Cancer Center members often speak to student and community groups about cancer biology, specific cancers, and cancer research. Members who are willing to be asked to speak in a community setting, or to participate in a Cancer U program or the Cancer Center's annual exhibit at the Science Museum of Minnesota should contact Outreach Director Marva Bohen, R.N., bohen001@umn.edu, 612-624-2620.

Recent speaking engagements in the community have included:

• Doug Yee, M.D. (breast cancer), David Perdue, M.D. (colorectal cancer), and Rahel Ghebre, M.D. (cervical cancer), spoke at a program December 2, 2006, at the Division of Indian Work in Minneapolis.
• Marva Bohen, R.N., spoke about cancer at a community education program at Waite Park Community School in Minneapolis; for a group of African immigrants at high rises in Minneapolis (Nov. 28, 2006, Dec. 11, 2006); the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (Jan. 11, 2007); and for Oromo women (Jan. 30, 2007).
• Chris Pennell, Ph.D., spoke about cancer biology and therapy in a talk titled "Good Cells Gone Bad" at Bloomington Kennedy High School November 21, 2006, and he spoke to classes of 6th-, 7th- and 8th-graders at St. Peter Claver School January 16, 2007, in St. Paul. Pennell also gave a presentation at Boston Scientific in Maple Grove Jan. 26, 2007.