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Emily Calandrelli FREDONIA — Emily Calandrelli, an MIT engineer turned Emmy-nominated science television host, will serve as the keynote speaker for the Convocation 2020-2021 series at the State University at Fredonia. Her address, “Empathetic Science Communication in an Increasingly Polarized World,” will be presented over Zoom on Tuesday, Feb. 23, at 3 p.m. The Convocation Committee’s selection of Calandrelli was made in the spirit of Mae Jemison, an engineer, physician and former NASA astronaut who became the first Black woman to complete a mission in outer space in 1992. “It’...