Communicating About Science to the Public: Observations on a Constantly Transforming Profession

Diana Kenney will share her personal path to a career in science communications and address some of the major scientific, professional, and cultural impacts on the field in the past 25 years.

Diana Kenney is a science writer/editor at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, MA, where she also directs the MBL’s Logan Science Journalism fellowship program. She began her career in science communications at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and subsequently worked as an editor and journalist for numerous publications, including, most recently, The Cape Cod Times. Diana holds a M.A. in the History of Science and Technology from the University of Minnesota, where she focused her study on the history of genetic engineering. She has special interests in communicating about genome engineering and about climate change.

This program is free but please register at cotuitlibrary.org/events or contact the Library.