Continuing Education

The Challenge of Ethical Technical Communication: Revisiting the Organizational and Communication Failures of the Challenger Explosion

Though the failure of the O-rings is known as the immediate cause of the Challenger explosion, this presentation will look at the communication failures that also contributed to the disaster.

Monday, March 6, 2023 at 3:00 pm

Presented by Jessica Lauer, Assistant Professor, Languages & Literatures


Lectures will be held on Mondays at 3 p.m. in the Olm Fellowship Hall of Fairhaven Senior Services, 435 West Starin Road, Whitewater. They are open to the public. Registration is not required. Masks may be required in common areas at Fairhaven Senior Services. Please be prepared on arrival.  Lectures will be recorded and posted to our website and YouTube channel.  Videos of lectures in this series and in past series can be accessed for free any time after they are posted online.

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