Life, Science, and Journalism in Norfolk, Connecticut
Richard Kessin is available for lectures and workshops.
Please contact him at richardkessin.com for availability.
To read Rich’s latest essay A Brief History of the SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus Pandemic please click here.
Since 2011 I have been writing science columns for The Lakeville Journal and The Millerton News in the Northwest Corner of CT and neighboring New York State. Several other publications will soon pick up these explanations of current science. There are almost 100 columns on a number of topics in biology and disease. We do not shy away from science in the public or political sphere. Years of teaching and research in cell and molecular biology give me a large scientific background. It is an interesting problem to teach people who last took biology 30 or 40 years ago. Yet, they want understand modern vaccines, addiction, or the effects of a measles infection on the body’s immune system.
Norfolk Connecticut is rural, but has a glorious library and excellent librarians. People work hard to make the library a social and intellectual hub. The historical society has a microscope from the time of P&S graduate William H. Welch, one of the great reformers of American medicine, who was born and is buried here. We use a microscope from his time to teach the local kids.
I have been concentrating on subjects of interest to the local people: the opioid epidemic, aging, vaccines and, of course, coronavirus.
A complete CV is available here:
To contact me, please email me at Richard.Kessin@gmail.com.
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