URMA CONFERENCE 2017

Hosted by Brown University

URMA Conference 2017

2017 URMA Conference host institution was Brown University. From Virtual Reality to Biomedical Informatics URMA connects colleagues from universities and institutions across the country and abroad. Our conference features practitioners in realms such as journalism, design, photography, multimedia and other areas relevant to telling the stories of research. If you communicate about your institution’s research, URMA’s annual conference is for you.

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2017 URMA Host Institution

URMA 2017 was hosted by Brown University from Xxxxx through Xxxxxx. Featuring everything from Virtual Reality to the Knight Science Journalism program at MIT.

2017 URMA Host Institution

URMA 2017 was hosted by Brown University from Xxxxx through Xxxxxx. Featuring everything from Virtual Reality to the Knight Science Journalism program at MIT.

CONFERENCE SPEAKERS

Ken Miller, Brown University biologist and leading science advocate
Neil Sarkar, director of the Brown Center for Biomedical Informatics
Lucia Monge, operations and engagement coordinator of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Nature Lab
Rafael Attias, senior critic
Tom Sgouros, manager of the Brown University Virtual Reality Lab
David Corcoran, associate director of the Knight Science Journalism program at MIT and former New York Times’ Science Times editor
Meera Subramanian, award-winning journalist and Knight Science fellow at MIT
Barnaby Evans, creator of WaterFire sculpture in downtown Providence
Paul Kalanithi, author of When Breath Becomes Air

MEMBER PRESENTATIONS

URMA Survey: The State of Our Art
- Catherine Zandonella, Princeton University
- Michelle Johnson, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Research Communication in the Time of Trump and Political Activism
- Noel Rubinton, Brown University
Research Communications Issues
- John Toon, Georgia Tech
- Joe Kays, University of Florida

Past Conferences

To find out what types of things we cover at our conferences, check out our previous conference information by clicking on a conference graphic. Session videos and slides are available on our Member Resources page.