{"id":25867,"date":"2023-10-05T15:05:26","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T19:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/?p=25867"},"modified":"2023-10-05T15:05:26","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T19:05:26","slug":"us-them-podcast-host-invites-local-community-to-discuss-trust-in-science-during-live-taping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/2023\/10\/us-them-podcast-host-invites-local-community-to-discuss-trust-in-science-during-live-taping\/","title":{"rendered":"Us & Them podcast host invites local community to discuss trust in science during live taping"},"content":{"rendered":"
HUNTINGTON, W.Va<\/strong>. – Award-winning podcaster Trey Kay is bringing his program Us & Them to Marshall University\u2019s campus for a deep discussion about diminished trust in science.<\/p>\n

\u201cDiminished Trust: How Do We Restore Faith in Science?\u201d is scheduled for 4 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 19, in Marshall University\u2019s Drinko Library Atrium. Kay will talk with Dr. Jonathan Zimmerman, University of Pennsylvania\u2019s education historian and author of \u201cWhose America? Culture Wars in the Public Schools\u201d; Dr. Habiba Chichir, Marshall University\u2019s biological anthropologist; and Dr. Adam Franks, M.D., associate residency director for the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine.<\/p>\n

The event is free and open to the public, but registration is recommended because space is limited. Registration is available at https:\/\/bit.ly\/3RMEZun and includes an audience Q&A segment with preference given to students. The live event will be taped for use in a future episode of Us & Them. The event is co-sponsored by Marshall University\u2019s John Deaver Drinko Academy, the West Virginia Humanities Council and West Virginia Public Broadcasting, the broadcasting home of Us & Them.<\/p>\n

Last month, Kay and his team hosted a \u201cDiminished Trust” event at West Virginia University that focused on waning public trust in journalism and the news media.<\/p>\n

\u201cTrust is in short supply in America these days, ” Kay said. “Across the board and across the political spectrum people seem to lack trust in our government\u2026 in many of our
\nagencies and organizations – even in each other. That\u2019s why our Us & Them team is staging these conversations to encourage citizens to consider how long our society can sustain this erosion of trust.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe current diminishment of trust in science is one expression of anti-intellectualism, a longer trend in our culture, and one which waxes and wanes,\u201d says Dr. Monserrat Miller,
\nexecutive director of Marshall\u2019s John Deaver Drinko Academy. \u201cDiminishing trust in science, though, is something that we need to explore and discuss because it poses a
\nrange of dangers from public health to cynicism about the idea of truth itself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Guests for this event include:<\/p>\n

Zimmerman<\/strong> is a Professor of History of Education and the Berkowitz
\nProfessor in Education at the University of Pennsylvania. A former Peace Corps
\nvolunteer and high school teacher, Zimmerman is the author of \u201cWhose America?
\nCulture Wars in the Public Schools\u201d (University of Chicago Press, 2nd ed.) and eight
\nother books. Zimmerman is also a columnist at the Philadelphia Inquirer and a frequent
\ncontributor to the Washington Post, the New York Review of Books, and other popular
\npublications. Zimmerman taught for 20 years at New York University, where he
\nreceived its Distinguished Teaching Award in 2008.<\/p>\n

Chirchir<\/strong> is a biological anthropologist and anatomist. Her research focuses
\non understanding the relationship between changes in skeletal anatomy and behavior
\nby investigating trabecular and cortical bone. She conducts comparative analyses of
\nanatomical features in fossil human ancestors, modern humans, other primates and
\nnon-primate animals including dogs and big cats using CT imaging. Chirchir earned a
\nB.A. from the University of Nairobi, an M.A. from New York University, and a Ph.D. from
\nGeorge Washington University. Chirchir is a research associate at the National Museum
\nof Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.<\/p>\n

Franks<\/strong> is a family medicine physician at Marshall Health, and a professor
\nand vice chair of the department of family and community health at the Marshall University
\nJoan C. Edwards School of Medicine. Franks\u2019 practice provides full-spectrum care for
\nchildren and adults, including obstetric and gynecologic care. His research areas
\ninclude COVID-19 protocols, opioid monitoring protocols, and blood borne pathogen
\nexposure monitoring protocol adherence.<\/p>\n

Kay<\/strong> is the creator and host of Us & Them, a podcast\/radio program distributed by
\nPRX that airs on West Virginia Public Broadcasting. Kay\u2019s passion for reporting on
\nculture wars began in his hometown of Charleston, West Virginia, with “The Great Textbook
\nWar” (2009), a radio documentary. He followed that award winning work with \u201cThe Long
\nGame: Texas\u2019 Ongoing Battle for the Direction of the Classroom\u201d (2013), which he
\nresearched as a Spencer Fellow for Education Reporting at the Columbia Journalism
\nSchool. He\u2019s produced for This American Life, The New Yorker Radio Hour,
\nMarketplace, American RadioWorks, Morning Edition, Inside Appalachia and PBS
\nFrontline. Kay also taught at the Columbia Journalism School, Marist College and the
\nState University of New York at New Paltz. He splits his time between New York\u2019s
\nHudson Valley and West Virginia’s Kanawha Valley.<\/p>\n

The taping at Marshall is the second in a series of public Us & Them events focused on
\ndiminished trust in America. Kay\u2019s team is planning future \u201ctrust\u201d related events with
\nMarshall, WVU and other West Virginia institutions.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Award-winning podcaster Trey Kay is bringing his program Us & Them to Marshall University\u2019s campus for a deep discussion about diminished trust in science. \u201cDiminished Trust: How Do We Restore Faith in Science?\u201d is scheduled for 4 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 19, in Marshall University\u2019s Drinko Library Atrium. Kay will talk with Dr. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":25868,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,41,38,45,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-cam","category-cola","category-featured","category-news-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25867"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25870,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25867\/revisions\/25870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}