Jeanne Lenzer (2006-07) has been getting all sorts of attention for her new book “The Danger Within Us: America’s Untested, Unregulated Medical Device Industry and One Man’s Battle to Survive It.” You can hear her on NPR’s “Fresh Air“; read her scary essay “Can Your Hip Replacement Kill You?” in The New York Times; and enjoy “The Case of the Green Hairy Tongue,” a chapter she left out of the book, in Undark.
Two prestigious journalism awards for Iván Carrillo (2016-17), from the National and Mexican Councils for Science and Technology (CONACYT and COMECYT, respectively). The first is for “Axolotl: A God in Danger of Extinction,” in National Geographic Latin America; the piece explored the rapid disappearance of the axolotl salamander from the wetlands around southern Mexico City. A cult favorite of biologists, and historically venerated by the Aztecs, the axolotl is known for its friendly facial features and strange lizard-like legs.
Iván won the COMECYT award for “A Bridge of Life,” in Newsweek en Español, a fascinating and powerful story about an acquaintance who was one of the first recipients of a kidney transplant through a pioneering global exchange program. The story was based on Iván’s KSJ research project — which he also turned into a video documentary, “The Journal of Thirst.”
For his Spanish public TV program “El Cazador de Cerebros” (“The Brain Hunter”), Pere Estupinyà (2007-08) recently scored some big-name interviews: Edward O. Wilson from Harvard and Edward Boyden from the MIT Media Lab. “We’ve English-version interviews with Jennifer Doudna (gene editing), Shinya Yamanaka (iPS stem cells), and Karl Deisseroth (optogenetics) too,” Pere adds.
