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Public Speaking Seminar: "Preparing a TED Talk"

Engage audiences immediately, present data effectively

Location

The Commons : 329

Date & Time

February 6, 2016, 10:00 am12:00 pm

Description

Join us for a special seminar on public speaking: 

"Preparing a TED-styled Talk"
Guest Speaker: Scott Morgan 
Saturday February 6th, 2016
10 AM - 12 PM
Commons 329

The topics covered will include the interests of participants from all disciplines, and all of UMBC's colleges: Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences (CAHSS); Natural and Mathematical Sciences (CNMS); and Engineering & IT (COEIT). Please RSVP to the event by logging in through your UMBC account, and clicking the green "I can attend" button that will appear below.

This seminar will provide some preparation for UMBC's Graduate Research 
Conference (GRC). All graduate students are strongly encouraged to 
participate in the conference. 

Faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and staff are welcome to attend. Refreshments will be served.

Scott Morgan and others from "The Morgan Group" have been training UMBC's graduate students for many years. 

Scott Morgan, President of The Morgan Group of Washington, DC, provides media training and public speaking tips to a variety of organizations, and universities. Morgan is a Senior Associate of the 
Abshire Inamori Leadership Academy, at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in DC.

Scott  Morgan  has been teaching communication skills for 20 years. His clients include the National Institutes of Health, the Mayo Clinic, Merck, NASA, EPA, City of Hope Cancer Center, and several universities: Harvard Medical School, UNC Chapel Hill, Cornell, Maryland, Ohio State, Minnesota, Duke, Nebraska and NC State University, and Texas A&M. He has 25 years of broadcast experience and teaches media and communication strategy to many think tanks in the Washington DC area. Specifically, as a Senior Associate with the Abshire Inamori Leadership Academy of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (http://csis.org/expert/scott-morgan). Scott graduated with honors from the University of California, Davis and authored the book Speaking about Science published by Cambridge University Press.

For more about Scott Morgan, click here