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The Kavli Center for Ethics, Science, and the Public, and the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, hosted this lecture sponsored by the AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards program. Amy Maxmen’s talk is part of the AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards program's annual fall lecture series. The awards program has recognized excellence in science reporting since 1945, including a 2020 Gold Award to Maxmen in the Magazine category for her report in Nature on “Behind the Front Lines of...

The Kavli Center for Ethics, Science, and the Public hosts Pulitzer Prize-winning WSJ reporter and author, Amy Dockser Marcus. Amy will talk about her new book, "We the Scientists," which chronicles the story of a group of activist parents and scientists who join forces to develop a drug to treat a rare disease.

For more than half a century, medical advances have been driven by investigators launching experiments inside labs. Science is often conducted in isolation and geared toward the long view. This is the story of a group of people who tried to force the lab doors...