I run a quasi-monthly science café event at Busboys and Poets, a well-known restaurant and cultural hub in Washington, DC. 5/2011-present : Founder, DC Science Café.During my residency, I gave several public talks and organized a new and ongoing public engagement series, Café KITP, which now runs every other month in downtown Santa Barbara. For several months, I joined a community of big-thinking scientists who ponder some of the most basic questions about the origin and nature of the universe, from its tiniest to largest scales. 1/2014-4/2014: Journalist in Residence, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara.I also have been doing contract work for the National Nanotechnology Coordinating Office (NNCO). During this time frame, I also was working on freelance articles aor Nature magazine, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Bulletin and the Washington Post. I am working on this project as a subcontractor with Praxis, Inc., based in Alexandria, VA. With a possible title of “America’s Secret NASA,” the book will tell the little-known but hugely consequential role of non-civilian space program run by the Navy since the 1950s. I have been hired to write a book-length chronicle of NRL’s role in the American space program. 11/2011 – 4/2015: Contract book author/consultant, Naval Center of Space Technology, which is part of the Naval Research Laboratory.Among my many responsibilities is to produce the podcast series, Voices from DARPA. 4/2015 – 10/2018: I worked in the Public Affairs group of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) where I help tell the story of the technologically visionary agency.11/2018 – 9/2020: In a grant-funded project, I create the online publication titled The Moonshot Catalog and served as the one-man masthead through to the completion of the project.2/2020 – 1/2022: I returned to Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) fora second tour of duty as a “documentarian” with a primary role of producing the podcast, Voices from DARPA, and otherwise telling the story of this storied technology development agency.1/2022 – present: I have assumed the role of Science Communications Manager at Columbia University’s Mortimer B.BA, Chemistry, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 1983.MA, History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 1986.Thomas Willis, Cerebri Anatome, 1664 Education
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