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Science Cafe
Every month, an Arkansas scientist or expert provides insight on a science topic as a guest on the KUAR's "Science Café Little Rock" live call-in show hosted by Dorothy Graves, Ph.D., of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.
The program airs 6:05-6:30 p.m. on the 4th Tuesday of every month, just prior to the Science Café community event that takes place at 7 p.m. in Little Rock at Vieux Carre/The Afterthought. The radio program serves as a preview of the discussion to take place that night.
Latest Episode (click to listen):
January 2012: Technology
Guest: Dietrich Duke, Interactive Media Sales, Aristotle Interactive, Little Rock, AR
Topic for Next Program (on February 28, 2012):
The Science of Sleep
Science Café Website: http://www.sciencecafelr.com
About The Host
Dorothy Graves, Ph.D., is an Assistant Research Professor in the Division of Hematology/Oncology at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute.
After obtaining her Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology from UAMS in 2000, Dorothy became the first Arkansan to receive a Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellowship from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), which placed her as a science reporter for National Public Radio affiliate WOSU-AM in Columbus, OH. Dorothy returned to Little Rock to freelance science reports for KUAR FM 89.1 and eventually work as a general assignment reporter, Morning Edition news anchor and legislative correspondent for the station.
She returned to UAMS in 2006, and in 2007 became the moderator for a new community forum called Science Café Little Rock, now held at Vieux Carre/The Afterthought in the Hillcrest area of Little Rock. The companion live call-in radio program by the same name was started in 2009 on KUAR FM 89.1 with Dorothy as the host.
