Cafe Scientifique Silicon Valley Has New Home at SRI International.Forum Brings Scientists and Public Together to Discuss Issues in "Plain English Plain English (sometimes known, more broadly, as plain language) is a communication style that focuses on considering the audience's needs when writing. It recommends avoiding unnecessary words and avoiding jargon, technical terms, and long and ambiguous sentences. " MENLO PARK Menlo Park. 1 Residential city (1990 pop. 28,040), San Mateo co., W Calif.; inc. 1874. Electronic equipment and aerospace products are manufactured in the city. Menlo College and a Stanford Univ. research institute are there. 2 Uninc. , Calif. -- SRI International (company) SRI International - One of the world's largest contract research firms. Founded in 1946 in conjuction with Stanford University as the Stanford Research Institute, they later became fully independent and were incorporated as a non-profit organisation under U.S. , an independent, nonprofit research and development organization, today announced that it is the new host for Cafe Scientifique Silicon Valley. Cafe Scientifique is a grassroots organization that holds informal monthly gatherings where community members can interact with leading scientists on current topics in science and technology. Past topics have included human genetics Human genetics A discipline concerned with genetically determined resemblances and differences among human beings. Technological advances in the visualization of human chromosomes have shown that abnormalities of chromosome number or structure are surprisingly , the San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden 1906 earthquake, and nanotechnology. Events are free and open to the public. Cafe Scientifique Silicon Valley's first event at SRI's International Building, located at 333 Ravenswood Avenue in Menlo Park, California Menlo Park is a city in San Mateo County, California in the United States of America. It is located at latitude 37°29' North, longitude 122°9' East. Menlo Park had 30,785 inhabitants as of the 2000 U.S. Census. , will be on Tuesday, January 9 from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. The featured speaker will be Terry Root, Ph.D., Senior Fellow in the Woods Institute for the Environment and Professor in the Biological Sciences Department at Stanford University Stanford University, at Stanford, Calif.; coeducational; chartered 1885, opened 1891 as Leland Stanford Junior Univ. (still the legal name). The original campus was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. David Starr Jordan was its first president. . Her work suggests that protecting species on earth is no longer just a habitat protection issue, but also one of limiting climate change. Cafe Scientifique Silicon Valley at SRI, formerly called Cafe Scientifique Palo Alto, is the first organization of its kind on the West Coast. It is part of a growing international trend of "science cafes" where scientists, technologists, and other researchers interact with community members to promote knowledge in casual settings. "SRI is proud to work with Cafe Scientifique Silicon Valley to promote public engagement on current topics in science and technology," said Walter Moos, vice president of SRI's Biosciences Division. "As science impacts so many aspects of our lives, it is wonderful to have a venue where researchers can engage in dialogue with Silicon Valley residents."Dr. Moos will serve on Cafe Scientifique Silicon Valley's advisory board. Cafe Scientifique Silicon Valley is sponsored by Roxro Pharma, Inc., of Menlo Park. The organization's co-founders are Dr. Roger Whiting, president and chief scientific officer of Roxro and Nancy Peterson, a Palo Alto-based communications consultant. Details regarding future speakers, and other information about Cafe Scientifique Silicon Valley, are available at www.cafescisv.org. About SRI International Silicon Valley-based SRI International (www.sri.com) is one of the world's leading independent research and technology development organizations. Founded as Stanford Research Institute Stanford Research Institute - Former name of SRI International. in 1946, SRI has been meeting the strategic needs of clients for 60 years. The nonprofit research institute performs client-sponsored research and development for government agencies, commercial businesses and private foundations. In addition to conducting contract R&D, SRI licenses its technologies, forms strategic partnerships and creates spin-off companies. |
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