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The festival was founded and established by Brian Greene, professor of mathematics and physics at Columbia University and author of several science books (including The Elegant Universe, and The Hidden Reality); and Tracy Day, a four-time National News Emmy Award-winning journalist, who has produced live and documentary programs for the nation's most prominent television news departments.
Alan Alda, Tracy Day and Brian Greene at the press conference announcing the 2008 festival. The World Science Festival was founded by Brian Greene, a Columbia University physics professor and author of several popular-science books (such as The Elegant Universe), and his wife, Emmy Award-winning television journalist Tracy Day.
Brian Randolph Greene [1] (born February 9, 1963) is an American physicist known for his research on string theory.He is a professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University, director of its center for theoretical physics, and the chairman of the World Science Festival, which he co-founded in 2008.
A science festival is a festival that showcases science and technology with a similar atmosphere to an arts or music festival, and that primarily targets the general public. These public engagement events can be varied, including lectures , exhibitions , workshops , live demonstrations of experiments , guided tours , and panel discussions .
A science experiment being demonstrated to the public during the festival [1]. Edinburgh Science, founded in 1989, is an educational charity.It organises a two-week Edinburgh's annual Science Festival, [2] the world's first public celebration of science and technology, and still one of Europe's largest.
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Gillian Small is currently the president of World Science U, the higher education arm of World Science Festival.. Previously, she was the University Provost & Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at Fairleigh Dickinson University from 2016 through 2022.
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