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Director of Research Communications, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Terry Devitt is Director of Research Communications for the University of Wisconsin-Madison. For the past 26 years he has covered the basic and applied sciences at UW-Madison. He also edits and is the project coordinator for The Why Files, a popular and critically successful site about science and technology published on the World Wide Web. Devitt is an active freelance science writer and has contributed to such publications as Astronomy, Orion, the Los Angeles Times Syndicate, the Milwaukee Journal, the American Heart Association, the Bulletin of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the children's science magazine Muse. His awards include the 2001 Science Journalism Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Award for In-depth Reporting. In 1997, he was the recipient of a Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) Gold Award for his work helping to develop The Why Files. In 2007, he was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Devitt also serves on the board of the National Association of Science Writers.