May, 2013: Alan Alda and staff from the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University visited campus May 21-24 to offer science communication training to two workshop tracks for about 50 Cornell faculty members. This workshop was hosted by the Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science. Funding was also provided by the Kavli Foundation, the Cornell Center for Materials Research (CCMR), and the Energy Materials Center at Cornell (emc2). Cornell Chronicle May 23, 2013.