Education B.A. in scientific writing, University of California at San Diego, 1981 Work Experience 1984-85 Voice of America, Newswriter, Special English 1986-1990 Washington City Paper, Senior Editor 1990-Present Science, Contributing Correspondent 1993-1999 Science, Staff Writer 2010-2011, Wave Lines, Editor 1980-Present Freelance Articles have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, New Yorker, Washington Post (newspaper and magazine), New York Times (newspaper and magazine), Outside, Smithsonian, Slate, Technology Review, New Republic, Washington Monthly, Talk, Discover, Surfer, Wave Lines, Wired, Glamour and other publications. Broadcast experience includes writing and voicing stories for Voice of America, National Public Radio, Slate V, Science videos, and Reporter’s Notebook (webcast by Kaiser Family Foundation from international AIDS conferences). Consultant on PBS documentary “Ending AIDS” (based on Shots in the Dark). Also interviewed on NPR’s Terry Gross, Diane Rehm, Weekend Edition, Marketplace and Science Friday; Newshour with Jim Lehrer; “Today” show. Books Shots in the Dark: The Wayward Search for an AIDS Vaccine (W.W. Norton: 2001) Coming to Term: Uncovering the Truth about Miscarriage (Houghton Mifflin: 2005) Almost Chimpanzee: Searching for What Makes Us Human, In Rainforests, Labs, Sanctuaries and Zoo (Henry Holt: 2010) Anthologies Best American Science and Nature Writing 2011, editor Mary Roach, “Fertility Rites” (Houghton Mifflin: 2011) Best American Science and Nature Writing 2008, editor Jerome Groopman, “Zonkeys are Pretty Much My Favorite Animal” (Houghton Mifflin: 2008)
 Smithsonian Magazine, Editor’s Choice, “Gone Up North, Gone Out West” (Smithsonian Books, 1990). Awards 2011 Communications Awards, National Academies Keck Futures Initiative, Books, Finalist Almost Chimpanzee 2011 ASM Public Communications Award “HIV/AIDS: Eastern Europe,” Science (July 9, 2010) American Society for Microbiology Excellence in Media Award for Global Health, 2009 Newspaper, Magazine and Major Print Publication “Money Matters,” Science (July 25, 2008) Global Health Council Science and Society Award 2002 First Place Book, Shots in the Dark National Association of Science Writers International Health Reporting 1998 First Place, “The Rise and Fall of Projet SIDA,” Science (November 28, 1997) Pan American Health Organization, Sigma Delta Chi Washington 1988 Dateline Award, First Place Features in Weekly “A Tale of Two Vaccines.” Washington City Paper Grants 2010, Open Society Institute’s Public Health Program to support “HIV/AIDS: Eastern Europe” package for Science 2008, Kaiser Family Foundation, minifellowship to support “Follow the Money” package on HIV/AIDS for Science 2006, Kaiser Family Foundation, travel for HIV/AIDS in Latin America and Caribbean for Science 2003/4, Kaiser Family Foundation, travel for HIV/AIDS in Asia package for Science 2000 Sloan Foundation, complete Shots in the Dark Fund for Investigative Journalism, May 1992, research story for Atlantic Monthly on polio vaccines. Fund for Investigative Journalism, July 1988, research “In Search of the Finders” for Washington City Paper Teaching 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008 Teach-ins for journalists from developing countries at international AIDS conferences. National Press Foundation and Kaiser Family Foundation 2004-2010 Workshop on Science Journalism, Latin American journalists, Institute of the Americas 2005-2007 California Health Endowment Fellowships program for California and Latin American journalists 1993-Present Guest lecturer at UC San Diego, Stanford University, Medical University of South Carolina, National Association of Science Writers, University of Southern California, UC Berkeley Journalism Graduate Program, UC Santa Cruz Science Writing Graduate Program, Harvard University, Emory University, University of British Columbia, Scripps Research Institute http://www.google.com/

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