Dr. Moira Gunn moderates the 1st annual Science Laureates Town Hall The Science Laureates Program at Purdue brings together professional science journalists from around the world to develop and discuss the role and responsibilities, issues and concerns of communicating science. It recognizes that science journalists play a linchpin role connecting scientists with the general public, the business community, governments, non-governmental organizations, public policy forums, grassroots organizations, and other social infrastructure vehicles – both existing and emergent. Today we’re airing the Science Laureates Town Hall meeting, one part of the Science Laureates 2006 event. The journalists are represented by:

• Clive Cookson, Science Editor, Financial Times of London

• David Ewing Duncan, widely-acclaimed science journalist and chief correspondent for BioTech Nation

• Simon Grose, the Science & Technology Editor for The Canberra Times

• Joan Leach, the Co-Editor of the Oxford Companion to Science Studies

• Apoorva Mandilli, Senior News Editor at Nature Medicine

• Nuala Moran, Senior Editor of Science | Business

• Jason Pontin, the Publisher & Editor-in-Chief of Technology Review, MIT’s Magazine of Innovation

• Jeff Young, Senior Editor with Chronicle of Higher Education

Representing the Purdue Faculty in the areas of science and science communication are:

• Professor Patricia Davies, Mechanical Engineering

• Professor Joe Francisco, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences and Chemistry

• Professor Herb Moskowitz, Krannert Graduate School of Management

• Professor Bill Muir, College of Agriculture

• Dean Jim Mullins, Dean of Libraries

• Professor Howard Sypher, Chair of the Communications Department