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    Vanessa Wasta

    Communications manager, basic science research, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore Md.

    Vanessa Wasta has spent more than 20 years in science and medical communications. She manages communications for basic science research at Johns Hopkins Medicine, spanning three institutes and more than 250 faculty. Her team oversees media relations, digital publications and social media channels relating to basic science research.

    She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in biology and a master's degree in business administration. Previously, she managed media relations and web projects at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, covering laboratory and clinical research news, as well as social media. Before joining Johns Hopkins, she was a graduate resident in the marketing and public relations office for the University of Maryland Greenebaum Cancer Center.

    She is a member of the National Association of Science Writers and an emeritus member and former chair of the public affairs and marketing network of the nation's top cancer centers.

    Twitter: @vanessawasta
    Email: wasta@jhmi.edu

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    Ron Winslow

    Freelance writer, Hales Location, N.H.

    Ron Winslow is a freelance medical and science writer. He recently retired from the Wall Street Journal where as an editor and senior medical writer he wrote broadly on the intersection of innovation and economics in the health care system during a career of nearly 34 years. In 2011, he won the Victor Cohn Award for Excellence in Medical Science Reporting from the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing. He is a past president of the National Association of Science Writers and was a founding board member of the Association of Health Care Journalists. He was co-chair of the 10th Annual World Conference of Science Journalists in San Francisco in 2017.

    Twitter: @ronwinslow
    Email: ronwinslow67@gmail.com

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    Lauren Wolf

    Deputy editorial director; executive editor, science, Chemical & Engineering News, Washington, D.C.

    Lauren earned a Ph.D. in bioanalytical chemistry at Boston University and carried out a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institute of Standards & Technology studying nonlinear spectroscopy before realizing her calling as a journalist. She was standing in a dark laser lab at NIST alone — again — and decided what she really enjoyed was telling people about science. She joined C&EN in 2008 and is now the head of the science team at the magazine. In addition to being responsible for the magazine's scientific content, she oversees C&EN's multimedia team and the journal news & community group. She lives and works in Washington, D.C.

    Twitter: @laurenkwolf
    Email: l_wolf@acs.org

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    Elijah Wolfson

    Health and science editor, Time magazine, New York, N.Y.

    Elijah Wolfson is a writer, editor, and multimedia journalist currently based out of New York, N.Y. He is currently an editor at Time magazine, focusing on health and environmental science. Elijah is a former health & science editor at Quartz and senior editor at Newsweek, and was the editorial director of Medical Daily from 2013-2016. He has contributed to the Atlantic, Al Jazeera America, Vice and the Huffington Post, and has appeared on BBC World News, MSNBC, and NBC, among others. His work was recognized for a 2018 Drum Online Media Award, a 2017 Science in Society Journalism Award by the National Association of Science Writers, a 2015 award for best article by the Population Institute, and was a finalist for the 2018 John B. Oakes Award for Distinguished Environmental Journalism. He has been awarded fellowships from the John Jay College Center on Media, Crime, and Justice; the International Reporting Program; and the Metcalf Institute.

    Email: elijahwolfson@gmail.com

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    Tak-Sing Wong

    Penn State

    Tak-Sing Wong, Wormley Family Early Career professor in engineering, associate professor of mechanical engineering, is a mechanical engineer and materials scientist. He studies life forms in nature that have adapted to their environment using micro and nano technology and applies them to engineering solutions. Wong and his team are transforming simple observations from nature into advanced materials technologies that can profoundly impact our everyday lives. Wong’s research is inspired by the ultra-slipperiness of pitcher plants, self-cleaning lotus leaves, antireflective leafhopper-produced brochosomes, and the self-healing membranes of microorganisms.

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    Jason Wright

    Associate professor of astronomy and astrophysics, Penn State University

    As a member of Penn State's Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds, Jason Wright studies stars, their atmospheres, their activity and their planets, and also works on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). He is a project scientist for NEID (NN-explore Exoplanet Investigations with Doppler spectroscopy), a principal investigator with NExSS (Nexus for Exoplanet System Science), a co-PI of the MINERVA (Miniature Exoplanet Radial Velocity Array) observatory, and a member of the Habitable Zone Planet Finder team. He teaches at the University Park campus and has an active research group of students and postdocs. He maintains the Exoplanet Orbit Database and Exoplanet Data Explorer at exoplanets.org, a powerful guide to the orbits of known exoplanets; and the RVLIN and BOOTTRAN packages of Interactive Data Language routines for efficiently fitting multiple Keplerian curves to radial velocity data, and extracting accurate uncertainties for orbital parameters, including transit times.

    Twitter: @Astro_Wright
    Web: https://sites.psu.edu/astrowright/
    http://exoplanets.org

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    Corinna Wu

    Senior Editor, C&EN

    Corinna Wu edits news and features for Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), the weekly magazine published by the American Chemical Society. C&EN covers all aspects of the molecular sciences and related fields, including research advances, business and policy trends, career issues, and more. Wu spent seven years as a freelancer prior to joining C&EN in 2013. She has a background in materials science and engineering and is a graduate of the science communication program at UC Santa Cruz.

    Email: ckwu@nasw.org

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    Wudan Yan

    Freelance independent journalist, photographer, and fact-checker, Seattle, Wash.

    Wudan Yan is an independent journalist, photographer, and factchecker based in Seattle, Wash. Her writing about science, health, environment, global development, and human rights has appeared in the California Sunday Magazine, Discover, High Country News, Mongabay, the New Yorker, the New York Times, PRI, and STAT News, among others. She has reported throughout Asia in Bangladesh, Kazakhstan, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, and Thailand. Her reporting has been supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, UC Berkeley's 11th Hour Food and Farming fellowship, and the Institute for Journalism & Natural Resources. In 2018, she received hostile environment and first aid training.

    Email: wudan.yan@gmail.com
    Twitter: @wudanyan

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    Ashley Yeager

    Associate editor, The Scientist, Durham, N.C.

    Ashley Yeager is an associate editor at The Scientist. Previously, she worked as a freelance writer, editor and multimedia producer, and also at the Simons Foundation as a science writer, at Science News as a web producer and at Duke University as a writer and multimedia producer. She has an undergraduate degree in journalism from the University of Tennessee and a master's in science writing from MIT. She co-chairs the education committee of the National Association of Science Writers.

    Twitter: @ashleyjyeager
    Email: ashleyjyeager@nasw.org

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    Daisy Yuhas

    Features editor, Sapiens, Denver, Colo.

    Daisy Yuhas is the features editor for SAPIENS. She is a science journalist and editor based in Austin, Texas, whose curiosity has driven her to cover the search for the Higgs boson particle, birds brought back from the brink of extinction, and the myriad quirks of human behavior. Previously, she was a columnist for The Hechinger Report, writing about the intersection of cognitive science and education, and a staff editor at Scientific American MIND. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times for Kids, Scientific American, Audubon magazine, NBC News MACH, Spectrum News, and Symmetry magazine, among other outlets.

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    Sarah Zielinski

    Managing editor, Science News for Students, Washington, D.C.

    Sarah Zielinski is the managing editor of Science News for Students and a contributor to Science News magazine. She currently sits on the NASW Board. Sarah holds a B.A. in biology from Cornell University and an M.A. in journalism from New York University's science, health and environmental reporting program. Sarah was formerly an editor at Smithsonian magazine, and her work has also appeared in Slate, Science, Scientific American, Discover and National Geographic News. She writes about climate change, ecology and animals — especially animals that eat weird things.

    Twitter: @SarahZielinski
    Email: szielinski@sciencenews.org

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