NPR Science Correspondent Joe Palca will speak at the KRCU Membership Breakfast on April 10, 2013. The breakfast is the kick-off event for our week long Spring 2013 Pledge Drive. To reserve your seat, call the station at 651-5070 or (888) 651-5070.
Since joining NPR in 1992, Palca has covered a range of science topics – everything from biomedical research to astronomy.
Palca has won numerous awards, including the National Academies Communications Award, the Science-in-Society Award of the National Association of Science Writers, the American Chemical Society James T. Grady-James H. Stack Award for Interpreting Chemistry for the Public, the American Association for the Advancement of Science Journalism Prize and the Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Writing.
Palca is the co-author of Annoying: The Science of What Bugs Us (Wiley, 2011). He comes to journalism from a science background, having received a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of California at Santa Cruz where he worked on human sleep physiology.
KRCU staff and volunteers will be hitting the airwaves after the KRCU Membership Breakfast on April 10. Familiar voices such as Dan Woods, Barb Herbert and Jason Brown will fill your home, car and your heart as we rally support from our listeners to meet our goal of $41,000 by the end of the drive.
The scheduled end of the on-air pledge drive is 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, April 17, but the drive will end early if we hit our goal! We hope members will call in to pledge their support or just let us know how we are doing as their station.