Over the past two months, dozens of former Knight Science Journalism fellows have filed smart and impactful stories about the coronavirus pandemic. They’ve covered the crisis from every angle, and from every corner of the world.
Alumni Notes: October 24, 2019
A year after its release, Marcia Bartusiak’s (‘95) recent collection of essays “Dispatches from Planet 3” is still reaping new plaudits. In October, the anthology was named a co-winner in the books category of the American Institute of Physics’ Science Communication Awards. Bartusiak will share the award with David Hu, who was recognized for “How […]
Alumni Notes: August 23, 2019
Ann Gibbons (‘88) was named the winner of the American Geophysical Union’s David Perlman Award for Excellence in Science Journalism, for her Science magazine piece “Eruption made 536 ‘the worst year to be alive.’” The prestigious Perlman award is given annually to a science news story published under deadline pressure of one week or less. […]
Alumni Notes: June 28, 2019
The last thing Reto Schneider (’98) remembered, before his car veered off the Pacific Rim Highway and into a ditch, was his wife and his 13-year-old son sleeping peacefully in the back seat. Schneider, who was at the wheel, fell asleep too. By the time he woke up, the car had rolled over and the […]
Alumni Notes: May 17, 2019
Maura O’Connor (‘17) recently published her second book, Wayfinding: The Science and Mystery of How Humans Navigate the World (St. Martin’s Press). She says the book, which is receiving wide-ranging praise, was positively influenced by her year as a KSJ fellow. “It includes a half a dozen interviews with scholars and scientists at MIT and […]
Alumni Notes: March 25, 2019
March 25, 2019 On October 12, 2014, Scott Huler (’15) stepped into a canoe in Charleston, South Carolina. Nine months later, he stepped out of one in the small North Carolina town of Bath, near where the Pamlico River empties into the Atlantic. In between, he had hiked and paddled hundreds of miles of Carolina […]