Alda shared what he called his best examples of clear communication with Tomlinson and his fellow teaching assistants.
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Johnny Weissmuller, Judy Collins, Jack Nicklaus, Dinah Shore, Alan Alda, Joni Mitchell and many more.
At a gala last week, the Long Island school officially renamed it the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science.
About a decade ago, Alda said, he was in Chile filming a segment for "Scientific American Frontiers" when he was stricken with sharp stomach pains.
Also with Alan Alda, Anjelica Huston, Jerry Adler, and Lynn Cohen.
Most of the viewers, actor Alan Alda concedes, had no idea he was talking about removing a damaged piece of intestine and reconnecting the healthy pieces.
Alan Alda's unctuous, unprincipled Owen Brewster, the senator who went after Hughes on Trippe's behalf when TWA tried to break Pan Am's stranglehold on international routes.
"They're not going to ask the right questions if science doesn't explain to them what's going on in the most honest and objective way, " said Alda, 77.
Certainly, limo dispatcher Sebastian Lazaro gives the Mamet play--which features Alan Alda, Liev Schreiber and Gordon Clapp, all of whom are up for Tonys--his own personal rave.
"There's no reason for the jargon when you're trying to communicate the essence of the science to the public because you're talking what amounts to gibberish to them, " Alda said in a recent interview with The Associated Press.
Alda, who lives in New York City and has a home on eastern Long Island, said that as his 12-year tenure as host of "Scientific American Frontiers" was ending in 2005, he began seeking out a university interested in his idea for a center for communicating science.
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