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Rules | Entry Form | Past Winners: Journalist | Scientist | Children | Broadcast Media Science Communication Awards - 2008 Winner BiosAnn Finkbeiner Finkbeiner now runs that same graduate program in science writing and lives permanently in Baltimore with her husband, a (now-retired) physicist. She has written three books, including "The Jasons" and is currently writing a fourth. She has also written reviews, columns and magazine articles for the New York Times, USA Today, Discover, the Wall Street Journal, Sky & Telescope, the Wilson Quarterly, Astronomy, Science, Mosaic, The Sciences, and Defense Technology International. Finkbeiner is the winner of the 2008 AIP Science Writing Award in the Journalist category. Her award will be presented on March 19, 2009 at the American Physical Society's March Meeting in Pittsburgh. The press release announcing her award-winning piece is available here. Gino Segre Author of more than 100 papers in his field, Segre has also written many popular articles and two books for the general public. His first book, “A Matter of Degrees: What Temperature Reveals About the Past and Future of Our Species, Planet, and Universe,” was published by Viking/Penguin in 2002. Segre has received numerous research awards from foundations and government agencies that include the National Science Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the John S. Guggenheim Foundation, the John D. Rockefeller Foundation, the Liguria Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Energy. Segre is the winner of the 2008 AIP Science Writing Award in the Scientist category. His award will be presented on March 19, 2009 at the American Physical Society's March Meeting in Pittsburgh. The press release announcing his award-winning piece is available here. More about "Faust in Copehagen"" Julia Cort Cort returned to her documentary roots in 1991 when she joined the Science Unit at WGBH in Boston. Now a senior producer at WGBH, Cort has contributed to more than thirty programs, including television's most-watched, primetime science series "NOVA." For the last four years, she's been producing stories for the Science Unit's lively, magazine-format program "NOVA scienceNOW," tackling everything from archeology to molecular biology to string theory. She has traveled deep underground, investigating the hunt for dark matter, been blindfolded and driven to secret diamond-making factories, waded through leech-infested swamps, trekked the forests of Siberia to film the long-lost bones of the last Russian Tsar, and attempted to recreate the technological wonders of Egyptian pharaohs by raising 30-ton granite obelisks. Her work has been honored with the numerous awards and recognitions, including the AAAS Science Journalism Award, a George Foster Peabody Award for her work on the production "The Elegant Universe," a nomination from the Writers Guild of America, and two Emmy nominations for her stories "Mirror Neurons" and "Fuel Cells." In 2002, she won the News and Documentary Emmy for writing the NOVA special "Life's Greatest Miracle." Cort is the winner of the 2008 AIP Science Writing Award in the Broadcast category. Her award will be presented on March 19, 2009 at the American Physical Society's March Meeting in Pittsburgh. The press release announcing her award-winning piece is available here. Alexandra Siy She is the author of more than a dozen children's books, including "Mosquito Bite" (also coauthored with Kunkel), which was an Orbis Pictus honor book and Texas Bluebonnet nominee. Her book "Footprints on the Moon" received a Parent's Choice Nonfiction Silver Honor Award. Her next book, "CARS ON MARS: Roving the Red Planet," will be out in 2009. Currently a resident of Saratoga Springs, New York, where she teaches high school science and mathematics at The Waldorf School of Saratoga Springs, Siy was living with her husband and children in Anchorage, Alaska while writing SNEEZE! It was an exciting time, she says, during which she was attacked by mosquitoes (she thinks it was revenge for her earlier book), watched the Iditarod, hiked alongside glaciers, caught salmon, skied in 300 inches of powder, taught in a Waldorf-inspired charter school, and took photographs all the while. Siy is the co-winner of the 2008 AIP Science Writing Award in the Children's Book category. She will receive her award in July 2009 at the American Association of Physics Teachers' summer meeting in Ann Arbor, MI. The press release announcing her award-winning piece is available here. Dennis Kunkel Appearing worldwide in print, film, and electronic media, Kunkel's images have taken more than 40 international photography awards, including the Royal Microscopical Society Micrography Competition, Nikon’s Small World Competition, Kodak’s Professional Photographers Showcase Award and Polaroid’s International Photomicrography Grand Prize Award. His images have appeared on the covers of over a hundred publications, including scientific journals, trade periodicals, textbooks, magazines and books (Time, US Pharmacist, L’Image, Functional Photography, Geo, Biology and Medicine, Children Science, Science). His images have accompanied editorial text in major publications such as Scientific American, National Wildlife, Forbes, Popular Science, Life, Audubon, Discover and National Geographic. Kunkel has curated a number of photo exhibits that showcase his and other leading photomicrographer’s work (Association of Science-Technology Centers - Microcosm, National Science Foundation, Seattle Pacific Science Center, Hawaii Bishop Museum). He is also the photographer and co-author on five children’s books: "MicroAliens: Dazzling Journeys with an Election Microscope," "Hidden Worlds: Looking Through a Scientist's Microscope," "Mosquito Bite," "The Good, the Bad, the Slimy," and "SNEEZE!" His images will be featured in a new children’s book series called "Body Battles" to be published by Millbrook Press in March 2009. Kunkel is the co-winner of the 2008 AIP Science Writing Award in the Children's Book category. He will receive his award in July 2009 at the American Association of Physics Teachers' summer meeting in Ann Arbor, MI. The press release announcing his award-winning piece is available here. |
Raised on a little farm outside Naperville, Illinois, Ann Finkbeiner grew up in small town America surrounded by woods, plowed fields, and prairies. After college, she moved east and eventually settled into science writing, taking a master's degree in science writing from the Writing Seminars program at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
Born in Florence, Italy in 1938, Gino Segre grew up in New York and Italy. He graduated from Harvard University (A.B., 1959) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D., 1963). He is now a professor emeritus in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania. He has been a visiting professor at M.I.T and at Oxford University as well as a visiting Fellow at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) and the University of California, Berkeley.
Julia Cort started making films more than 25 years ago as a student at Harvard University. Her thesis film, "A Fine Romance," was an intimate examination of her parents' complicated marriage, and it won the New England Film and Video Festival Student Film Award. During the 1980's, she spent several years in New York and Los Angeles working on more than twenty feature films and television shows, including "Tales from the Darkside," "Hairspray," and "Dirty Dancing."
Alexandra Siy grew up in the small town of Clarksville in upstate New York. She earned a B.A. in biology from the State University of New York at Plattsburgh and an M.A. in science education from the University of Albany. 
Dennis Kunkel, Ph.D., is a scientist and award-winning photomicrographer who grew up in a small farming town in central Iowa. After attending a junior college in Iowa, he traveled west to Seattle, receiving a B.S. and a Ph.D. from the University of Washington. There he worked as a researcher at the University of Washington until 1993, when he moved to Hawaii with his wife to conduct research at the University of Hawaii. In 2001, he turned his laboratory skills to the commercial world and started a scientific photography business producing electron micrograph images of the invisible world.