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- January 31, 2012
Book on Icelandic volcano earns geosciences fellowship for Alexandra Witze
Alexandra Witze, contributing editor at Science News and a 1993 alumna of the SciCom Program, has received a reporting fellowship from the European Geosciences Union to write a book about the cataclysmic 1783 eruption of the Icelandic volcano Laki.
- January 12, 2012
SciCom alumnus Dana Mackenzie wins career mathematics writing award
Freelance journalist Dana Mackenzie, a 1997 graduate of the Science Communication Program, has earned career recognition from a consortium of national societies for his reporting in mathematics.
- December 15, 2011
Do you use "vocal fry?" It's the most popular story on ScienceNOW, ever
"Vocal fry," an oddly named low-pitched vibration used by a growing number of young speakers, rumbled into the national news in December after ScienceNOW published a story written by SciCom student Marissa Fessenden.
- December 9, 2011
SciCom students blog from the AGU newsroom in San Francisco
A popular science blog run by the American Geophysical Union featured news stories reported by SciCom students during AGU's annual fall meeting, held December 5-9 in San Francisco.
- November 17, 2011
Lecturer Martha Mendoza spearheads AP right-to-know investigation
SciCom lecturer Martha Mendoza has led a major Associated Press investigation into whether countries follow their right-to-know laws in response to media and citizen requests.
- November 13, 2011
SciCom students report for global conservation site Mongabay.com
The news section of Mongabay.com, a noted international site on conservation and the environment, features articles written by the ten graduate students in this year's Science Communication Program class at UC Santa Cruz.
- October 7, 2011
SciCom alumni write chapters for "Science on Ice" photo book
SciCom graduates Helen Fields and Hugh Powell have written chapters for Science on Ice, a chronicle of four polar science expeditions by acclaimed photographer Chris Linder.
- September 23, 2011
Science Notes 2011 earns notice in two national blogs
Science Notes 2011, the latest edition of SciCom's annual multimedia magazine, was spotlighted in the Knight Science Journalism Tracker and Scientific American's "The Incubator" blog.
- August 3, 2011
New children's book explores evolution and the origin of birds
SciCom alumna Eileen Campbell, an exhibit and interpretive writer, has published a book on evolution for kids based on a traveling exhibition she helped to create with the New York Hall of Science.
- July 18, 2011
Lecturer Ken McLaughlin earns Emmy nomination for Mercury News project
Ken McLaughlin, assistant city editor at the San Jose Mercury News and a SciCom lecturer in news reporting, has been nominated for an Emmy Award for his reporting on "Torn Apart," a multimedia project on immigration published in the Mercury News.
- July 3, 2011
Davide Castelvecchi launches new math blog at Scientific American
Davide Castelvecchi, an editor at Scientific American and a 2004 SciCom graduate, has started "Degrees of Freedom," a new math and physics blog in SciAm's online network.
- May 2, 2011
Hearst Foundations award $100,000 grant to SciCom Program
The Hearst Foundations, founded in the 1940s by William Randolph Hearst, have granted $100,000 to the Science Communication Program at UC Santa Cruz to support the program's corps of professional instructors.
- May 1, 2011
Naturalist and artist Sarah Rabkin publishes new book of essays
SciCom alumna Sarah Rabkin, class of 1985, has published "What I Learned at Bug Camp: Essays on Finding a Home in the World"—a nonfiction collection that fuses personal essay and science journalism, enriched by Rabkin's own illustrations from her explorations as a naturalist.
- April 17, 2011
Faye Flam starts evolution blog at the Philadelphia Inquirer
Faye Flam, longtime science reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer and a 1988 SciCom graduate, has launched a new blog on evolution, called "Planet of the Apes."
- December 20, 2010
Best Physics Book for 2010 authored by Anil Ananthaswamy '00
The Edge of Physics, a popular cosmology book by alumnus Anil Ananthaswamy, class of 2000, is the top physics book of 2010.
- December 17, 2010
Roberta Kwok receives feature-writing prize from American Geophysical Union
Freelance science writer Roberta Kwok, a 2008 SciCom graduate, has won the 2010 Walter Sullivan Award for Excellence in Science Journalism—Features from the American Geophysical Union.
- November 19, 2010
Multimedia journalist Kayvon Sharghi speaks at Kavli Institute
Kayvon Sharghi, a science videographer and a SciCom alumnus, class of 2009, spent time in November 2010 as a journalist in residence at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, UC Santa Barbara.
- November 7, 2010
Amber Dance receives top award for science journalists under age 30
The National Press Foundation has awarded its 2010 Evert Clark/Seth Payne Award to Amber Dance, freelance science journalist in Pasadena, CA, and a 2008 SciCom graduate. The award recognizes the nation's top science writer under age 30.