award-winning npr science correspondent to speak at ut

     KNOXVILLE -- Richard Harris, award-winning science correspondent for National Public Radio, will give the University of Tennessee, Knoxville's annual Alfred and Julia Hill Lecture at 8 p.m. March 16, in the Shiloh Room of the University Center.
     Harris will speak on “Covering Climate Change in a Changing Media Climate.”  The program is free and open to the public.
     For the past 24 years, Harris has visited every continent, reporting from Timbuktu, the South Pole, the Amazon rain forest, Siberia and Haiti. His stories -- about science, technology and medicine -- have won many awards, including two from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Council of Scientific Society Presidents, the American Medical Writers Association, and the National Association of Science Writers.
     The Hill Lecture series brings distinguished science journalists to campus to share their thoughts on science, society, and the mass media.
     The University Center, site of Richard Harris’ Hill Lecture, is at the corner of Cumberland Avenue and Phillip Fulmer Way.  Paid parking is available in the garage on Phillip Fulmer Way next to the University Center.  Refreshments will be served before and after the lecture.