This Week in Science
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This Week in Science is a science radio talk show broadcasting from KDVS
90.3FM on the UC Davis campus. Each week, TWIS founder/host Kirsten Sanford
and co-host Justin Jackson review current research in technology. Listened to in 60 countries worldwide, TWIS reaches an international audience and regularly fields science questions on the air from listeners around the world.
The show is available live on FM radio in Northern California and via live internet broadcasts from the KDVS website. As of 2003, it was the most popular show on the station, which was the most popular college radio station west of the Mississippi river. Archived versions of the show as well as a podcast are available from the show's website.
Kirsten was awarded the 2005 American Association for the Advancement of Science
(AAAS) Mass Media Fellowship Award in recognition for her work with This Week in Science. Through this fellowship she worked as a television news producer at WNBC
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working with noted health and science reporter Dr. Max Gomez
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Justin Jackson has been the show's co-host since 2005.
KDVS
KDVS is an American student and community radio station based in Davis, California. Featuring a freeform programming format, the station is owned by Regents of the University of California...
90.3FM on the UC Davis campus. Each week, TWIS founder/host Kirsten Sanford
Kirsten Sanford
Kirsten "Kiki" Sanford was previously an American research scientist in neurophysiology at the University of California, Davis and is a specialist in learning and memory. She holds a B.S. in Conservation Biology and a Ph.D. in Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Physiology from U.C. Davis....
and co-host Justin Jackson review current research in technology. Listened to in 60 countries worldwide, TWIS reaches an international audience and regularly fields science questions on the air from listeners around the world.
The show is available live on FM radio in Northern California and via live internet broadcasts from the KDVS website. As of 2003, it was the most popular show on the station, which was the most popular college radio station west of the Mississippi river. Archived versions of the show as well as a podcast are available from the show's website.
Hosts
Dr. Kirsten Sanford (Founder/Host) is a research scientist in Neurophysiology at the University of California, Davis and is a specialist in learning and memory. She holds a B.S. in Conservation Biology and a Ph.D in Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Physiology from UC Davis and is a frequent lecturer on the Davis campus.Kirsten was awarded the 2005 American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Association for the Advancement of Science
The American Association for the Advancement of Science is an international non-profit organization with the stated goals of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific responsibility, and supporting scientific education and science outreach for the...
(AAAS) Mass Media Fellowship Award in recognition for her work with This Week in Science. Through this fellowship she worked as a television news producer at WNBC
WNBC
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New York City
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working with noted health and science reporter Dr. Max Gomez
Max Gomez
Dr. Max Gomez, Ph. D. is a native of Havana, Cuba and was the medical correspondent/senior health editor for NBC flagship television station WNBC in New York City. He delivered segments on health, science and medicine on the 5pm news. Before that he was the health and science editor for KYW-TV in...
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Justin Jackson has been the show's co-host since 2005.
Guests
This Week in Science regularly interviews notable scientists, technologists, and luminaries. Past interviewees include:- Brian GreeneBrian GreeneBrian Greene is an American theoretical physicist and string theorist. He has been a professor at Columbia University since 1996. Greene has worked on mirror symmetry, relating two different Calabi-Yau manifolds...
, Columbia University physicist and author of The Elegant UniverseThe Elegant UniverseThe Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory is a book by Brian Greene published in 1999, which introduces string and superstring theory, and provides a comprehensive though non-technical assessment of the theory and some of its shortcomings... - William GurstelleWilliam GurstelleWilliam Gurstelle is an American nonfiction author, magazine writer, and inventor. He is a feature columnist for Make Magazine and the Pyrotechnics and Ballistics Editor at Popular Mechanics Magazine....
, mechanical engineer and author of Notes from the Technology Underground - Jack Farmer, NASANASAThe National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...
astrobiologist - Lisa RandallLisa RandallLisa Randall is an American theoretical physicist and a leading expert on particle physics and cosmology. She works on several of the competing models of string theory in the quest to explain the fabric of the universe. Her most well known contribution to the field is the Randall-Sundrum model,...
, Harvard theoretical physicist - William GibsonWilliam Gibson (novelist)William Ford Gibson is an American-Canadian speculative fiction novelist who has been called the "noir prophet" of the cyberpunk subgenre. Gibson coined the term "cyberspace" in his short story "Burning Chrome" and later popularized the concept in his debut novel, Neuromancer...
, popular science fiction author and futurist - Kim Stanley RobinsonKim Stanley RobinsonKim Stanley Robinson is an American science fiction writer known for his award-winning Mars trilogy. His work delves into ecological and sociological themes regularly, and many of his novels appear to be the direct result of his own scientific fascinations, such as the fifteen years of research...
, author of the Mars TrilogyMars trilogyThe Mars trilogy is a series of award-winning science fiction novels by Kim Stanley Robinson that chronicles the settlement and terraforming of the planet Mars through the intensely personal and detailed viewpoints of a wide variety of characters spanning almost two centuries...