Explaining Researchis the ultimate guide for scientists, engineers, and other professionals seeking to share their life's work effectively with important lay and scientific audiences. It offers a multitude of practical communication tools and techniques for writing, giving talks, creating visuals, using social media, and publicizing research advances. Career success depends on more than conducting incisive experiments and publishing papers in top journals. Researchers must also know how to explain their work to key audiences, such as colleagues, potential collaborators, officers in funding agencies and from foundations, donors, institutional leaders, corporate partners, students, legislators, journalists, and the general public. Explaining Research is the most comprehensive guide for science and engineering communication. In this new edition, leading research communicator Dennis Meredith provides readers with the practical tools and techniques scientists and engineers need to reach their audiences effectively. The updated and expanded chapters include a wealth of insights from leading science journalists and research communicators.
It's the weirdest bioterrorism attack ever! A frightening epidemic of unknown viruses is turning people red, yellow, blue, chartreuse, emerald, pumpkin, fuschia. . . . An eccentric, brilliant biologist vanishes from a local biotech company. Is he the culprit? An unlikely team pursues the mystery: disgraced FBI agent Bobby Loudon and obsessive CDC disease detective Kathleen Shinohara. They race to find the bioterrorist, but they are thwarted by a shadowy, deadly network called the faction. Who is this group and what is their goal? Will Loudon's and Shinohara's worst fear be realized¿that the colorful infections are prelude to an unstoppable virus that the bioterrorist will unleash to devastate the world? The Rainbow Virus is a breakneck science fiction adventure based on the looming potential of new biowarfare technology to pose a global terrorist threat. It's also a witty commentary on the peculiar human tendency to judge people by their skin color. Author and veteran science writer Dennis Meredith has crafted this riveting tale drawing on his decades of experience working at leading research universities such as Caltech, MIT, Cornell and Duke. For more information on Dennis Meredith's novels, go to www.DennisMeredith.com.
Can they take his heart if he has a soul? Solomon is an extraordinary chimpanzee, taught by primatologist Abigail Philips to understand and use language. But her research center is under a financial death sentence from her university. Desperate to save Solomon from what, for him, would be a dismal life in a retirement facility, Philips agrees to give legal control of Solomon to billionaire Walter Drake. He has agreed to house Solomon in comfort and enable her pioneering communication research to continue. But the ailing billionaire has really bought himself a heart! He betrays Philips, planning to "harvest" Solomon's heart to biologically engineer it to replace his own failing heart. The procedure will not only doom Solomon. Its success will also sentence a thousand chimpanzees in sanctuaries to death on the operating table, and lead to industrial breeding of chimpanzees for organ harvesting. Solomon's only hope is flamboyant LA trial lawyer R. William "Bobby" Colter, defender of whoever pays his considerable fee. Hired by eccentric dowager Sarah Huntington, he sets out to win the most difficult case of his career: obtaining legal protection for Solomon. Can Colter succeed against all legal precedent and free Solomon, or will the chimpanzee die at the hands of surgeons, a harbinger for the end of a thousand of his brethren? Author Dennis Meredith has crafted a gripping, thought-provoking story that resonates with emotion. It also sheds dramatic light on the profound ethical issues of legal rights for our closest living primate relatives.
They're real: fairies, pixies, werewolves, ogres! They're aliens!Drunken journalist Jack March can't believe his bleary eyes when he stumbles onto a winged fairy! She vaults away into the night sky, and his unbelievable-and unbelieved-encounter leads to a stunning revelation that all the creatures of myth and legend are real!Fairies, pixies, trolls, werewolves, ogres, vampires, angels, elves, bigfoot-all are alien exiles to the planet. For their crimes, these "mythicals" are serving out banishment disguised in flesh-suits enabling them to live among the planet's natives.Jack reveals their secret to the world, along with a horrendous discovery: they have decided that the native "terminal species" must be eradicated before it ruins its home planet's ecology.In this riveting scifi/fairy tale, Jack joins with sympathetic fairies, pixies, and ogres to attempt to save the planet from the mythicals, as well as the mysterious alien cabal known as the Pilgrims.
You feel ecstatic! Until you kill yourself. The Happy Chip is the latest nanoengineering wonder from the high-flying tech company, NeoHappy, Inc. Hundreds of millions of people have had the revolutionary nanochip injected into their bodies, to monitor their hormonal happiness and guide them to life choices, from foods to sex partners. Given the nanochip's stunning success, struggling science writer Brad Davis is thrilled when he is hired to co-author the biography of its inventor, billionaire tech genius Marty Fallon. That is, until Davis learns that rogue company scientists are secretly testing horrifying new control chips with "side effects"-suicidal depression, uncontrollable lust, murderous rage, remote-controlled death, and ultimately, global subjugation. His discovery threatens not only his life, but that of his wife Annie and their children. Only with the help of Russian master hacker Gregor Kalinsky and his gang can they hope to survive the perilous adventure that takes them from Boston to Beijing. An edge-of your-seat thriller, The Happy Chip spins a cautionary tale of unchecked nanotechnology spawning insidious devices that could enslave us. It dramatically portrays how we must control our "nanofuture" before it's too late.
Public Information Officers (PIOs) can be invaluable allies in your communication efforts. They can offer expert advice, as well as access to communications machinery for reaching the media and other important audiences. This guide--a supplement to Explaining Research (Oxford University Press, 2010--will help you develop the most beneficial relationships with those PIOs, whether they are in your institution, at a journal, in a scientific society, or in your funding agency. Working with Public Information Officers shows how your PIO can serve as - an editorial and media relations expert who can write and distribute news releases, pitch media on story ideas, develop media strategy, and manage communication crises - an institutional ambassador who conveys to administrators the significance of your research and your positions on important issues - an educator who teaches you how to develop clear research explanations and work with media - a hard questioner who confronts you with those tough questions that you must answer if you are to preserve your reputation and advance your work. For further information, visit www.WorkingwithPIOs.com Reviews Scientists who want to communicate their work are plentiful; those who want to do it well or do it better are more rare. The former need Working with Public Information Officers; the latter will find it a joy. This is the take-along booklet with powerful take-it-to-heart messages, full of wit and wisdom. --Joann Rodgers, Senior Advisor for Science, Executive & Crisis Communications, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine This handy guide is filled with examples from universities, national laboratories, corporate facilities and other research settings. Some of the country's best public information officers explain how your research can get the attention it deserves, in ways that won't waste your time or make you uncomfortable. --David Jarmul, Associate Vice President, News & Communications, Duke University Imagine squeezing four decades-worth of know-how and experience about communicating science from the minds of Dennis Meredith and dozens of his colleagues. That would be the only thing better than this little book. Culling from the mountains of expertise he gathered in writing Explaining Research, Dennis has provided both a roadmap for newbies in the field and a refresher course for us old-timers. Every science communications operation should have several copies close at hand. --Earle Holland, Assistant Vice President for Research Communications, Ohio State University It's hard to think of a better resource for our craft--or a more experienced and savvy practitioner than author Dennis Meredith. This guide to our business is essential reading for anyone treading the academic science writing and media relations landscape. If you are in the business of wrangling scientists, working with science journalists, and putting discovery into societal context, this work belongs on your desk and in the hands of every scientist willing to take the time to absorb its many valuable lessons. --Terry Devitt, Director of Research Communications, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The most beautiful cat in history has been stolen!The Cerulean cat, with its mesmerizing iridescent blue fur, is the ultimate genomic engineering triumph of the high-flying company, Animata.It's 2050, and Animata reaps massive profits creating and selling a marvelous menagerie of animals--including exotic crosses like cogs, dats, snurtles, alliphants, hamakeets, and feather boas. Its ultra-rich clients, however, clamor for the really spectacular specimens--dragons, unicorns. . . and now the Cerulean. The stunning cat had promised to bring billions of dollars from a private collector or exhibitor.Swept up in the mystery is nave young Timothy Boatright, a wanna-be writer who's driving a cab in New York. He inadvertently picks up the thief and the nabbed Cerulean. The cops suspect him of complicity in the crime, and to prove his innocence and save the cat, he tracks it down and steals it back. He ends up accused not only of catnapping but murder--fleeing the police, Animata thugs, a greedy drug lord. . . and Big Nasties! Somebody has programmed these 300-pound assassin-animals--with their three-inch fangs, razor claws, night vision, and sonar--not only to kill Tim, but shred him.Amidst this mayhem, Tim realizes that the Cerulean was stolen and marked for death because its genes hold some explosive mystery he must solve to survive. He must also save his friends held for ransom--the middle-aged, cat-loving former spy Callie Lawrence and her headstrong daughter Lulu, with whom Tim has fallen madly in love.The Cerulean's Secret is a fast-paced thriller that projects today's amazing genomic technology into a future of incredible biological manipulation. Its witty neo noir style and vivid prose lure the reader into an adventure that extends the traditional science fiction genre into new literary territory.
A member of the 1976 expedition that probed for evidence of the existence of the Loch Ness monster reviews past sightings and tells of recent discoveries made with the help of special new equipment
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for his 1993 novel;A Lesson Before Dying, recipient of the National Humanities Medal, and author of the classic;The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Ernest J.
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