Appendix IV
Communication Awards Selection Committees and Winners by Year
2016–2018 National Academies Communication Awards Selection Committee
May Berenbaum (Committee Chair, NAS)
Professor and head, department of entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Alan Boyle
Science editor
David K. Campbell
Professor of physics, electrical and computer engineering, and materials science and engineering, Boston University
Cornelia Dean
Science writer, The New York Times; writer-in-residence, Brown University
Baruch Fischhoff (NAS/NAM)
Howard Heinz University Professor, department of engineering and public policy, Institute for Politics and Strategy, Carnegie Mellon University
Laura Helmuth
Health, science, and environmental editor, The Washington Post
John H. Linehan (NAE)
Professor of biomedical engineering, Northwestern University
Charles C. Mann
Author; contributing correspondent, Science; contributing editor, The Atlantic
Joe Palca
Science correspondent, NPR
Nancy Shute
Editor-in-Chief, Science News
Dan Vergano
Science reporter, BuzzFeed News
2018 National Academies Communication Awards Winners
Selected from 364 entries for work published or aired in 2017, the recipients of the 2018 awards were:
Book Winner
Dan Egan for The Death and Life of the Great Lakes (W.W. Norton & Co.) “An environmental, historical, and economic analysis, thoroughly researched and compellingly told, of America’s Great Lakes and the unintended consequences of short-sighted management decisions.”
Film/Radio/TV Winner
Emer Reynolds, John Murray, and Clare Stronge of Crossing the Line Productions and Sean B. Carroll and John Rubin of HHMI Tangled Bank Studios for “The Farthest—Voyager in Space”
“A fascinating and visually arresting telling of the story of NASA’s decades-long Voyager mission, showcasing the accounts of project participants in their own words and conveying the challenges of engineering problem-solving and the importance of teamwork in the discovery process.”
Newspaper/Magazine Winner
Ann Gibbons, Emily Underwood, Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, John Bohannon, and deputy news editor Elizabeth Culotta of Science magazine
for a package of articles on human migration: “Busting Myths of Origin,” “The Pain of Exile,” “Battling Bias,” and “Restless Minds”
“A multidisciplinary and multidimensional examination of human migration, past and present, that is timely, cogent, and rich in stories that connect to the science in unexpected and thought-provoking ways.”
Online Winner
Nina Martin, Adriana Gallardo, and Annie Waldman of ProPublica and Renee Montagne of NPR for “Lost Mothers”
“A powerful series that illuminates the disproportionate incidence of maternal deaths in America, a shamefully neglected area of medicine, with scrupulous documentation and solid, heartbreaking storytelling.”
2017 National Academies Communication Awards Winners
Selected from 290 entries for works published or aired in 2016, the recipients of the 2017 awards were:
Book Winner
Margot Lee Shetterly for Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race (William Morrow/HarperCollins Publishers)
“A hitherto little-known episode in the history of pioneering aerospace engineering and computing brought to light so engagingly that, along with the blockbuster movie it inspired, has had an unprecedented impact on the American public.”
Film/Radio/TV Winner
William Brangham, Jason Kane, and the team at PBS NewsHour with Jon Cohen at Science magazine for “The End of AIDS?,” produced in collaboration with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
“A compelling series that challenges long-held assumptions about the status of AIDS, with eye-opening reporting from six very different communities around the world.”
Newspaper/Magazine Winner
The Chicago Tribune’s Sam Roe, Karisa King, and Ray Long for the three-part series “Dangerous Doses”
“A masterful melding of data-mining, scientific exposition, and investigative journalism to expose a critical public health issue.”
Online Winner
FiveThirtyEight’s Maggie Koerth-Baker, Ben Casselman, Anna Maria Barry-Jester, and Carl Bialik for “Gun Deaths in America”
“A balanced and fact-filled examination of an unfolding crisis, with compelling interactives that are meticulously attentive to data quality and statistics.”
2016 National Academies Communication Awards Winners
Selected from 374 entries for works published or aired in 2015, the recipients of the 2016 awards were:
Book Winner
Deborah Cramer for The Narrow Edge: A Tiny Bird, an Ancient Crab, and an Epic Journey, a beautifully written natural history of an imperiled bird that embeds evolutionary biology and systematics, marine ecology, physiology, natural history, paleontology, cultural history, and immunology in an absorbing, personal narrative.
Film/Radio/TV Winner
NPR’s Christopher Joyce and Alison Richards, with Bill McQuay of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, for the seven-part series “Close Listening: Decoding Nature Through Sound,” a powerful showcase for radio and for studying sound to understand nature.
Newspaper/Magazine Winner
David Ferry and Mother Jones for “The Fever: How the Government Put Tens of Thousands of People at Risk of a Deadly Disease,” a compelling account of a medical mystery and social injustice.
Online Winner
ProPublica’s Abrahm Lustgarten, Naveena Sadasivam, Al Shaw, and David Sleight for the six-part series “Killing the Colorado,” an outstanding interactive review of how decades of avarice, ignorance, and indifference led to an environmental disaster.
2015 National Academies Communication Awards Selection Committee
May Berenbaum (Committee Chair, NAS)
Professor and head, department of entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Alan Boyle
Science editor, NBC News Digital
David K. Campbell
Professor of physics, electrical and computer engineering, and materials science and engineering, Boston University
Cornelia Dean
Science writer, The New York Times; writer-in-residence, Brown University
Baruch Fischhoff (NAS, NAM)
Howard Heinz University Professor, department of engineering and public policy, Institute for Politics and Strategy, Carnegie Mellon University
Peggy Girshman
Editor
Laura Helmuth
Science and health editor, Slate
Mark Johnson
Health and science reporter, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
John H. Linehan (NAE)
Professor of biomedical engineering, Northwestern University
Charles C. Mann
Author; contributing correspondent, Science; contributing editor, The Atlantic
Nancy Shute
Editor and blogger, NPR
2015 National Academies Communication Awards Winners
Selected from 344 entries for works published or aired in 2014, the recipients of the 2015 awards were:
Book Winner
Mark Miodownik for Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World, a fascinating account of the extraordinary nature of the seemingly ordinary materials of modern-day life.
Film/Radio/TV Winner (for the first time, two recipients were selected in this category)
David Kaplan and Mark Levinson for “Particle Fever,” an engrossing, minute-by-minute diary of the roller-coaster nature of scientific discovery.
Michael Rosenfeld, David Dugan, and Neil Shubin for “Your Inner Fish” (HHMI/Tangled Bank Studios), an enthralling examination of the ancient animal ancestry in the fossil record and in our own bodies.
Newspaper/Magazine Winner
Karen Bouffard, The Detroit News, for the series “Detroit Is the Deadliest City for Children,” a devastating portrayal of the complex factors underlying a city’s public health emergency.
Online Winner
The Reuters Team for the series “Water’s Edge: The Crisis of Rising Sea Levels,” a comprehensive investigation of a slow-motion environmental crisis with imaginative data visualization and interactive tools.
2014 National Academies Communication Awards Selection Committee
May Berenbaum (Committee Chair, NAS)
Professor and head, department of entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Alan Boyle
Science editor, NBC News Digital
David K. Campbell
Professor of physics and electrical and computer engineering, Boston University
Cornelia Dean
Science writer, The New York Times; and writer-in-residence, Brown University
Peggy Girshman
Executive editor, Kaiser Health News
Mark Johnson
Health and science reporter, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Laura Helmuth
Science and health editor, Slate
John H. Linehan (NAE)
Professor of biomedical engineering, Northwestern University
Charles C. Mann
Author; contributing correspondent, Science; contributing editor, The Atlantic
Gregory A. Petsko (NAS/IOM)
Arthur J. Mahon Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience, Weill Cornell Medical College
Nancy Shute
Editor and blogger, NPR
2014 National Academies Communication Awards Winners
Selected from 335 entries for works published or aired in 2013, the recipients of the 2014 awards were:
Book Winner
Dan Fagin for Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation, for its masterful portrayal of the scientific process at work in a town facing environmental crisis.
Film/Radio/TV Winner
Rob Stein and NPR for the six-part radio series “Staying Healthy May Mean Learning to Love Our Microbes,” an enlightening exploration of the multifaceted dimensions of the human microbiome.
Newspaper/Magazine Winner
Dennis Overbye, The New York Times, for “Chasing the Higgs,” for capturing the excitement of the scientific hunt for the Higgs boson.
Online Winner
Craig Welch, reporter, and Steve Ringman, photographer, at The Seattle Times for the series “Sea Change: The Pacific’s Perilous Turn,” a stunning multimedia investigation of the consequences of worldwide ocean acidification.
2013 National Academies Communication Awards Selection Committee
May Berenbaum (Committee Chair, NAS)
Professor and head, department of entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Pablo J. Boczkowski
Professor and director, Program in Media, Technology and Society, Northwestern University
Alan Boyle
Science editor, NBC News Digital
David K. Campbell
Professor of physics, electrical and computer engineering, and materials science and engineering, Boston University
Cornelia Dean
Science writer, The New York Times; writer-in-residence, Brown University
Peggy Girshman
Executive editor, Kaiser Health News
Mark Johnson
Health and science reporter, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
John H. Linehan (NAE)
Professor of biomedical engineering, Northwestern University
Charles C. Mann
Author; contributing correspondent, Science; contributing editor, The Atlantic
Gregory A. Petsko (NAS/IOM)
Arthur J. Mahon Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience, Weill Cornell Medical College
Nancy Shute
Freelance
2013 National Academies Communication Awards Winners
Selected from 291 entries for works published or aired in 2012, the recipients of the 2013 awards were:
Book Winner
David George Haskell for The Forest Unseen (Viking Penguin), for his exquisite portrait of nature’s universe, drawn from one tiny patch of forest.
Film/Radio/TV Winner
Joanne Silberner, David Baron, and Public Radio International’s “The World” for “Cancer’s Lonely Soldier,” “Pink Ribbons to Haiti,” “An Ounce of Prevention,” and “The Infectious Connection” for shining a light on the hidden toll cancer takes in impoverished nations, killing more people than HIV, malaria, and tuberculosis combined.
Newspaper/Magazine Winner
Eliot Marshal, Elizabeth Culotta, Ann Gibbons, and Greg Miller at Science magazine for their stories “Parsing Terrorism,” “Roots of Racism,” “The Ultimate Sacrifice,” and “Drone Wars,” for an articulate, wide-ranging examination of what social scientists have learned about human violence, conflict, and terrorism.
Online Winner
Alison Young, Peter Eisler (reporters), John Hillkirk (content editor), and the entire team at USA Today for the series “Ghost Factories” for a nationwide investigation of abandoned lead factories that armed reporters and citizens with the knowledge and technology to recognize threats in their own backyards.
2012 National Academies Communication Awards Selection Committee
Barbara A. Schaal (Committee Chair, NAS)
NAS Vice President; Mary-Dell Chilton distinguished professor, department of biology, Washington University
Jad Abumrad
Host, RadioLab, WNYC Radio
Pablo J. Boczkowski
Professor and director, Program in Media, Technology and Society, Northwestern University
Alan Boyle
Blogger, CosmicLog; Science editor, MSNBC
David K. Campbell
Professor of physics and electrical engineering, Boston University
Cornelia Dean
Science writer, The New York Times; writer-in-residence, Brown University
John H. Linehan (NAE)
Professor of biomedical engineering, Northwestern University
Charles C. Mann
Author and contributing correspondent, Science
Joe Palca
Correspondent, NPR
Gregory A. Petsko (NAS/IOM)
Arthur J. Mahon Professor of Neurology And Neuroscience, Weill Cornell Medical College
Christine Russell
President, Council for the Advancement of Science Writing; Senior fellow, Harvard Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
2012 National Academies Communication Awards Winners
Selected from 311 entries for works published or aired in 2011, the recipients of the 2012 awards were:
Book Winner
Daniel Kahneman for Thinking, Fast and Slow, an outstanding and accessible book that brings to the public key scientific insights about how we think and make decisions.
Film/Radio/TV Winner
Paula S. Apsell (senior executive producer), Michael Bicks (writer, producer, and director), and Julia Court (senior producer, writer) for “Smartest Machine on Earth” (NOVA), an imaginative television documentary that captures the challenge of programming a computer to mimic the way we think.
Newspaper/Magazine Winner
Crocker Stephenson, Guy Boulton, Mark Johnson, John Schmid, and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel staff for the series “Empty Cradles” (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel), distinguished reporting about medical, cultural, and economic dilemmas in the delivery of health care in Milwaukee.
Online Winner
Daniel Engber for the series “The Mouse Trap: How One Rodent Rules the Lab” (Slate magazine), a clear focus on an unappreciated problem in scientific research: Relying exclusively on laboratory mice can be a big mistake.
2011 National Academies Communication Awards Selection Committee
Barbara A. Schaal (Committee Chair, NAS)
NAS Vice President; Mary-Dell Chilton Distinguished Professor, Department of Biology, Washington University
Jad Abumrad
Host and managing editor, RadioLab, WNYC Radio
Deborah Blum
Freelance writer and professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Pablo J. Boczkowski
Associate professor, Program in Media, Technology and Society, and Department of Communication Studies, Northwestern University
Alan Boyle
Blogger, CosmicLog; Science editor, MSNBC
David K. Campbell
Professor of physics and electrical engineering, Boston University
John Linehan (NAE)
Professor of biomedical engineering, Biomedical Engineering Department, Northwestern University; Consulting professor of bioengineering, Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University
Joe Palca
Science correspondent, NPR News
Gregory A. Petsko (NAS/IOM)
Gyula and Katica Tauber Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry, Brandeis University
Cristine Russell
President, Council for the Advancement of Science Writing; Senior fellow, Harvard Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Dan Vergano
Science and Medical Reporter, USA Today
2011 National Academies Communication Awards Winners
Selected from more than 300 entries for works published or aired in 2010, the recipients of the 2011 awards were:
Book Winner
Rebecca Skloot (author) for The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a compelling and graceful use of narrative that illuminates the human and ethical issues of scientific research and medical advances.
Film/Radio/TV Winner
Alexa Elliott (producer) and the WPBT2 Production Team of South Florida Public Television (WPBT2) for “Changing Seas: Sentinels of the Seas,” a story of what Florida’s bottlenose dolphins tell us about the health of coastal waters and our own exposure to chemical contaminants.
Newspaper/Magazine Winner
Amy Harmon, national correspondent, The New York Times, for “Target: Cancer,” for reporting the promises and realities of clinical drug trials as seen through the eyes of passionate researchers and worried, sometimes desperate patients.
Online Winner
Andrew Revkin, senior fellow for environmental understanding, Pace University, and The New York Times blogger, for “Dot Earth” Blog, for pioneering social media about the issues of climate and sustainability with worldwide readership and impact.
2010 National Academies Communication Awards Selection Committee
Barbara A. Schaal (Committee Chair, NAS)
NAS Vice President; Mary-Dell Chilton Distinguished Professor, Department of Biology, Washington University
Greg Andorfer
Emmy-winning producer for informal science communications for television, IMAX, radio, print, and museums; Former executive director, Maryland Science Center
Deborah Blum
Freelance writer and professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Pablo J. Boczkowski
Associate professor, Program in Media, Technology and Society, and Department of Communication Studies, Northwestern University
David K. Campbell
Professor of physics and electrical engineering and provost, Boston University
Joe Palca
Science correspondent, NPR News
Henry Petroski (NAE)
Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering and Professor of History, Duke University
Gregory A. Petsko (NAS/IOM)
Gyula and Katica Tauber Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry, Brandeis University
Cristine Russell
President, Council for the Advancement of Science Writing; Senior fellow, Harvard Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Dan Vergano
Science and medical reporter, USA Today
Carl Zimmer
Science writer and book author
2010 National Academies Communication Awards Winners
Selected from 228 entries for works published or aired in 2009, the recipients of the 2010 awards were:
Book Winner
Richard Holmes, author, The Age of Wonder, a delightful glimpse at the dawn of the modern age and the links between the worlds of science and literature in the romantic era.
Film/Radio/TV Winner
Carole and Richard Rifkind, co-producer and co-director, for “Naturally Obsessed: The Making of a Scientist,” an insightful and very human portrayal of the excitement and challenges young scientists face in and out of the lab (WNET).
Newspaper/Magazine Winner
Charles Duhigg of The New York Times and his series “Toxic Waters,” for compelling investigative environmental reporting that has had an important policy impact.
Online Winner
Ed Yong and his blog “Not Exactly Rocket Science,” for engaging and jargon-free multimedia storytelling about science in the digital age.
2009 National Academies Communication Awards Selection Committee
Don Kennedy (Committee Chair, NAS/IOM)
Editor-in-chief emeritus, Science; President emeritus and Bing Professor of Environmental Science Emeritus, Institute for International Studies, Stanford University
Barbara A. Schaal (Committee Vice Chair)
NAS Vice President; Mary-Dell Chilton Distinguished Professor, Department of Biology, Washington University
Greg Andorfer
Emmy-winning producer for informal science communications for television, IMAX, radio, print, and museums; Former executive director, Maryland Science Center; Frostburg State University
Pablo J. Boczkowski
Associate professor, Program in Media, Technology and Society, and Department of Communication Studies, Northwestern University
Deborah Blum
Freelance writer and professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Robert W. Lucky (NAE)
Retired corporate vice president, Research, Telcordia Technologies, Inc.
Joe Palca
Science correspondent, NPR
Henry Petroski (NAE)
Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering and Professor of History, Duke University
Gregory A. Petsko (NAS/IOM)
Gyula and Katica Tauber Professor of Biochemistry, Brandeis University; Adjunct professor, Department of Neurology and Center for Neurologic Diseases, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Cristine Russell
President, Council for the Advancement of Science Writing; Senior fellow, Harvard Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Dan Vergano
Science and medical reporter, USA Today
2009 National Academies Communication Awards Winners
Selected from 198 entries for works published or aired in 2008, the recipients of the 2009 awards were:
Book Winner
Neil Shubin for his delightful, intellectually challenging view of evolution from primitive fish to humans by a scientist who finds fossils in the most uncomfortable places and chronicles it all in Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body.
Film/Radio/TV Winner
Larry Adelman (series creator, executive producer), Llewellyn M. Smith (co-executive producer), and Christine Herbes-Sommers (series senior producer) for putting a human face on one of the most complex issues in public health—the impact of racial and socioeconomic inequities in health—in “Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?” (California NewsReel in association with Vital Pictures Inc.)
Newspaper/Magazine Winner
Mark Johnson for his clear reporting on the cutting edge of science, engaging key researchers as they try to open new medical horizons by reprogramming human cells in his series “Targeting the Good Cell” (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel).
Online Winner
Vikki Valentine (digital science editor), Alison Richards (deputy science editor), and Anne Gudenkauf (science editor) for NPR’s “Climate Connections,” a year-long multimedia journey to explain the impacts of global climate change with well-reported stories from around the world.
2008 National Academies Communication Awards Selection Committee
Don Kennedy (Committee Chair, NAS/IOM)
Editor-in-chief, Science, President emeritus and Bing Professor of Environmental Science Emeritus
Institute for International Studies, Stanford University
Greg Andorfer
Emmy-winning producer for informal science communications for television, IMAX, radio, print, and museums; Former executive director, Maryland Science Center
Deborah Blum
Freelance writer and professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communication
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Pablo J. Boczkowski
Associate professor, Program in Media, Technology and Society, and Department of Communication Studies, Northwestern University
Barbara J. Culliton (Past Chair) (IOM)
Contributing editor, Health Affairs
Robert W. Lucky (NAE)
Retired corporate vice president, Research, Telcordia Technologies, Inc.
Joe Palca
Science correspondent, NPR
Henry Petroski (NAE)
Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering and Professor of History, Duke University
Cristine Russell
President, Council for the Advancement of Science Writing; Senior fellow, Harvard Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Dan Vergano
Science and medical reporter, USA Today; Fellow, Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Harvard University
Carl Zimmer
Science writer and book author
2008 National Academies Communication Awards Winners
Selected from 240 entries for works published or aired in 2007, the recipients of the 2008 awards were:
Book Winner
Walter Isaacson for Einstein: His Life and Universe, a comprehensive and scholarly ambitious look at the life and mind of the preeminent scientific figure of the 20th century.
Film/Radio/TV Winner
George Butler (director), White Mountain Films, Kennedy-Marshall Films, and Walt Disney Company for Roving Mars, a spectacular film that chronicles the science and engineering behind the Mars rovers and follows their breathtaking search for water on the red planet.
Newspaper/Magazine Winner
Bob Marshall, Mark Schleifstein, Dan Swenson, and Ted Jackson for “Last Chance: The Fight to Save a Disappearing Coast” (The Times-Picayune, New Orleans), an outstanding newspaper series that combines superb storytelling with the latest science in its call to action to save Louisiana’s wetlands.
Online Winner
Alan Boyle, MSNBC.com science editor, for selected works from Cosmic Log and his pioneering efforts to bring daily coverage of the physical sciences, technological innovation, and space sciences to broad new audiences on a popular news website.
2007 National Academies Communication Awards Selection Committee
Don Kennedy (Committee Chair, NAS/IOM)
Editor-in-chief, Science; President emeritus and Bing Professor of Environmental Science Emeritus, Institute for International Studies, Stanford University
Deborah Blum
Professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin–Madison
David Clark
Producer and director, David Clark Inc.
Barbara J. Culliton (Committee Past Chair, IOM)
Deputy Editor, Health Affairs
Robert W. Lucky (NAE)
Retired corporate vice president, Research, Telcordia Technologies, Inc.
Sherwin B. Nuland
Clinical professor of surgery, Yale School of Medicine
Joe Palca
Science correspondent, NPR
Cristine Russell
Freelance writer; fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Environment and Natural Resources Program, Harvard University
Curt Suplee
Director, Office of Legislative and Public Affairs, National Science Foundation (Retired June 2007)
Dan Vergano
Science and medical reporter, USA Today
2007 National Academies Communication Awards Winners
Selected from 250 entries for works published or aired in 2006, the recipients of the 2007 awards were:
Book Winner
Eric Kandel, for In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of the Mind, a scientist’s personal memoir that skillfully blends an explanation of the science of memory.
Film/Radio/TV Winner
Jad Abumrad, host and producer of Radio Lab’s “Musical Language,” and “Where Am I?,” WNYC, New York Public Radio, for his imaginative use of radio to make science accessible to broad audiences.
Newspaper/Magazine Winner
Carl Zimmer, freelance writer, “Highly Evolved and Exquisitely Thirsty,” “Silent Struggle: A New Theory of Pregnancy,” “This Can’t Be Love,” and “Devious Butterflies, Full-Throated Frogs, and Other Liars,” published in The New York Times; “A Fin Is a Limb Is a Wing,” published in National Geographic; and The Loom, a science blog hosted by Seed magazine, for his diverse and consistently interesting coverage of evolution and unexpected biology.
2006 National Academies Communication Awards Selection Committee
Barbara J. Culliton (Committee Chair, IOM)
Deputy editor, Health Affairs
Don Kennedy (Committee Vice-Chair, NAS/IOM)
Editor-in-chief, Science; President emeritus and Bing Professor of Environmental Science Emeritus,
Institute for International Studies, Stanford University
Deborah Blum
Professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin–Madison
David Clark
Producer and director, David Clark Inc.
Peter Dykstra
Executive producer, CNN Science and Technology
Samuel C. Florman (NAE)
Chairman, Kreisler Borg Florman Construction Company
Lubert Stryer (NAS)
Winzer Professor, Emeritus, Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University School of Medicine
Curt Suplee
Director, Office of Legislative and Public Affairs, National Science Foundation
Abigail Trafford
Author and weekly columnist, The Washington Post
Dan Vergano
Science and medical reporter, USA Today
2006 National Academies Communication Awards Winners
Selected from 252 entries for works published or aired in 2005, the recipients of the 2006 awards were:
Book Winner
Charles Mann for 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, for his engaging and thought-provoking rediscovery of the early human history of our continent.
Radio/TV Winner
Nic Young, director; Anna Thomson, producer; and Bill Locke, executive producer, for The History Channel and Lion Television’s “Ape to Man,” an accurate and entertaining overview of human evolution made accessible to broad audiences.
Newspaper/Magazine Winner
Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, for her authoritative treatment of the science and politics of global climate change in the three-part series “The Climate of Man.”
2005 National Academies Communication Awards Selection Committee
Barbara J. Culliton (Committee Chair, IOM)
Deputy editor, Health Affairs
David Clark
Producer and director, David Clark Inc.
Peter Dykstra
Executive producer, CNN Science and Technology
Samuel C. Florman (NAE)
Chairman, Kreisler Borg Florman Construction Company
Peggy Girshman
Assistant managing editor, NPR
George Strait
Associate vice chancellor, University of California, Berkeley
Lubert Stryer (NAS)
Winzer Professor, Emeritus, Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University School of Medicine
Curt Suplee
Director, Office of Legislative and Public Affairs, National Science Foundation
Abigail Trafford
Author and weekly columnist, The Washington Post; Senior fellow, Civic Ventures
2005 National Academies Communication Awards Winners
Selected from 202 entries for works published or aired in 2004, the recipients of the 2005 awards were:
Book Winner
John M. Barry, The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
Radio/TV Winner
Thomas Levenson and Paul Apsell, WGBH NOVA, “Origins: Back to the Beginning”
Newspaper/Magazine Winner
Gareth Cook, The Boston Globe, “The Stem Cell Debate”
2004 National Academies Communication Awards Selection Committee
Barbara J. Culliton (Committee Chair, IOM)
Vice president for publishing, The Center for the Advancement of Genomics; Editor-in-chief, Genome News Network
Marcia Bartusiak
Author and professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
May Berenbaum (NAS)
Professor, department of entomology, University of Illinois
Peter Dykstra
Executive producer, CNN Science Desk
Peggy Girshman
Assistant managing editor, NPR
David Perlman
Science editor, San Francisco Chronicle
Henry Petroski (NAE)
Professor of civil engineering and history, Duke University
Paul Raeburn
Author
George Strait
Associate vice chancellor for public affairs, University of California, Berkley
2004 National Academies Communication Awards Winners
Selected from 143 entries for works published or aired in 2003, the recipients of the 2004 awards were:
Book Winner
Matt Ridley, The Agile Gene: How Nature Turns on Nurture
Radio/TV Winner
Sue Norton and David Clark, The Science Channel’s (Discovery Communications, Inc.) “Science of the Deep: Mid-Water Mysteries”
Newspaper/Magazine Winner
Robert Lee Hotz, Los Angeles Times, “Butterfly on a Bullet”
2003 National Academies Communication Awards Selection Committee
Barbara J. Culliton (Committee Chair, IOM)
Vice president for publishing, The Center for the Advancement of Genomics; Editor-in-chief, Genome News Network
Marcia Bartusiak
Author and visiting professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
May Berenbaum (NAS)
Professor of entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
David Billington (NAE)
Professor of civil engineering and operations research, Princeton University
Peggy Girshman
Assistant managing editor, NPR
David Perlman
Science editor, San Francisco Chronicle
Boyce Rensberger
Director, Knight Science Journalism Fellowships, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
George Strait
Assistant vice chancellor for public affairs, University of California, Berkeley
2003 National Academies Communication Awards Winners
Selected from entries for works published or aired in 2002, the recipients of the 2003 awards were:
Book Winner
Carl Safina for Eye of the Albatross: Visions of Hope and Survival
Radio/TV Winner
Joe Palca, NPR, for a series of news stories for radio about the scientific and human dimensions of cloning
Newspaper/Magazine Winner
Andrew Revkin, The New York Times, for a series of articles on the complex science and policy issues of global climate change
