(upbeat music) - In a unique collaboration, Live at the Eccles, KUER, Natural History Museum of Utah, and the University of Utah College of Science, present, "Science Friday Live" at the Eccles Theater.

News Director of KUER, Elaine Clark, is here to tell us more.

Hi, Elaine.

- Hi Mary.

- This is a great collaboration, and you're bringing in amazing people.

- Ira Flatow and Flora Lichtman, host of "Science Friday," will be here for this wonderful event, which is really gonna focus on Utah science.

- Which is great.

I know it's gonna be highly interactive.

We get to see how a museum puts together an exhibit.

So, tell us a little more about that, and the animator.

- Janet Iwasa is the head of the animation labs for the University of Utah, and a science animator, so, with a focus on microbiology.

And she, along with the director of exhibits from the Natural History Museum, will be there to talk about how to create an exhibit, which I'm really interested to see, because it really gets to this idea of, how do you engage the public in science?

- Oh, yeah.

Which is really important these days.

Incredibly important.

But I've always been curious myself, how do they put those huge exhibits together?

I mean, it's impressive.

- Well, I guess we'll learn.

You have to be there, Mary.

(Mary laughs) - I know.

And then you've got some of your own people coming there.

Tell us about what they're doing.

- KUER's environment reporter, David Condos, is based in St. George, but he will be here in Salt Lake City for the event.

We partnered with KSL and with the Colorado River Collaborative to do a series of stories on agriculture along the Colorado River, which, of course, with drought and use is really threatened the water resource.

And that, you know, supplies 40 million people.

So, we were focusing on solutions in agriculture, and one of those is looking at native plants.

So, that's gonna be a really interesting conversation about the Southwest peach.

- All right.

And a great evening.

So, thank you so much for presenting it.

Thank you.

- Thank you.

- And if you'd like to know more about that great program, "Science Friday," coming up at the Eccles Theater, March 29th, just go to kuer.org.

Kuer.org.

I'm Mary Dickson, thanks for watching "Contact."

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