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    Cori Vanchieri

    Features Editor, Science News

    Cori Vanchieri joined Science News in August 2014 as features editor. Before that she was story editor at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s magazine, the HHMI Bulletin. She has more than 25 years of experience as a writer, editor and project manager within the health and science field. She helped launch news sections at the Journal of the National Cancer Institute and Annals of Internal Medicine and was senior medical editor at Cleveland Clinic Magazine. She earned a bachelor’s degree in nutrition from Cornell University and a master’s in journalism from Stanford University.

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    Lizzie Wade

    contributing correspondent, Science

    Lizzie Wade is a contributing correspondent for Science, covering archaeology, anthropology, and all things Latin America. Her work has also appeared in Wired, Aeon, Slate, and the California Sunday Magazine, among others. She lives in Mexico City.

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    LeeAnne Walters

    LeeAnne Walters is a Flint resident turned water activist and citizen scientist who helped expose the lead contamination of Flint's drinking water supply by leading citywide water sampling and protest efforts as well as bringing in EPA and Virginia Tech experts to provide scientific evidence. In February 2016, she testified before the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), State of Michigan and the federal EPA's role in creating and prolonging the Flint water crisis. She is also the recipient of the 2016 PEN/Toni and James C. Goodale Freedom of Expression Courage Award, the 2016 Health Policy Heroes Award and the Champion of Children Award. She is a dual citizen of Flint, MI and Norfolk, VA, where she lives with her husband and four children.

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    Steven Weinberg

    Jack S. Josey-Welch Foundation Chair in Science and Regental Professor; director, Theory Group, University of Texas at Austin

    Steven Weinberg is one of the towering figures of physics. His research on elementary particle physics and cosmology has been honored with the Nobel Prize in Physics, the National Medal of Science, the Benjamin Franklin Medal of the American Philosophical Society, the Dannie Heinemann Prize for Mathematical Physics, and numerous other awards. He has been elected to the National Academy of Science and Britain's Royal Society and other academies, and holds 16 honorary doctoral degrees. He has written more than 300 scientific articles along with six treatises on general relativity, quantum field theory, cosmology, and quantum mechanics. He is also a lively expositor who enjoys talking to science writers; this is Weinberg’s third appearance as a New Horizons in Science speaker. Among his books for general readers are Dreams of a Final Theory, The First Three Minutes, and two collections of published essays, Facing Up: Science and its Cultural Adversaries, and Lake Views: This World and the Universe. Many of these essays first appeared in the New York Review of Books. His essay writing has earned Weinberg the Lewis Thomas Award for the Scientist as Poet and other awards. His latest book, To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science, was published in 2015. Educated at Cornell, Copenhagen, and Princeton, he taught at Columbia, Berkeley, MIT and Harvard, where he was Higgins Professor of Physics, before coming to Texas in 1982.

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    Pamela Weintraub

    Psychology, Neuroscience and Medical Editor, Aeon

    Pamela Weintraub is the Psychology, Neuroscience and Medical Editor at Aeon. She was former Executive Editor at Discover in New York City and former Editor-in-Chief at OMNI. She is author or co-author of 16 books, including Cure Unknown: Inside the Lyme Epidemic, which won the American Medical Writers Association first place book award in 2009.

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    Florence Williams

    Contributing editor, Outside magazine 

    Florence Williams is a contributing editor at Outside magazine and a freelance writer for The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, New York Review of Books, Slate, Mother Jones, High Country News, O-Oprah, W., Bicycling and numerous other publications.

    A fellow at the Center for Humans and Nature and a visiting scholar at George Washington University, her work focuses on the environment, health and science. Her first book, BREASTS: A Natural and Unnatural History (W.W. Norton 2012) received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in science and technology and the 2013 Audie in general nonfiction. It was also named a notable book of 2012 by The New York Times. 

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    Alexandra Witze

    Correspondent, Nature and Science News

    Alexandra Witze is a contributing correspondent for Nature and Science News magazines. She writes news and features, primarily about the earth sciences, from her base in Boulder, Colo. With her husband Jeff Kanipe, she is the author of Island on Fire, a book about the extraordinary 18th-century eruption of the Icelandic volcano Laki (Pegasus Books, 2015). Alex is a nationally known science writer who has earned top journalism prizes from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Geophysical Union, the American Institute of Physics, and the National Association of Science Writers. Among other places her reporting has taken her to the North Pole, to an earthquake zone in China, and to Maya ruins in the Guatemalan jungle. She is on the board of directors for The Open Notebook. Between 2005 and 2010 she served as features editor, news editor, and Washington bureau chief for Nature, the international weekly journal of science. Alex has also worked as a general science reporter at the Dallas Morning News in Texas and as an editor at the first Earth magazine, in Wisconsin. She has a bachelor’s degree in geology from MIT and a graduate certificate in science communication from the University of California, Santa Cruz. www.alexandrawitze.com www.lakithebook.com Twitter: @alexwitze

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    Ashley Yeager

    Science writer, Simons Foundation

    Ashley Yeager is a staff writer at the Simons Foundation and also a freelance writer and editor. She has also worked at Science News, Duke University and at the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii. Ashley has an undergraduate degree in journalism from the University of Tennessee and a master’s in science writing from MIT. She is currently co-chair of the education committee for the National Association of Science Writers and teaches an online science writing course for high school students through MIT's Office of Engineering Outreach Programs.

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