social psychologist who studies emotion, decision-making, and risk. Please visit her website for more details about her work: http://content.ksg.harvard.edu/lernerlab/people.php?item=11. Further details of her presentation will be listed soon. |
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Past Colloquium Speakers
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Adolescent Risk Research: Notes from the Field
Dr. Donna Howard
Associate Professor
Department of Public and Community Health
School of Public Health, UMD
Friday, February 29, 2008
12 pm
0200 Skinner Building
University of Maryland, College Park
Dr. Howard highlighted communication challenges which arise when conducting public health research on sensitive issues among underage populations. Using case studies on adolescent social drinking and violence exposure, some of the difficulties inherent in confidential vs. anonymous research as well as the challenges in making and acting on risk assessments were addressed.
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| Spring 2007 |
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Phillip K. Tompkins, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, Department of Communication
and Comparative Literature, University of Colorado, Boulder
"Communication & Risk
in Aerospace"
April 13, 2007
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| Fall 2006 |
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Vish Viswanath, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Harvard School of Public Health,
Dana Farber Cancer Institute
"Communication Inequality & Public Communication of Risk:
Evidence & Speculation from Communication Studies"
November
30, 2006 |
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| Spring 2005 |
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Caron Chess, Ph.D.
Rutgers University, Professor of Human Ecology
"Communicating from the Organizational Twilight Zone: The Case of Anthrax, New Jersey, 2001"
Environmental Risk |
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| Spring 2004 |
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Sharon Dunwoody, Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Professor of Journalism & Mass Communication
Discussed her current research on the Internet and the public's understanding of science
Risk Communication |
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