Official account for @ucdavisbiology #COVID19 Town Halls, where subject area experts discuss pandemic-related issues w/ @UCDavis students. Run by @Scicommdaniel
May 29, 2020 • 54 tweets • 23 min read
📣 Starting this afternoon @ 3:30 pm PST, our last #CovidTownHall of the quarter with Dr. @elizabeth_joh, professor @UCDavisLaw, who will be discussing with @ucdavis students how policing, tech & surveillance issues intersect with efforts to track & intervene in the #pandemic.
Dr. Joh is a Martin Luther King Jr. Professor @UCDavisLaw, teaching in criminal law and procedure, constitutional law, and policing. Her research focuses on regulation of the police with emphases on undercover operations, DNA evidence collection & new surveillance technologies.
May 22, 2020 • 51 tweets • 20 min read
📣 Starting this afternoon at 3:30 pm PST! Science journalist and @NPR science correspondent Richard Harris (@rrichardh) will be joining the latest #CovidTownHall in our series to discuss science reporting during a pandemic with @ucdavis students. You don't want to miss this!
Richard Harris has covered science, medicine and the environment for @NPR since 1986. His award-winning work includes reports in 2010 that revealed the US Government was vastly underestimating the amount of oil spilling from the Macondo blowout in the Gulf of Mexico. #journalism
May 15, 2020 • 43 tweets • 18 min read
Starting soon at 3:30PT! American Economist Dr. Daniel A. Sumner will be speaking with @ucdavis students about food supply-chain issues related to the coronavirus pandemic at @ucdavisbiology's @CovidTownHall.
Live streaming: facebook.com/ucdavisbiology/ #CovidTownHall#Covid19 1/
Dr. Sumner is the Frank H. Buck, Jr., Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Davis and the Director of the University of California, Agricultural Issues Center. 2/