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Science Friday Event

Ira Flatow, host of the very popular Science Friday public radio program from PRI will be presenting a program on Catalysts of Creativity, Tuesday evening, April 19, 2016, at the Pensacola Museum of Commerce. WUWF is hosting the presentation as part of its 35th Anniversary celebrations throughout 2016.

THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT. 

Due to overwhelming response to Ira Flatow's planned visit, the venue is full, however, WUWF will live webcast the presentation.  Please visit our website on April 19th for the live link.

WUWF members and listeners will be familiar with the Science Friday broadcast popularly known as SciFri. The two hour weekly program, with call-ins, is broadcast from 1-3 pm each Friday on 88.1 FM.

Flatow has had a 35 year long career as a science writer/reporter for both radio and television making concepts and research in science, technology, health, space and the environment accessible to the lay person, as well as, to children. For six years Flatow was both host and writer for the Emmy-award-winning Newton's Apple on PBS. He was science reporter for CBS This Morning. And he wrote, produced and hosted Transistorized!, an hour-long PBS documentary. He was also host of the four-part PBS series Big Ideas. And for the last 25 years Flatow has hosted Science Friday heard by 2 million public radio listeners weekly on nearly 400 stations, online, and via podcasts. In addition, he is author of numerous articles and books and has made guest appearances, playing himself, on the CBS hit series, The Big Bang Theory.  

Flatow is president of the Science Friday Initiative, a 501c3 non-profit he founded to use radio, TV and the internet to make science “user friendly.” Flatow says that his passion for science combined with his tendency to be a “bit of a ham,” helps him deliver on his personal effort “to make science and technology a topic for discussion around the dinner table.”

Catalysts of Creativity will begin at 7pm at the Museum of Commerce, on the corner of Zaragoza and Tarragona in historic Pensacola, on Tuesday evening, April 19, 2016. 

Please also consider bringing a donation of non-perishables for Manna Food Pantries. Collection barrels will be available at the door.  

Special thanks to our event sponsor: