This partial alumni list shows the diversity of careers the program makes possible.

Women have outnumbered men by about three to one, and biologists predominate.

A Ph.D. confers no advantage over a B.S. or master’s degree in admissions.

Amy Adams ('96) B.A., biology, Whitman College; M.S., genetics and development, Cornell University; internships: Monterey Bay Aquarium, Santa Cruz Sentinel; jobs: freelance and marketing communications writer, Clontech; department editor, Genetic Health; science writer, Stanford Medical School; current job: communications manager, California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Freelance clients have included New Scientist, The Scientist, Science, Discovery Channel Online, Astronomy, and Triumph. Author of one book: The Human Muscular System.
    WEB SITE: http://www.amywriter.com

Robert Adler (’99) B.S., physics and mathematics, University of New Mexico; Ph.D., psychology, UC Berkeley; internships at NASA Ames, California Wild, and New Scientist, London. Currently freelancing and writing books. Clients include Nature, New Scientist, California Wild, Astronomy, StarDate, Alaska Airlines Magazine, and the Boston Globe. His 1988 book, Sharing the Children: How to Resolve Custody Problems and Get On With Your Life, was reprinted by Author House. His next book, Science Firsts: From the Creation of Science to the Science of Creation, was published by Wiley & Sons in fall 2002, followed in March 2004 by Medical Firsts: From Hippocrates to the Human Genome.

Jan Ambrosini (’83) B.A., biology and environmental studies, UC Santa Cruz; internship: Not Man Apart (newsletter of Friends of the Earth); jobs: publications coordinator, Agroecology Program, UC Santa Cruz; freelance editor for Addison-Wesley Publishing Company; associate director, Engineering Public Affairs, UC Berkeley; currently communications director for the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3) and freelance editor for nonprofit and university clients.

Anil Ananthaswamy (’00) B.Tech, electronics, IIT-Madras, India; M.S.E.E. University of Washington, Seattle; internship: New Scientist; freelance and San Francisco correspondent for New Scientist (2001-2003); staff writer, then physical sciences news editor, then deputy news editor for New Scientist in London; currently writing a cosmology book for Houghton Mifflin and freelancing.

Sherri Willard Argyres (’92) B.S, microbiology, Oregon State University; M.A., microbiology and molecular genetics, Harvard; internship: Associated Press; jobs: communications coordinator, Office of the Dean of Students, University of Oregon; assistant director, Office of Student Retention Programs, University of Oregon; current job, head advisor and program coordinator, College of Agricultural Sciences, Oregon State University.

Christie Aschwanden (’98) B.A., biology, University of Colorado, Boulder; internship: KGNU radio, Boulder, Colorado; first and current job, freelance writer and producer for KGNU radio’s science show in Boulder, CO. Clients include Health (contributing editor), Science Online, HMS Beagle, High Country News, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Massachusetts Medical Society, and the American Chemical Society.
    WEB SITE: http://www.nasw.org/users/christie/

Daniel Bachtold (’02) M.S., zoology, Univ. of Zurich, Switzerland; Ph.D., zoology, Univ. of Zurich. Internships: ZDF television, Spektrum der Wissenschaft (German edition of Scientific American), Monterey County Herald, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford, European News Office of Science magazine at Cambridge, UK; first and current job: science writer/editor for the daily newspaper Tages-Anzeiger in Zurich.

Lisa Bain (’83) B.A., biology, UC Santa Cruz; M.A., immunology, UC Berkeley School of Public Health. Internship: Milwaukee Journal (AAAS Mass Media Fellow); first job: associate editor, UCSF Magazine at UC San Francisco; second job: science writer and public affairs officer at University of Pennsylvania Health System; third job: Research project manager and website manager at The Deafness & Family Communication Center, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; current job: grant writer and scientific editor at University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Also, longtime freelance writer, including three books about parenting children with special needs, feature articles, and scientific reports.

Mitzi Baker (’96) B.S., biology and psychology, Johns Hopkins University. First internship: Stanford University Medical Center News Bureau; second internship and first job: Health magazine. Other jobs include public information officer at UC Davis News Service, AIDS writer for UCSF, marketing communications writer for a biotech company and freelance projects ranging from 8th-grade level encyclopedia articles to medical education. Current position: back at Stanford University Medical Center as a science writer.

Oliver Baker (’99) A.B. and Ph.D., biophysics, UC Berkeley; internships: ScienceNOW, Science News; first and current job, freelancing from Davis, California, lately for the radio project, "Science and the Search for Meaning in the 21st Century."
    WEB SITE: http://www.oliverbaker.com

Marcia Barinaga (’87) A.B., biochemistry and environmental studies, Bowdoin College; Ph.D., molecular biology, UC San Diego; postdoctoral fellow, Stanford; internship: Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch (AAAS Mass Media Fellow); first job: West Coast correspondent for Nature; second job, contributing correspondent for Science. Currently ranching in northern California.

Christine Bartels (’86) B.Sc., biological and chemical sciences, University of Tuebingen, Germany; M.S., biochemistry and biophysics, Oregon State University; Ph.D., linguistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; internship: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Jobs: DNA workshop coordinator, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; executive editor, Springer-Verlag New York; commissioning editor, Cambridge University Press; linguistic analyst, InGenuity Systems; current job, International Quality Analyst, Google; all along, freelance editor for scholarly (and some not so scholarly) presses.

Mary Beckman (’98) B.S., biology, UC Irvine; Ph.D., molecular biology, University of Colorado at Boulder; first internship: The Exploratorium, San Francisco; second internship: Idaho National Laboratory (INL); first job, science writer at INL; second job, freelancing from Idaho; current position: senior science writer at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington.
    WEB SITE: http://nasw.org/users/mbeckman/

Melissa Blouin (’91) B.A., chemistry, Oberlin College; internship: ZooGoer, the magazine of Friends of the National Zoo; first job, health reporter and later lifestyles editor for the Northwest Arkansas Times. Second job, science and research communications manager, University of Arkansas and founder and editor of University of Arkansas Research Frontiers, a semi-annual magazine showcasing University of Arkansas research; winner of two awards in science writing from the Council for the Support and Advancement of Education.

Genevieve Bookwalter ('02) B.S., biology, and B.A., rhetoric, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; internships: The Californian (Salinas, CA) and fellow with the Institutes for Journalism and Natural Resources; first job: environment writer, the Union Democrat (Sonora, CA); current job: staff writer for the Santa Cruz Sentinel and occasional freelancer.

Kevin Boyd (’96) B.S., microbiology, UC Santa Barbara; internships: National Public Radio science desk, KQED-FM in San Francisco. Previous jobs: freelancing; public information science writer at UC San Francisco; and exhibits writer at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Current job: science writer at The Exploratorium in San Francisco.

Brandon Brown (’98) B.A., physics, Rice University; Ph.D., physics, Oregon State University; currently professor of physics and associate dean for sciences at University of San Francisco; biophysics research involves the electric sense of sharks, skates, and rays; freelance writer for Physical Review Focus.

Martha Brown (’82) B.A., biology and sociology, UC Santa Cruz; internship: SW Fisheries Service (federal lab, San Diego); first job: writer/editor Mussel Watch Project, California Department of Fish and Game; second job: editor, Environmental Field Program, UC Santa Cruz; current jobs: senior editor, Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems, UC Santa Cruz; freelance writer and editor for various natural history publications and organizations; field researcher for U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Midway Atoll.

Ewen Callaway (’07) B.A., biology, Colorado College; M.S., microbiology, University of Washington; first internship: Nature (Washington, D.C.); second internship: Science News; first job: biomedical reporter, New Scientist, in Cambridge, MA.

Eileen Campbell (’83) B.S., zoology, UC Davis; master's work in marine biology, San Francisco State University; internship: Pacific Discovery (former magazine of the California Academy of Sciences); first job: writer and exhibit developer for the Monterey Bay Aquarium; second job: Interpretive Coordinator for new exhibits at the San Francisco Zoo; currently consulting nationally as a museum and aquarium exhibit developer and writer. Principal of Farallon Media, which provides writing, exhibit planning, video and web production.

Alice Cascorbi (’95) B.A., biology, Carleton College; M.S., Conservation Biology, University of Minnesota; internships: Monterey Bay Aquarium, UC Santa Cruz Long Marine Lab, Sea Studios. Returned to graduate school; worked as writer/editor for the State of Minnesota's Environmental Indicators Initiative and as writer/researcher for the University of Minnesota. Freelance credits include Exploring magazine; ABCNews.com; Encarta online encyclopedia. First job: exhibits writer for the Chicago Academy of Sciences. Current job: writer for the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

Davide Castelvecchi (’04) Laurea, mathematics, University of Rome; Ph.D., mathematics, Stanford University. Internships: Fermilab, Physical Review Focus. First job: web editor at the American Institute of Physics and freelance writer for Sky & Telescope, New Scientist, and Are We Alone? Current job: physics writer, Science News.
    WEB SITE: http://sciencewriter.org

Kenneth Chang (’95) B.A., physics, Princeton University; M.S., University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana; internship: (two-year Times-Mirror Metpro), first year: Los Angeles Times; second year: Greenwich Time (CT). Freelancing and a temporary science writing job at The Star-Ledger (Newark, N.J.) led to a 2-1/2-year stint at ABCNEWS.com and then his current job: science reporter at The New York Times.

Marina Chicurel (’99) B.S., basic biomedical research, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico; Ph.D., neurobiology, Harvard University; postdoctoral researcher, cell biology, Harvard; first and current job: freelance writer and consultant. Clients include: Science, Nature, the Hereditary Disease Foundation, and Affymetrix.

Miyoko Chu (’93) B.A., biology, Yale University; Ph.D., integrative biology, UC Berkeley; internship, The Oakland Tribune; first job: science editor, Cornell Lab of Ornithology; now director of communications at the same lab. Author of Songbird Journeys (Walker & Company, 2006) and Birdscapes (Chronicle Books, in press, 2008).

Phil Cohen (’95) B.S., biology, MIT; Ph.D., molecular biology, UC Berkeley; interned at New Scientist for six months, then hired as a U.S. correspondent for New Scientist and (later) San Francisco bureau chief. Next job: senior science writer for the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), New York City. Now freelancing in New York.

Krista Conger (’99) B.A., biochemistry, UC Berkeley; Ph.D., cancer biology, Stanford University; internship and first job: science writer for Stanford Medical Center Office of News and Public Affairs. Second job: researcher for Health magazine. Current job: senior science writer for Stanford Medical Center.

Robert Coontz (’90) B.A., mathematics, Swarthmore College; M.S., hydrology, Stanford University; internship and first job: an environmental newsletter in Scotland; second job: senior editor at The Sciences (former magazine of the New York Academy of Sciences) and adjunct professor at the Science and Environmental Reporting Program at New York University; third job: senior editor at Earth; freelanced for New Scientist, American Scientist, IEEE Spectrum and other publications; member, board of advisors, Muse; member, board of directors, Carus Publishing Company; current job: deputy news editor for physical sciences in the News department of Science.

Julie Corliss (’89) B.A., biology, Oberlin College; internship: National Cancer Institute public information office; jobs: research reporter, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture; public affairs specialist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; medical writer for HealthNews, consumer health newsletter from the Massachusetts Medical Society; currently senior medical editor for Special Health Reports, published by Harvard Health Publications.

Rachel Courtland (’07) B.A., physics, University of Pennsylvania; M.S., physics, Emory University; internships: Idaho National Laboratory, Nature (Washington, D.C.); first job: space reporter, New Scientist, in Cambridge, MA.

Louisa Dalton (’01) B.S., biochemistry, Brigham Young University; internship: Idaho National Laboratory; first job: science and technology reporter for Chemical & Engineering News; now freelancing from Virginia.

Alison Davis (’97) B.S., biochemistry, Virginia Tech; Ph.D., pharmacology, Georgetown University; postdoc, developmental biology, Stanford University; first internship: Palo Alto Weekly newspaper; second internship, NASA Ames Research Center; first job: science writer at NASA and freelance writer; second job: science writer for the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH); third and current job: freelance science/science policy writer and editor (clients: NIH, FDA, and others).

Lisa Davis (’85) B.A., biology, UC Santa Cruz; internships: Psychology Today and Science News; first job: temporary biology reporter, Science News; second job: writer, editor, and then articles editor, Health (San Francisco). Freelance clients include Reader's Digest, Reader's Digest Books, the Los Angeles Times, Discover, More, Real Simple, and O, the Oprah magazine. Currently deputy executive editor, Prevention magazine, in New York.

Laurie K. Doepel (’84) B.A., sociology, UC Santa Cruz; second-degree candidate, biology, University of Colorado, Boulder. Internship at NIH Office of Communications. Continued at NIH, first as science writer/editor for NIH Clinical Center; next as science writer/media liaison for National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). Became chief of NIAID News and Media Relations; currently Acting Director, NIAID Office of Communications and Public Liaison.

Pamela Donegan (’95) B.S., biology, College of William and Mary; M.A., vertebrate physiology and behavior, San Francisco State University; internship: Harvard Health Letter; first job: managing editor of Catnip Newsletter from Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine; second job: freelance medical writer for Hippocrates; and writer for HealthNews, consumer health newsletter from the Massachusetts Medical Society, publishers of the New England Journal of Medicine; next job: freelance writer for assorted medical-information organizations, including WebMD; currently catalog librarian for the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe.

Jennie Dusheck (’85) B.A., zoology, UC Berkeley; M.A., zoology, UC Davis; internship: Science News; first jobs: writer for a college-level textbook and editor, IMS News and Science Notes (five awards). Freelance work includes feature articles for Pacific Discovery, Science, Nature, and Natural History; book reviews for the San Francisco Chronicle; and coauthoring three editions of a college-level introductory biology text, Asking About Life, 3/e, 2005.

Quinn Eastman (’04) B.S., chemistry, MIT; Ph.D. biochemistry, Yale; internship: Bakersfield Californian; first job: reporter for the North County Times (Escondido, CA); current job: science writer for the Emory University School of Medicine, Georgia.

Blake Edgar (’89) B.A., zoology and anthropology, UC Berkeley; internship: Pacific Discovery (California Academy of Sciences); first job: assistant then associate editor, Pacific Discovery; Science Writing Fellow at MBL, Woods Hole, MA (’91); co-author of The Dawn of Human Culture (John Wiley, '02), From Lucy to Language (Simon & Schuster,'96), and Ancestors (Villard '94). Current job: senior science editor at the University of California Press, acquiring books about biology, anthropology, and wine.

David Egerter (’88) A.B., human biology, Stanford; M.S., entomology, UC Berkeley; Ph.D., parasitology, UC Berkeley; internship: Medical World News; first job: assistant editor, Diagnostic Imaging magazine (Miller Freeman, San Francisco); other jobs at Miller Freeman: executive editor, Diagnostic Imaging magazine; editor, MR magazine; publisher, Healthcare Education Products; since Miller Freeman: VP operations, Women's Health Review newsletter; Senior Editor, Prohealth (medical education division of FCB Healthcare); Editorial and Scientific Services Supervisor, Grey Healthcare West; currently Vice President, Scientific Services, ApotheCom Associates, LLC (Oakland, CA).

Rachel Ehrenberg (’03) B.A., botany and political science, University of Vermont; M.A., evolutionary biology, University of Michigan; internship: Dallas Morning News; first job: science writer for the news office at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; current job, staff writer for Science News.

Eva Emerson (’94) B.A., biology, UC Santa Cruz; internships: The Californian (Salinas, CA); UPI science and technology desk (Washington D.C.); first job: science content coordinator for The Magic School Bus children's educational TV show; second job: part-time writer/reporter and copy editor, The Honolulu Weekly and part-time freelance; third job: science and medical writer, University of Southern California; fourth job: writer and publications coordinator, education department of the California Science Center; fifth job: freelance writer, editor and researcher; sixth job: senior science writer, USC College of Letters, Arts & Sciences; now assistant editor at Science News.

Ava Ferguson (’84) B.A., biology, UC Santa Cruz; M.A., education, San Francisco State University; internship: Cable News Network (Washington, D.C. bureau); first job: researcher (later promoted to associate producer), Science and Technology Unit, Cable News Network, Atlanta; then freelanced in Santa Cruz, specializing in producing science educational materials; now an exhibit developer and writer, Monterey Bay Aquarium.

Cassie Ferguson (’96) B.A., biology and art, UC Santa Cruz; internships; NASA Ames and Harvard University News Office; first job: science writer for Harvard Medical School; second job: science writer and web developer for the Harvard University news office; third job: senior science writer for UC San Diego; fourth job: senior writer for Caltech. Now raising a family in Santa Fe and occasional freelance writer.

Helen Fields (’03) B.A., biology, Carleton College; M.S., biological sciences, Stanford University; internship: U.S. News & World Report; first job, reporter, U.S. News & World Report; current job, Departments editor and writer, National Geographic.

Leslie Fink (’83) B.A., biology, James Madison University; internship: National Cancer Institute public information office; first job: National Institute for Child Health and Human Development public information office; second job: Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases public information office (NIH); third job: Chief of Communications, Human Genome Project (NIH); fourth job: Chief of Communications, Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH); current job: Head, Media Relations and Public Information, Office of Legislative and Public Affairs, National Science Foundation.

Faye Flam (’88) B.S., geophysics, Caltech; internships: The Economist (London), Science News; jobs: news office, National Institute of Standards and Technology; Washington, D.C., bureau chief, ChemWeek; staff writer, Science; now science writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Author of The Score: How the Quest for Sex Has Shaped the Modern Man (Penguin, 2008).
    WEB SITE: http://www.fayeflam.com

Sheila Foster (’94) B.A., biology, UC Santa Cruz; first job: science writer at Sea Studios, a video production company in Monterey, CA; second job: editor/photographer/journalist for the Broome Advertiser, West Kimberley’s (Australia) regional newspaper; third job: public information officer for Australian Institute of Marine Science; fourth job, content director for Archipelago Productions (Monterey, CA) for their distance learning course; fifth job, news writer, Stanford Medical Center News Office; sixth job, publicity director for "The Shape of Life," a television series co-produced by Sea Studios, Monterey and National Geographic Society.

Karen Fox (’93) B.A., M.A., physics and English, Amherst College; internship: Santa Cruz Sentinel; first job: Science; second job: Science Report Radio; now freelance science writer and web diva. Author of The Chain Reaction: Profiles in Nuclear Science (Grolier, 1998), The Big Bang: What It Is, Where It Came from, and How It works (John Wiley, 2002), and Einstein: A to Z (co-authored with Aries Keck) (John Wiley, 2004).
    WEB SITE: http://www.karenceliafox.com/

Roberta Friedman (’85) B.A., neuroscience; Ph.D., pharmacology, Vanderbilt University; internships: NASA Ames and Stanford University news offices; jobs included contributing editor for BioWorld and BioCentury, both trade biotech publications; contributor to WebMD, CBS Healthwatch, Reuters, BioMedNet, and Doctor's Guide to the Internet. Magazine articles appeared in Natural History and California Wild. Employed for three years by The ALS Association to write on research into Lou Gehrig's disease. Now freelancing for continuing medical education clients and other projects.

Sue Goetinck Ambrose (’94) B.A. biology, University of Pennsylvania; Ph.D., molecular genetics, Washington University in St. Louis; internship: The Dallas Morning News; first and current job: science writer, The Dallas Morning News.

Jessica Gorman (’97) B.A., chemical physics, Swarthmore College; internship: The Californian (Salinas, CA); first job: reporter, Discover; second job: chemistry and materials science writer, Science News; 2003-04 Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT; current job: deputy editor, CR Magazine, Philadelphia.

Anna Gosline ('04) B.Sc Zoology, University of Toronto; internships at Public Library of Science (PLoS) and New Scientist (London). Currently freelancing from Vancouver BC. Clients include New Scientist, the Los Angeles Times, Scientific American, Scientific American MIND. Also editing and managing the girl nerd science website Inkling Magazine.

Brittany Grayson ('07 ) B.S., ecology, Purdue University; internship: Discover magazine's online site; first and current job: science writer for SeaWeb/COMPASS, an ocean-science and marine conservation consortium in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Katie Greene (’01) B.Sc., individual program of study, Harvey Mudd College; M.S., physical oceanography, University of Washington; internships: Popular Science, Science, Earth and Sky radio; currently freelancing from San Francisco.

Sean Griffing ('02) B.A. biology, Oberlin College; internship: Cornell Lab of Ornithology; freelanced for Earth and Sky radio; currently completing a Ph.D. at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at Emory University, focusing on the origin and spread of drug-resistant malaria.

John Gustafson (’83) B.S., astronomy, University of Arizona; M.A., astronomy and astrophysics, UC Santa Cruz; internship: Caltech public information office; first job: public information writer, Lick Observatory (UCSC); second job: University of California Office of the President, writer for the Keck Ten-Meter Telescope (Caltech and UC); third job: director of public affairs, Los Alamos National Laboratory; currently chief of staff for International & Applied Technology at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Sarah Steinberg Gustafson (’83) B.A., biology, UC Santa Cruz; internship: Science News; first and current job: public information writer and editor for the University of California Natural Reserve System. Also writing science and natural history books for children.

Lila Guterman (’98) A.B., chemistry, Harvard University; M.S., chemistry, Caltech; internship, New Scientist, London office; first job: freelancing, mainly for New Scientist; second job: assistant editor for Modern Drug Discovery and Today’s Chemist at Work, monthly magazines published by the American Chemical Society; current job, senior reporter and science writer for The Chronicle of Higher Education; 2006-07 Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. Winner of the 2002 Evert Clark/Seth Payne award, a national award for young science writers; the 2003 Media Award from the American Society of Anesthesiologists. Finalist for the 2005 Livingston Award.
    WEB SITE: http://nasw.org/users/guterman

Michael Hagmann (’98) Dipl., biochemistry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology; Ph.D., molecular biology, University of Zurich; internship: Discover magazine; first job: staff writer at Science; second job: science writer for Sonntagszeitung, Switzerland's leading weekly newspaper; current job: head Corporate Communication at Empa. Materials Science & Technology, a research institution that is part of the ETH domain (Swiss Federal Research Institutes).

Linley Erin Hall (’02) B.S., chemistry, Harvey Mudd College; internship: Stanford University Medical Center Office of Communication and Public Affairs; first job: Science Writer and Editor for the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering at Arizona State University; current job: freelance writer and editor in Berkeley. Author of Who's Afraid of Marie Curie? The Challenges Facing Women and Science in Technology.
    WEB SITE: http://www.linleyerinhall.com

Raven Hanna ('05) B.A., biochemistry, UC Santa Cruz; Ph.D., molecular biophysics and biochemistry, Yale University; postdoctoral work, UC Berkeley; internships: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, NASA Astrobiology Institute, Emergent Matter Project; first and current job: started business that aims to communicate science through unusual means; also editor of the UC Berkeley MCB department newsletter.
    WEB SITE: http://www.madewithmolecules.com

Stephen Hart (’89) B.A., zoology; teaching certificate, biology; MAT, biology, all at the University of Washington. Internships: Science News, KUSP radio (Santa Cruz), Santa Cruz Sentinel. Still freelance writing and editing after all these years, I specialize in science, medicine and technology. I have written for and edited middle-school and college science textbooks; written more than 20 features for NASA's Astrobiology Magazine (that could be described as microbiology and evolution for rocket scientists); and worked on my multimedia web site, The Animal Communication Project, which contains the full text of my 1996 book The Language of Animals, as well as dozens of news shorts.
    WEB SITE: http://nasw.org/users/hart

Laura Helmuth (’98) B.S., biological psychology, Eckerd College; Ph.D., cognitive neuroscience, UC Berkeley; internships: Idaho National Laboratory, Science News and Science; first job: editor for ScienceNOW and writer for Science; second job: associate news editor at Science; current job: senior science editor at Smithsonian.

Melissa Hendricks (’88) B.A., biology, Wesleyan; internships: Science News, Psychology Today, Science Update (AAAS radio program); first job: senior science writer, Johns Hopkins Magazine; earned a gold medal from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) for a feature about an aggression gene. Currently, freelancing for AARP Magazine, Ladies' Home Journal, and others, and teaching for the Johns Hopkins graduate writing program.

Peg Herring ('86) B.A., environmental science and biology, University of Virginia; M.S., journalism and literary non-fiction, University of Oregon; internship at UC Natural Reserve System. First job: freelance science writer and illustrator (for agency and academic research in US Forest Service, NPS, Oregon's Governor's Office and several universities in US and Australia). Co-authored two books: At the Crossroads of Science, Management, and Policy (Island Press 1999) and Forest of Time (OSU Press 2007). Currently assistant professor at Oregon State University and editor of the research magazine, Oregon's Agricultural Progress.

Christian Heuss (’02) Dipl. Biol., biochemistry and molecular biology, University of Basel; Dr. sc. nat./PhD, neurosciences, University of Zurich; Internships: ScienceNOW, Swiss Radio DRS, Swiss Television, Sonntags-Zeitung. First and current job: Science correspondent for Swiss Radio DRS. Freelance work for a variety of Swiss and German newspapers and magazines. Member of the board of the Swiss Association for Science Journalism.

Hannah Hickey ('05) B.S., physics, McMaster University; M.S., physical oceanography, University of Victoria; internship: Idaho National Laboratory; first and current job: engineering writer in the University of Washington's news office.

Rusten Hogness (’93) M.A., history of science, Johns Hopkins; current job: freelance writer and producer for public radio; current projects: California Bird Talk (radio series on bird communication), GleaningStories (radio and Web series on gleaning and sustainable agriculture).
  WEB SITE: http://www.calbirdtalk.org

Bob Holmes (’92) B.A., zoology, University of Alberta; Ph.D., ecology, University of Arizona; internship: U.S. News and World Report. Currently a correspondent for New Scientist and freelancing from Edmonton, Alberta.

Carol Howard (’85) B.A., psychology, University of Minnesota; M.A., biology, UCSC; internship: Psychology Today; first job: deputy director of the UCSC Science Communication Program and editor of Science Notes. Freelance work: author of Dolphin Chronicles (Bantam, 1996) a popular account of my graduate work with dolphins; co-author of a chapter in Incredible Voyage: Exploring the Human Body, a National Geographic Society Book. Current job: science writer and communications coordinator for the Johns Hopkins University Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing.

Amanda Iles (’82) B.A., biology, UC San Diego; internship: California Sea Grant Program, Scripps Institution of Oceanography; first job: life sciences editor & reporter for the News Bureau at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; second job: writer, Regis McKenna public relations (Palo Alto, Calif.); currently living in Ashland, Ore., and working as a freelance marketing writer and communication consultant for (mostly) high-technology companies.

Mason Inman (’04) B.S., physics, UC Santa Barbara; internships at the journal PLoS Biology; the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland; and Science magazine's international office in Cambridge, UK. Now freelancing from Cambridge, MA, for Science, New Scientist, and National Geographic News. Soon moving to Karachi, Pakistan. Winner of a 2008-09 Middlebury Fellowship in Environmental Journalism to report on the monsoon floods in Bangladesh.
    WEB SITE: http://masonmade.com

Robert Irion (’88) B.S., earth and planetary sciences, MIT; internship: Chicago Tribune (AAAS Mass Media Fellow); first job: science writer in the UC Santa Cruz public information office; second job: freelance magazine journalist and book author in physical sciences and lecturer in feature writing for the Science Communication Program; currently director of the program. (See faculty list for longer bio.)

Pat Janowski (’88) B.S. physics, UC San Diego; internship: IEEE Spectrum; first job: Physics Today; second job: freelance, with clients including Science, OMNI, the National Research Council, the Institute of Medicine; third job: the Association of Science-Technology Centers; fourth job: freelance, additional clients including The Sciences, Oregon Health and Science University, the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, The Oregonian newspaper; fifth job: American Foundation for AIDS Research; final job: freelance, with additional science writing clients including Yale University, Scientific American, Discover; and corporate marketing clients. Backup singer, booker and producer for mildly successful but defunct Portland band the Ditty Twisters.

Karin Jegalian (’98) B.S., biochemistry, UC Los Angeles; Ph.D., biology, MIT; internship: Dallas Morning News; first job: Human Genome Project, National Institutes of Health, and freelancing for newspapers and magazines; second job: Associate Editor for American Scientist; third and current job: freelance writer and editor outside Washington D.C., working primarily for NIH and the University of Maryland.

Sonja Jones-Shin (’94) B.S., science journalism, Northwestern University; interned at NASA Ames in public affairs, on the Discovery Channel show The Next Step, and at KRON-TV. Produced and researched medical reports for NBC Network News, New York. Next jobs, reporting medical news on air for KPLR-TV (WB), St. Louis and as a general assignment reporter at KIRO-TV (CBS), Seattle. Currently in the S.F. Bay Area producing sci-tech videos at NASA and freelance reports on technology.

Alla Katsnelson ('07) A.B., biology, psychology, and linguistics, Cornell University; Ph.D., neurophysiology, University of Oxford, U.K.; first and current job: news editor at The Scientist, Philadelphia.

Jyllian Kemsley (’03) B.A., chemistry, Amherst College; Ph.D., chemistry, Stanford University; internship: Chemical & Engineering News; first job, freelancing for the Forbes/Wolfe Nanotech Report (contributing editor) and the Santa Cruz Sentinel. Current job: associate editor, West Coast bureau, Chemical & Engineering News.

Gina Kirchweger ('00) Ph.D., molecular biology, University of Vienna, Austria; internships: Universum Magazin, Vienna, Austria; P.M. magazine, Munich, Germany; freelance writer for mostly overseas journals, magazines, and newspapers (from 2000 through today); first job: part-time science writer at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA; currently director of scientific communications at the Salk Institute.

Beate Kittl (’99) M.S., biology, University of Basel, Switzerland; internship: Discover; first and current job, Facts, Switzerland's leading weekly news magazine, in Zurich.

Erica Klarreich (’01) B.A., mathematics, Brooklyn College; Ph.D., mathematics, State University of New York at Stony Brook; internship: Nature; first job: journalist in residence, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, California; current job: mathematics correspondent for Science News and freelancer.

Elise Kleeman ('05) B.S., geology, California Institute of Technology; internship: Discover; first job: science writer for Pasadena Star News; current job: freelance writer for NewScientist.com and other publications.

Gary Kliewer (’92) B.A., environmental studies, UC Santa Cruz; internship: AAAS radio, Washington, D.C.; first job: Public Affairs, UC Santa Cruz; second job: publisher, Coast Gardens Magazine. Third job: public information officer for Los Alamos National Laboratory. After serving as editor of publications for Southern Oregon University, in Ashland, he launched Caveat Press, publishing consumer health-care books. Caveat recently acquired two new trade book imprints, White Cloud Press and RiverWood Books.
   WEB SITE: http://www.caveatbooks.com

Jonathan Knight (’97) B.A., biology, Oberlin College; Ph.D., molecular biology, UC Berkeley; internship, New Scientist, London; first job, west coast correspondent for New Scientist (San Francisco bureau); second job, contributing correspondent for Nature; currently teaching at San Francisco State University and freelancing.

Reto Kohler (’00) B.A., Ph.D., biology, University of Fribourg (Switzerland); internship: The Californian (Salinas, CA) and Facts (Switzerland's leading weekly newsmagazine); worked for Tages-Anzeiger, Switzerland's second largest daily newspaper, 2000-2003. Wrote a widely reviewed and controversial biography about Walter Stuerm, Switzerland's best known criminal and jail activist. Worked as a freelance science and people writer for various Swiss newspapers and magazines. Current job: science editor for BLICK, Switzerland's largest newspaper, 2005-present.

Juhi Yajnik Kunde ('06) B.S., biochemistry and cell biology, UC San Diego; M.A., molecular, cellular and developmental biology, University of Texas, Austin; internship: The Scientist; freelance writer for the Baltimore Examiner, biotech industry, and non-profit sector; current job: hardcopy and electronic newsletter editor for the Prevent Cancer Foundation in Alexandria, VA.

Esther Landhuis (’04) B.S., biological sciences, Stanford University, Ph.D., immunology, Harvard University; internship: San Jose Mercury News; freelance clients include ScienceNOW, SAGE Crossroads, Biomedical Computation Review; currently raising two toddlers in the SF Bay Area and working part-time as a science writer for the Alzheimer Research Forum.

Brian Lee (’07) B.S., gerontology, University of Southern California; M.A., molecular cellular and developmental biology, UC Santa Barbara; internship: Stanford University School of Medicine; first and current job: writer and researcher for Threshold Enterprises / Planetary Formulas, Scotts Valley, CA.

Mitch Leslie (’98) B.S., biology, University of Utah; M.A., zoology, University of Texas; first job: writer, Stanford University Medical Center; current job: freelance and contributing writer, Science.

Patricia Long (’86) B.A., psychology and social work; M.S., nutrition, Pennsylvania State University; internship, Psychology Today; first trade book, The Nutritional Ages of Women, Macmillan (Book-of-the-Month Club alternate); first job: freelance and then staff writer, Health magazine; second job: editorial director Thrive,
an online health and lifestyle magazine; current job: Project manager, VA Hepatitis C and HIV Web sites (employer is UCSF).

Greta Lorge (’03) B.A. human biology, Stanford University; M.S. neuroscience, University of Michigan; internships: California Wild, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, WIRED; first job: assistant research editor and freelance writer at WIRED. Currently associate editor at Stanford Magazine and freelancing for WIRED and other publications.

Alisa Zapp Machalek (’94) B.S., biochemistry, Michigan State University; M.S., biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison; first and current job, science writer for the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, a division of the National Institutes of Health that supports basic biomedical research. Her NIGMS booklet, Inside the Cell, has won awards from the Society for Technical Communication.

Dana Mackenzie (’97) B.A., mathematics, Swarthmore College; Ph.D., mathematics, Princeton University; internship: American Scientist. Jobs: freelance writer for clients including Discover, Science, New Scientist, National Academy of Sciences; occasional freelance editor for American Scientist. Author of The Big Splat, or How Our Moon Came to Be (Wiley, 2003), named as one of Booklist's four top science books for 2003 and one of the New York Public Library's 100 best books for teens.

Jessica Marshall (’05) B.S.E. chemical engineering, Princeton University; M.S. chemical engineering, UC Berkeley; Ph.D. chemical engineering, UC Berkeley; internships: ScienceNOW, New Scientist (San Francisco). First job: freelance writing and science writing lecturer in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota. Current job: environment reporter for Discovery Channel online.

Beth Martin (’96) B.S., biology, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana; internship: Sea Studios, science films, Monterey; first job: freelance; second job: communications manager at the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3); currently writing articles about electronics design for a high-tech company in the SF Bay Area.

Betsy Mason (’01) B.A., geology, Princeton University; M.S., geology, Stanford University; internships: The Dallas Morning News, California Wild (S.F. Academy of Sciences), New Scientist (S.F. bureau), Nature (Washington D.C.); first job: freelance writer for New Scientist, Discover, Nature, ScienceNOW, The Scientist, Stanford News Service; current job: science writer for the Contra Costa Times (S.F. Bay Area). Her series on the centennial of the San Francisco earthquake for the Contra Costa Times received the 2007 David Perlman Award from the American Geophysical Union for excellence in news reporting.

Barbara Masters (’84) B.A., biology, UC Berkeley; M.A., biochemistry, University of Colorado; internship: FM radio station in Colorado (AAAS Mass Media Fellow); first job: policy writer (medicine, science and technology) for U.S. Senator Alan Cranston. Currently vice president of a consortium of hospitals in northern California.

Maggie McKee (’00) B.A., physics, Grinnell College; internships at Harvard Medical School, California Wild; jobs: fact checker at Health magazine; associate editor at Astronomy magazine; currently a reporter and editor at NewScientistSpace.com.

Aline McKenzie (’89) B.S., chemistry, MIT; M.A., neuroscience, UC San Francisco; first internship: the Lompoc (Calif.) Record; second internship: Science News; first job: (Vallejo, CA) Times-Herald, followed by twelve years as a staff reporter at the Dallas Morning News; second job: The Science Place in Dallas, Texas; current position: senior writer in the Office of News and Publications at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.

Robin Meadows (’87) B.A., biology, Reed College; M.S., biology, UC San Diego; internship: UC Davis Aquaculture and Fisheries Program; first and only job: freelance; credits include Audubon, California Agriculture, Conservation Magazine, Environmental Health Perspectives, Muse, Nature, and ZooGoer; clients include the UC Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources; past clients include the Society for Conservation Biology and the UC Toxic Substances Research and Teaching Program.
    WEB SITE: http://nasw.org/users/rmeadows

Rosie Mestel (’91) B.A., genetics, Queen Mary College, University of London; Ph.D., genetics, UC Davis; internship: The Dallas Morning News. First job: reporter, Discover; second job: a west coast correspondent for New Scientist and freelancing. Currently deputy health editor for the Los Angeles Times.

Greg Miller (’01) B.S., zoology, Duke University; Ph.D., neuroscience, Stanford University; internship: New Scientist, London; first job, editor of ScienceNOW and writer at Science; current job: staff writer at Science, based in San Francisco.

Katharine Miller (’01) B.A., archeology, Harvard University; J.D. Stanford University; internship: Sage KE (Science magazine's website on the science of aging); first job: freelancing. Clients included the Exploratorium magazine, Lucille Packard Children's Foundation magazine, and the Zea Mays Data Base (ZMDB) project. Current job: managing editor, Biomedical Computation Review magazine at Stanford.

Mary K. Miller (’90) B.A., biology, UC Santa Cruz; internship: ZooGoer (National Zoo); first job: science writer for The Exploratorium in San Francisco. Currently writer/producer for Live@Exploratorium, part-time freelancer, and lecturer in the Science Communication Program (web media). Coauthor of Watching Weather (Henry Holt) and contributor to A Field Guide for Science Writers (NASW) and two Discovery/Insight Guides, “Dinosaur Digs,” and “Scuba Diving in North America and the Caribbean.” Published in Natural History, New Scientist, Smithsonian, Popular Science, California Wild, The Sciences, and on numerous websites. Past president of the Northern California Science Writers Association.

Cynthia Mills (’93) B.A., economics; M.A., zoology; D.V.M., all at UC Davis; internships: in multimedia and UC San Francisco Treatment Research Group; assistant editor for Pacific Discovery (later California Wild), San Francisco. Freelancing in the Pacific Northwest, but hasn't quit her day job as an emergency room veterinarian. Her essay "Breeding Discontent," originally published in The Sciences, is collected in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2001, ed. Edward O. Wilson.

Daniela Minerva (’84) B.A., philosophy, University of Bologna (Fulbright Scholar); internship: Sapere (Italy’s largest popular science magazine, based in Rome); first job: managing editor, Sapere.

Christine Mlot ('84) B.S., bacteriology and French, University of Wisconsin, Madison; internship: Science News; first job: Environment magazine; later jobs: BioScience features editor, Science News life sciences writer, UW-Madison writing instructor, Nature Conservancy magazine contributing editor, freelance writer/editor (Science/ScienceNOW, Natural History, National Wildlife, US Congress Office of Technology Assessment, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, World Resources Institute); currently freelance writer, editor, and writing coach.

Kendall Morgan (’02) B.A., biology, Earlham College; Ph.D., biology, University of Oregon; internships: Idaho National Laboratory and Science News. Jobs: freelance writer for Stanford School of Medicine Strategic Plan, ScienceNOW and Cell Press; science writer for Duke University Medical Center News Office; currently science writer/editor for Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering.

Clara Moskowitz (’07) B.A., astronomy and physics, Wesleyan University; internships: American Museum of Natural History, New York City, and Discover; first job: staff writer at Imaginova, parent company of Space.com and LiveScience.com, in New York.

Elisabeth Nadin (’03) B.S. geology & geological oceanography, University of Rhode Island; M.S. geology, Caltech; internships: Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, Monterey County Herald, EarthScope education & outreach. After finishing her Ph.D. in geology at Caltech, she was a science writer at Caltech's magazine Engineering & Science. Currently senior science writer for Caltech Media Relations.
    WEB SITE: http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~enadin/

Bryn Nelson (’99) B.A., biology, Concordia College, Moorhead, Minn.; Ph.D., microbiology, University of Washington; internship: health and science reporter for the Long Island-based daily Newsday, which led to his first job as a staff writer at Newsday. Currently freelancing from New York.

Jessa Netting (’00) B.S., zoology, UC Davis; M.S., entomology, University of Arizona; internships: Popular Science, National Public Radio's Science Fridy, Scientific American, and Nature. First job: biology reporter, Science News; second job: associate editor, Discover. Currently science and online editor at McGraw-Hill/AccessScience, an encyclopedia of science and technology, in New York.

Regina Nuzzo (’04) B.S., industrial engineering, University of South Florida; Ph.D., statistics, Stanford University; postdoc, music cognition, McGill University. Internship: Idaho National Laboratory. First job: science writer, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.; now freelancing for the Los Angeles Times and elsewhere.
    WEB SITE: http://reginanuzzo.com

Larry O’Hanlon (’93) B.A., earth science, UC Santa Cruz; internship: Davis Enterprise; jobs: science & environment reporter for the Tahoe Daily Tribune; the Santa Cruz Sentinel, The Californian (Salinas, CA), and the Lahontan Valley News; currently a correspondent for Discovery Channel's website and freelance writer for magazines, websites and institutions including National Geographic online, Nature, New Scientist, Astronomy, The Boston Globe, BioMedNet, Technology Review, Science World, the Geological Society of America, the Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology and the American Geophysical Union. Founding member of the New Mexico Science Writers Association.
    WEB SITE: http://www.larryo.net

Anne Oplinger (’85) B.A., biology and English literature, Hamilton College; internships: Friends of the Earth, National Wildlife Federation; first job: writer, National Institutes of General Medical Sciences (National Institutes of Health); second job: science writer, news office, University of Virginia - part time while completing a Ph.D. in medical ethics.

Becky Oskin (’00) B.S., geology, Washington State University, M.S., geology, Caltech; internships: Discovery Online News, Idaho National Laboratory. First job: city-science-medical reporter, Pasadena Star-News. Second job: public relations specialist, Duke University Medical Center. Third job: health and science editor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Now freelancing from North Carolina.
   WEB SITE: http://www.nasw.org/users/boskin

Lynn Meyerson Parker (’82) B.A., computer science and American studies, UC Santa Cruz; internships: San Jose Mercury News, KUSP public radio; first job: Ashland (OR) Daily Tidings; second job: Register-Pajaronian (Watsonville, CA); third job: Regis McKenna Public Relations, Palo Alto, CA; since 1994, owner of integrated branding consulting firm with 12 employees in Seattle. Co-author of Integrated Branding: Becoming Brand-Driven through Companywide Action (1998 Quorum Books; 2002 Kogan-Page (paperback)) and Brand Driven: The Route to Integrated Branding through Great Leadership (2003 Kogan-Page). Winner of Mayor's Small Business Award, 2005, Seattle Office of Economic Development. Past winner of Puget Sound Business Journal 40 under 40 award.

Noreen Parks (’90) B.A., social studies education, and M.S., history, University of Illinois; B.A., biology, UC Santa Cruz; first job: project coordinator/manuscript editor for the award-winning Atlas of Hawaii; second job: public information officer, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute; third job: communications coordinator, Marine Conservation Biology Institute; currently freelancing from Port Townsend, Washington, for ScienceNOW, BioScience, and other publications.

Robert Pollie (’82) B.A., biology, UC Santa Cruz; internship: Science News, “Report on Science” (AAAS syndicated radio program); longtime job: freelance speechwriter for Silicon Valley executives. Currently producing and reporting news and feature reports on science for public radio; based in Santa Cruz.

Hugh Powell ('05) B.A., biology, Huntingdon College; M.S., avian ecology, University of Montana, Missoula; internship and first job: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Spent time freelancing, including expanding the blogosphere at The Gist and his own website, surf.bird.scribble. In winter 2007 he camped out with penguins and wrote about the International Polar Year. Current job: science writer at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Kendall Powell (’02) B.S., biology, College of William and Mary, M.S., biomedical sciences, UC San Diego; internship: Nature and its "Science Update" website. First and current job: freelance science journalist in Colorado covering biomedical and environmental science and research culture for Nature, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Medicine, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Public Library of Science, and Journal of Cell Biology.

Solana Pyne (’01) B.S., biology, and B.A., literature/creative writing, UC San Diego; internships (sequential): Newsday, Discover, The Village Voice; first job: freelancing from New York City; clients included The Village Voice, Science, and Newsday; next job: reporter for the Cambodia Daily, based in Phnom Penh, covering environmental issues in Cambodia; next job: reporter for NY1 News television in New York; current job: associate producer on NOVA documentaries for WGBH-TV, Boston.

Sarah Rabkin (’85) A.B., biology, Harvard University; internship: Science '84; first job after program: lecturer in writing and journalism, UC Santa Cruz, plus freelance writing and editing for Health and Hippocrates magazines, the San Jose Mercury News, the Edell Health Letter, etc.; most recent job: lecturer in environmental studies, UC Santa Cruz, and freelance writing coach (Juniper Editing); all along, freelance instructor for the Yosemite Association and other field stations and outdoor education schools.

Kate Ramsayer ('03) B.A. biology, Williams College; internships: Stanford University Medical Center, Science News; first job: environment and business reporter, The Daily Astorian (Ore.); current job: environment reporter, The Bend (Ore.) Bulletin.

Julie Rehmeyer ('06) B.S., mathematics, Wellesley College; M.S., mathematics, MIT; internships at New Scientist, California (UC Berkeley alumni magazine), and Science News. Freelance writer for Science News, Science, Technology Review, New Scientist, and others; math columnist for Science News.

Czerne M. Reid ('04) B.Sc., chemistry, University of the West Indies; M.Sc., Ph.D. environmental chemistry, Emory University; Kaiser Health Reporting internship at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; first job: reporter at The (Columbia, SC) State newspaper; current job: 2007 Kaiser Media Fellow and reporter at The State.

Camille Mojica Rey (’97) B.A., biology, University of Texas, Austin; Ph.D., integrative biology, UC Berkeley; internship: San Jose Mercury News; first job: health and science writer, Monterey County Herald; second job: health editor for Latina magazine, New York; third job: staff writer, San Jose Mercury News; fourth job: public information officer, UC San Francisco. Currently working on first novel, freelancing for print and online publications, and consulting on science-themed media relations from Saratoga, CA.

Aditi Risbud ('06) B.S., materials science and engineering, UC Davis; Ph.D., materials science, UC Santa Barbara. Internship: Stanford Medical Center; currently science communications and public relations executive for Weber Shandwick in Chicago.

Mary-Russell Roberson (’88) B.A., geology, Carleton College; internship and first job: ZooGoer magazine; second job; North Carolina Alternative Energy Corporation; third and current job: freelancing, with an interlude of part-time work at the Museum of Life and Science. Current and past projects include writing exhibit labels and magazine articles; developing earth science curriculum materials and science museum programming; and co-authoring Exploring the Geology of the Carolinas: A Field Guide to Favorite Places from Chimney Rock to Charleston (UNC Press, 2007).

Barbra A. Rodriguez (’96), B.A., biology and education, University of Missouri-Columbia; M.S., cell and molecular biology, Washington University, St. Louis; internships: The Dallas Morning News and The Kansas City Star; first job: medical writer, Washington University; second job: communications director for the university's cancer center; first job in Austin: director, publications & media relations, natural sciences college at The University of Texas at Austin; current job: media relations representative at UT Austin's engineering school. Recent freelance articles have appeared in AARP's Hispanic magazine, Segunda Juventud, including a 2006 article that won a National Mature Media Award and a National Health Information Award. A second-degree black belt in Seidokan Aikido, she teaches the Japanese self-defense art and is a certified practitioner of a holistic health approach called Touch for Health.

Joe Rojas-Burke (’90) B.A., biology, Columbia University; internship: Newsday (Long Island, NY); first job: news editor, Journal of Nuclear Medicine; second job: medical reporter, Eugene (Ore.) Register-Guard; third and current job: healthcare industry reporter, The Oregonian (Portland, OR).

Emily Saarman ('06) B.S., aquatic biology, Brown University; internships: Santa Cruz Sentinel, Discover; first and current job: science writer and policy coordinator for the Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans (PISCO) in Santa Cruz.

Kristin (Cobb) Sainani (’02) B.A., biology and philosophy, Dartmouth; M.S., statistics, Stanford University; Ph.D., epidemiology, Stanford; internship: Science News. Current job: clinical assistant professor at Stanford (writing, statistics); freelance writer: Biomedical Computation Review; and monthly health column for Allure magazine.

Megha Satyanarayana ('07) B.S., biology, Tufts University; Ph.D., molecular biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center; first internship: health reporter for the Charlotte Observer (North Carolina); second internship: year-long health reporting fellowship through the Kaiser Family Foundation at the Biloxi Sun Herald (Mississippi); first job: health reporter, Detroit Free Press.

Mark Schrope (’99) B.S., biology, Wake Forest University; M.S., oceanography, Florida State University; internships: Popular Science and New Scientist; first job: freelance writer for Nature, New Scientist, Discovery.com and others. Next job: working as the science writer for the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution in Ft. Pierce, Florida. Currently freelance for Popular Science, Nature, Outside, and others.
    WEB SITE: http://www.markschrope.com

Karen F. Schmidt (’91) B.S., chemistry, San José State University; internships: U.S. News and World Report, Science News. First job: chemistry reporter for Science News. Wrote freelance for Science, Earth, National Wildlife and others. Taught environmental journalism as a Fulbright Scholar, Romania (2000-01). Currently writes freelance from California for U.S. News and World Report, New Scientist, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and others. Also produces podcasts for the San Francisco Exploratorium.

Desiree Scorcia (’02) B.S., physics, Boston College; first internship: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center; second internship: American Physical Society; first job: the Boothbay Register, business, education, science, and waterfront beat; second job: science editor for Kaplan Test Prep in NYC; currently: stay-at-home mom and freelance science curriculum writer and editor.

Caroline Seydel (’00) B.S., genetic engineering, Cedar Crest College (Allentown, Pa.); M.S., genetics, Stanford University; internship: Popular Science; first & current job: freelancing, based in Redondo Beach, CA. Clients include ScienceNOW, Popular Science, New Scientist, and Mercury magazine.

Chandra Shekhar ('06) B. Tech., electronics, REC Calicut, India; M.E., computer science, IISc, Bangalore; Ph.D. computer vision, University of Southern California; internship: The Scientist. Currently freelancing for The Scientist, Los Angeles Times, Cell Chemistry & Biology, and other publications from Princeton, N.J.
   WEB SITE: http://www.ScienceAndProse.com

Ben Shouse (’01) B.A., biology, Brown University; M.S., ecology UC Davis; internship: Science magazine's European news office; internship: The Nation; freelancer for Science, The Scientist, and Santa Cruz Sentinel; first job: environmental reporter, Sioux Fall Argus Leader in South Dakota, where he earned a special citation in the first annual Risser Prize competition (2005) for environmental journalism. Current job: science and environmental policy analyst for the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) in Washington, D.C.

Emily Singer ('03) B.A., biology, UC Santa Cruz; M.A., neuroscience, UCSD; internship: Los Angeles Times, New Scientist. First job: freelancing for the Los Angeles Times, New Scientist, and Nature. Current job: biotechnology and life sciences editor at Technology Review, Cambridge, MA.

Douglas Smith (’82) B.S., chemistry, Waynesburg College; first job: writer and editor for a small chemical engineering firm in North Hollywood, CA; second job: writer, Engineering & Science, Caltech's research magazine. Currently editor of Engineering & Science.

Emily Sohn (’00) B.A., environmental and evolutionary biology, Dartmouth College; internships: The Dallas Morning News and U.S. News and World Report; first job: Classroom Connect Quest Channel -- an interactive, educational adventure, webcast live twice a year to classrooms around the world. Assignments included AmazonQuest to Peru; GreeceQuest to Turkey and Greece; and ColumbusQuest to Cuba and the Bahamas. Current job: freelancing, based in Minneapolis, writing books for kids and articles for Science News for Kids, The Los Angeles Times, Science News, Health, Smithsonian, Outside, New Scientist, Backpacker, and others.
   WEB SITE: http://www.tidepoolsinc.com

Rosanne Spector (’90) B.S., government, Oberlin College; M.S., plant pathology, UC Berkeley; internship: Time (Washington D.C.) as a AAAS Mass Media Fellow; first job: reporter, Peninsula Times Tribune (Palo Alto, CA); second job: reporter, Valley Times (Pleasanton, CA); currently editor of Stanford Medicine Magazine and freelance writer for Muse magazine.

Aparna Sreenivasan (’01) B.S., microbiology and molecular genetics, UCLA; Ph.D., molecular cellular and developmental biology, UC Santa Cruz; postdoctoral fellow, microbiology and immunology, UC San Francisco; first job: scientific analyst at the law firm Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann and Bernstein in San Francisco; current job: adjunct professor at California State University, Monterey Bay, freelance writer for the San Francisco Chronicle book reviews and other publications, and freelance editor for Riverside Publishing.

Tim Stephens (’90) B.A., botany, UC Santa Barbara; M.S., plant pathology, Cornell University; internship and first job: Journal of NIH Research, Washington, D.C.; second job: writer and editor of medical publications at Miller Freeman, Inc., San Francisco; currently science writer in the UC Santa Cruz Public Information Office.

Erik Stokstad (’96) B.A., geology, Carleton College; M.S., geology, UC Riverside; first internship: New Scientist, London; second internship, Science, Washington D.C.; first job, editor of ScienceNOW, the online news service of Science magazine; current job: managing editor of ScienceNOW and staff writer for Science.

Richard Stone (’91) B.S., biology, Cornell University; first internship: Washington Post; second internship, Science; first job: Science; currently Asia News Editor for Science, based in Beijing, China. Author of Mammoth: The Resurrection of an Ice Age Giant (Perseus, 2001). He won the 2003 American Institute of Biological Sciences award for an article in Science on a fatal disease spreading in Siberia.

Evelyn Strauss (’98) B.S., chemistry, UC Berkeley; Ph.D., biochemistry, UC San Francisco; internship: Science News; jobs: freelance writer, Scientific American, Health, WebMD, Stanford Medicine, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Pew Biomedical Scholars Program, American Society for Microbiology, Salon.com; contributing correspondent, Science; Senior News Editor, Science of Aging Knowledge Environment; freelance writer, Lasker Foundation. Currently executive director of Scientists Without Borders and lecturer (essays and profiles) in the Science Communication Program.

Nicole Stricker (’03) B.A., biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder; Ph.D., neuroscience, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine; AAAS Mass Media Fellowship: Dallas Morning News; internship: Idaho National Laboratory; first job: education reporter, Idaho Falls Post Register; second job: science and medicine reporter, Idaho Falls Post Register; third job: education reporter, Salt Lake City Tribune; current job, science writer, Idaho National Laboratory.

Lisa Strong-Aufhauser (’93) B.A. environmental biology/environmental studies, UC Santa Barbara; internship: ZooGoer; first job: freelance writer/ photographer; current job: writer/producer, Strong Mountain Productions, producing nature, science and history videos for museum exhibits, multimedia and the Web; media lab coordinator for the Science Communication Program.
    WEB SITE: http://www.strongmountain.com

Leslie Sweeney (’84) B.A., geology, Mount Holyoke College; internship: UC Santa Cruz campus publications; freelancing ever since, mixed with part-time writing, editing and Web jobs on and off the UCSC campus, most recently for a Watsonville organic produce and baked-goods company.

Laura Tangley (’83) B.A., politics, University of Virginia; internship: Science News; editor, Science Notes, Science Communication Program; first job: features editor, BioScience (WDC); MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellow; wrote two books on tropical forests (for Chelsea House and Beacon Press); second job: associate editor, Earthwatch magazine, Boston area; third job: senior writer, Conservation International (WDC); fourth job: senior editor, U.S. News and World Report; current job: senior editor, National Wildlife.

Erik Vance ('06) B.S., biology, Principia College; internships: California magazine (UC Berkeley) and The Chronicle of Higher Education; currently freelancing. Clients include Nature, Wired.com, Mental Floss, California, San Francisco Magazine, and the UC Energy Institute, where he writes the biannual newsletter.

Christopher Vaughan (’87) B.A., biophysics, UC Berkeley; first internship: BioScience; second internship: National Institute of Mental Health (NIH); third internship, Science News. First job: general sciences editor (temporary), Science News; second job: West Coast correspondent for New Scientist; third job: editor, Cambridge University Press, based at Stanford University; currently writing books: How Life Begins: The Science of Life in the Womb (Times Books, 1995); The Promise of Sleep, with William Dement (Delacorte Press, 1999); The Gift of Health: How the Environment in the Womb Can Affect Lifelong Health, with Peter Nathanielsz (Harper/Collins, 2001). He won a 2002 Grand Gold Award for "Best Alumni Magazine Article" for a profile of baboon researcher Robert Sapolsky.

Gretchen Vogel (’96) B.S., biochemistry, Iowa State University; internship: Science (Washington, D.C.); first job: staff writer at Science; currently European correspondent for Science, based in Berlin, Germany.

Cameron Walker (’02) B.S., bioresource sciences, UC Berkeley; internships: Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch Program and California Wild, the former magazine of the California Academy of Sciences; current job: freelancing for National Geographic News, Outside and Skiing.
    WEB SITE: http://www.cameronwalker.net

Bonnie Wallace (’95) B.S., literature, Caltech; first job: senior exhibit writer/editor for the California Science Center, Los Angeles. Exhibits written: Creative World (1998), Magic: The Science of Illusion (2000), and Air and Space Gallery (2002); currently a freelance exhibit writer in St. Louis.

Nik Walter (’94) Dipl. (M.S.), zoology, Ph.D., molecular biology, University of Zurich, Switzerland; internship: Exploratorium, San Francisco; freelance science writer for German and Swiss newspapers and magazines; first job: science writer for SonntagsZeitung (Zurich, Switzerland); current job, science and technology editor for SonntagsZeitung.

Tracy Washburn (’97) B.A., biology, Indiana University at South Bend; Ph.D., biology, University of Notre Dame; postdoctoral fellowships, The Salk Institute and UC Berkeley; internship: Archipelago Productions (educational multimedia); first job: content director for biology distance learning courses at Archipelago Productions; second job: content director for Sumanas, Inc., a similar company in Pasadena.

Karen Watson (’84) B.A., biology, UC San Diego; M.A.T., Johns Hopkins University; internship and first job: Alameda Times-Star; second job: science writer, UC Davis public information office; third job: director of news and research communications, UC Davis; fourth job: executive science producer/editor for Discovery Channel Online; fifth job: interactive executive producer at Discovery.com; sixth job: new media project development officer for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in Washington, D.C.; seventh job: inner-city high school science teacher, Baltimore; independent writer.

Traci Watson (’92) B.A., biology and English, Amherst College; internships: Nature and Science; first job: science writer, U.S. News & World Report; current job, NASA and environmental reporter, USA Today.

Peter Weiss (’90) B.S., electrical engineering, San José State University; internship: Science News; first job: Valley Times (Pleasanton, CA); second job: physics and technology writer, Science News; currently public information manager for the American Geophysical Union (Washington, DC). Honors: 1996 California Newspapers Publishers Award for Writing (10,000 -75,000 circulation, 2nd place), 2000 American Astronomical Association Award for Popular Writing on Solar Physics.

Megan Mansell Williams ('04) B.S., marine biology, UC Santa Cruz; internships at ScienceNOW, California Wild, and Discover; freelance writer in New York and San Francisco. Currently assistant editor for Forefront, the magazine of the UC Berkeley College of Engineering, and continuing freelancer for publications including Discover, MAKE, CRAFT, VIA, and others. Also still getting feet wet, literally, participating in a coastal biodiversity survey with researchers at UC Santa Cruz.

Sarah Williams ('07) B.A., biology, Johns Hopkins University; first internship: Yale University School of Medicine; second internship: Science News; first job: assistant editor at the HHMI Bulletin, the quarterly magazine of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Shawna Williams ('03) B.A., biochemistry, Colorado College. First internship: information officer, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva; second internship: Stanford University Medical Center; first job: public affairs officer at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research at Cornell University; current job: science writer/managing editor at the Genetics and Public Policy Center at Johns Hopkins University.

Elizabeth Wilson (’92) B.S., physics, B.A., chemistry, UC Santa Barbara; internship: Alameda news group; first job: science writer, Pasadena Star-News; second job: associate editor, West Coast, Chemical & Engineering News; current job: senior editor, West Coast, Chemical & Engineering News.

Debra Wirkman (’91) B.A., chemistry, UC Santa Cruz; internship: Sea Studios, a natural history video production company in Monterey, CA; first job: science writer at Sea Studios; second job: content director of general chemistry distance learning course (college-level, CD-ROM/Web-based) for Archipelago Productions/Harcourt e-Learning, also in Monterey. Currently recuperating from a series of surgeries and contemplating my next career move (freelance journalist? distance education content developer? wine chemist?) while sampling digital media courses at the local community college.

Alexandra Witze (’93) B.S., geology, MIT; internship: The Dallas Morning News; first job: freelance writer; second job: associate editor at Earth (now defunct); second job, science writer for The Dallas Morning News; current job: senior news and features editor at Nature (Washington, D.C.) Co-winner of the National Association of Science Writers' 2004 Science-in-Society award; winner of the 2000 Walter Sullivan Award for Excellence in Science Writing--Features from the American Geophysical Union.

Kathleen Wong (’99) B.A., biology and English/American literature, UC Santa Cruz; internship: U.S. News and World Report; first job: science reporter, Monterey County Herald, second job: senior editor, California Wild, the former natural history magazine of the California Academy of Sciences; now freelancing from the SF Bay Area.

Marcus Woo (’07) B.A., physics, Cornell University; M.S., astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park; AAAS Mass Media Fellowship, WOSU-AM, Columbus, Ohio; internship and first job: writer for Engineering & Science, Caltech's quarterly research magazine.

Heather Rock Woods (’94) B.A., biology, UC Berkeley; internship: The Oakland Tribune; first job: reporter for an Oakland Tribune sister paper; second job: reporter at The Palo Alto Weekly; third job: science writer at Stanford Medical Center News Bureau; fourth job: science writer at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center; currently freelancing in the SF Bay Area.

Mike Wooldridge (’92) B.A., genetics, UC Berkeley; internship: Discover; first job: science writer, Lawrence Berkeley Lab; current day job: Web developer at a domain name registration company; current night job: computer book author (has written twelve books on Web and imaging software). In the mid-90s, served as editor of the Black Rock Gazette, the daily newspaper of Burning Man.

Christopher Woolston (’95) B.S., fisheries and wildlife, Montana State University; M.S., biology, Montana State University; internship: Billings Gazette; first job: medical science writer, Washington University School of Medicine; second job: staff writer, Hippocrates; currently living in Montana, working as a contributing editor for Consumer Health Interactive and a freelance writer for Prevention, Via, babycenter.com, health.com, and other outlets. He writes The Healthy Skeptic, a biweekly column for The Los Angeles Times. He co-wrote the book Generation Extra Large: Rescuing Our Children From the Epidemic of Obesity (Basic Books, 2005).

Shawne Workman (’04) B.S., human biology, Stanford University; M.S., neurobiology and behavior, UC Irvine; first internship: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and freelance pieces for Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences and Lucille Packard Children's Hospital; currently combining technical and freelance science writing in Sunnyvale, CA.

Corinna Wu (’95) B.A., chemistry, Swarthmore College; M.S., materials science and engineering, Stanford University; internship: Science News; first job: reporter/researcher at U.S. News and World Report; second job: chemistry and materials science writer at Science News; third job: producer for AAAS’s radio program Science Update; 2005-06 Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT; current job: freelance writer/radio producer in Oakland, CA, and contributing editor at Prism magazine.

George Wuerthner (’85) B.A., environmental studies, Montana State University; M.S., range management, University of Montana; now writing books on the wilderness areas of the United States and freelancing as a nature photographer based in Eugene, Ore. George works full time as a freelance writer, photographer, natural history guide, field ecology instructor, photo workshop instructor and biological consultant. He is the author of 25 published books, primarily natural history guides, plus hundreds of articles. Recent books include: Yosemite--the Grace and the Grandeur and Oregon Wilderness Areas. He also helped to edit with wife Mollie Matteson, Welfare Ranching--the Subsidized Destruction of the American West (Island Press, 2002). Working with other biologists, he completed a two-year study to identify biological hot spots in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem in 2001.

Catherine Zandonella (’00) B.S., pharmacology, UC Santa Barbara; M.P.H., environmental health, UC Berkeley; internship: New Scientist (San Francisco bureau); Newsday (Long Island, New York); first job: UC Berkeley news office; second job: staff writer (contributing correspondent) for New Scientist. Currently freelancing from Princeton, NJ for New Scientist, Nature, the New York Academy of Sciences, and the International Aids Vaccine Initiative (IAVI).