Robert Lee Hotz covers science and technology for The Wall Street Journal. He is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute and president of the Alicia Patterson Foundation, which funds independent journalism projects around the world. He is a past president of the National Association of Science Writers. Mr. Hotz was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1986 and a finalist again in 2004. Mr. Hotz shared in the Los Angeles Times’ 1995 Pulitzer Prize for articles about the Northridge earthquake. He also has received awards from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine; the Society of Professional Journalists, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and the American Geophysical Union. He is a Fellow of The AAAS.