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News & Kudos
Teresa Firmino (08-09) received an Honorable Mention in Portugal's Fundação Ilídio Pinho Science Journalism Award for her series of articles published in "Público" on the extension of Portugal's continental shelf.
Update 2/9/09: The Costa Rican government is using two of the books in the Los Aventureros de la Ciencia series as a science teaching tool for the public schools. They are designing a whole new pedagogic curriculum based on the two novels and Angela will be teaching a series of seminars to train the public school teachers in the use of those novels, according to the new curriculum. updated on February 21, 2012
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Judith Horstman (Bush, 1986-87) has another new book: The Scientific American Healthy Aging Brain. Published in June by Josssy-Bass, it has blurbs from Dr. Oz, Dan Goleman and Marc Agronin who calls it "a must read for all aging brains!” It's a realistic but encouraging overview of normal aging, a sobering look at what can go wrong, and the latest in what neuroscience is finding might help your brain stay healthy longer. Horstman says the challenge of writing four brain books in four years is helping keep her own aging brain sharp. For more see: 
Knight Science Journalism at MIT has selected twelve journalists from five countries for its 30th class of Fellows. The journalists will study science, health, environment and technology at MIT during the academic year 2012-13. The entire list of Fellows can be seen 
Scientific American recently published The Scientific American Book of Love, Sex and the Brain: The Neuroscience of How, When, Why and Who We Love, by Judith Horstman. This is the third book in a series of Scientific American brain books by 1986-87 Bush Fellow, Horstman. To find out more about this and all her books, visit Judith's web site at 
Former Fellow Seth Shulman was awarded a 2011 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship on April 7, 2011. Shulman was awarded the Fellowship to aid in researching his next project on Thomas Edison and the electric car. He was a Vannevar Bush Fellow - the predacessor to today's Knight Science Journalism at MIT Fellowship - for the 1985-86 academic year. 
Knight Science Journalism Fellow alum Luke Timmerman (05-06) was named a “Top Writer in Biotech” by FierceBiotech. FierceBiotech cited his work at Xconomy, which was cofounded by fellow alum Rebecca Zacks (05-06). FierceBiotech writes that Timmerman, “…understands the science and ‘gets’ the business like few others.” You can read more at 
Two former MIT Knight fellows, Carey Goldberg (01-02) and Pamela Ferdinand (03-04), along with another Boston area journalist, Beth Jones, have co-authored a book about their shared experience of seeking motherhood and romance. 
The first book by Marcin Jamkowski (09–10) was recently published in Polish. Ghosts of the Abyss of the Baltic Sea: Steuben, Gustloff, Goya is a documentary style investigation of the three largest maritime tragedies of all time—Wilhelm Gustloff (5–9 thousand people lost), Steuben (4.5 thousand) and Goya (6–7 thousand). All three belonged to Nazi Germany and in the last few months of World War II, they were torpedoed by Soviet Russia. Jamkowski interviewed survivors and sailors, dug through Soviet archives, and dived to the shipwrecks to research the book.
Valeria Román has published her first book for lay people. The book,
The World Federation of Science journalists elected a new board at its General Assembly held during the World Conference of Science Journalists in London. Natasha Mitchell (05-06)was elected to the board, and Valeria Roman (04-05) was promoted to vice-president. Congratulations Valeria and Natasha! 
Ellen Ruppel Shell (84-85) has a new book out, Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture, in which she uncovers the true cost of buying things cheaply.
Christoph Droesser's (93-94) new book Hast du Töne? Warum wir alle musikalisch sind (Why we all are musical) has just come out in Germany. The book deals with the latest insights that brain scientists and musicologists have won about music as a deeply rooted ability that (almost) every human has, and that we are neglecting it if we leave music making to the geniuses, prodigies and superstars. 
The Day We Found the Universe, a new book by Marcia Bartusiak (94-95) was published in April by Pantheon Books. Publisher's Weekly says, "...Bartusiak reveals the vibrant beginnings of modern astronomy, along with all the dreams and fears, rivalries and triumphs, of those involved."
Rachel Zimmerman (08–09) has co-authored The Doula Guide to Birth with senior-level doula Ananda Lowe. Doulas, or professional labor assistants, have led thousands of expectant women through the birthing process in a way that’s safe and meaningful, and that creates the birth and postbirth experience all mothers long for. This comprehensive book draws on the wisdom of these skilled experts, whose experience with doctors, midwives, nurses, and hospitals makes them invaluable advocates before, during, and after birth.
Announcing a new book by Barbara Moran (01-02): The Day We Lost the
H-bomb: Cold
War, Hot Nukes and the Worst Nuclear Weapons Disaster in History (Presidio Press.) The book is getting excellent advance press, and was chosen by Amazon.com as
one of their seven Best Books of April. 
The first four books in a series of young adult science and adventure novels by Angela Posada Swafford (00-01) were published in summer of 2007. The series, Los Aventureros de la Ciencia (The Adventurers of Science), is designed to educate young adults about science. One of the four books within the series, Dinosaurios Sumergidos (Sunken Dinosaurs), was chosen by the Ministry of Education of Mexico to be included in the libraries of its public schools for 2007. See the series blog