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From Monday 2 to Friday 6 December 1996, RMIT is celebrating its 
R&D excellence with a program of events and lectures entitled:

Innovation @ work (http://www.rmit.edu.au/innovation.10.html)

Mr Ian Anderson, Australasian Editor of New Scientist will present a 
lecture entitled: 'Communication in Science'.

Speaker:  Mr Ian Anderson
Date:  Wednesday 4 December 1996
Time:  8.00 - 9.00 am breakfast - bookings essential
Telephone:  9660 2717

Abstract:

"So you want to be an editor: science from cover to cover".  
Presentation will include a discussion of the changes in cover design 
of New Scientist, and an audience quiz game in which 12 covers of 
the magazine will be displayed randomly and the audience asked to 
guess their relative success or failure.

Ian will also give a brief account of New Scientist in Australia and 
discuss how well Australia is doing in science communication.

Mr Ian Anderson

Ian Anderson is the Australasian Editor of New Scientist.  He 
worked in America as the West Coast correspondent for New 
Scientist for eight years before returning to Australia in 1990 to 
establish the Australasian edition of New Scientist.  In 1993, he was 
overall winner of the Michael Daley Award for science journalism.  
Ian talks about science every fortnight on the Tony Delroy Show on 
ABC radio and on 2CN in Canberra.  In 1995-6 he was president of 
the Australian Science Communicators.