About the FellowshipSandra Blakeslee
Sandra Blakeslee writes about science for the New York Times from Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her specialty is neuroscience. Her latest book, The Body Has a Mind of Its Own, co-written with her science-writer son Matthew Blakeslee, will be published in August 2007. She has co-authored On Intelligence with Jeff Hawkins, Phantoms in the Brain with V.S. Ramachandran, and four books on the long-term effects of divorce with Judith Wallerstein. A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and returned Peace Corps volunteer (Borneo), she co-directs the Santa Fe Writing Workshop.
Andrew Brown
Andrew Brown is a feature writer for The Guardian and a weekly commentator for its online edition. He also makes documentaries on religious and political subjects for BBC Radio 4. From 1984 to 1986, he was the chief reporter for Spectator magazine and, for the next ten years, the religious affairs correspondent of The Independent. In that latter capacity he won the inaugural Templeton European Religion Writer Award in 1994. His books include The Darwin Wars and In the Beginning Was the Worm.
Richard Denton
Richard Denton is a documentary filmmaker and managing director of the independent production company 116 Films. His early films include Comrades, an award-winning series on the Soviet Union. For six years, he served as commissioning editor of the documentary series Everyman for BBC Religious Programmes. His recent films include The Search for the Garden of Eden, produced for Discovery, and the Jonathan Miller series Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief. He is currently working on a personal film, shot at the Kremlin, called Inside Putin's Palace.
Paul Kvinta
Paul Kvinta is a contributing editor for National Geographic Adventure magazine, where he writes primarily about ecology and culture. He has also written for Outside, Men's Journal, GQ, and the New York Times Magazine, and he has read his essays for National Public Radio's Weekend All Things Considered. His article "Stomping Grounds," about human-elephant conflict in northeast India, won both the Daniel Pearl Award for coverage of South Asia and a Lowell Thomas Award for environmental writing and was selected for publication in The Best American Magazine Writing 2005.
Juliet Eilperin
As the national environmental reporter for the Washington Post, Juliet Eilperin covers science, policy, and politics in areas including climate change, oceans, and air quality. In pursuit of those stories she has gone scuba diving with sharks in the Bahamas, trekking on the Arctic tundra with Selma Hayek and Jake Gyllenhaal, and searching on her hands and knees for rare insects in the caves of Tennessee. A graduate of Princeton University, she served as Princeton's youngest-ever McGraw Professor of Journalism in 2005. Her first book, Fight Club Politics: How Partisanship Is Poisoning the House of Representatives, was published that same year.
Michael Fitzgerald
Michael Fitzgerald is a freelance writer on issues in technology, science, business, and culture. His work appears in publications such as the Boston Globe Magazine, The Economist, and Technology Review. He also writes the Prototype column for the New York Times. He has received numerous awards as a writer and editor, including the top prize for a news story or series from the American Society of Business Press Editors and from the Computer Press Association as well as the 2000 Folio Editorial Excellence Gold Medal, the 2001 Maggie Award for best online publication, and the 2007 Outstanding Business and Technology Article award from the American Society of Journalists and Authors.
Jeremy Manier
Jeremy Manier is a science and medical reporter for the Chicago Tribune. His work covers a range of research—from stem cell policy to the manned space program—often focusing on its ethical, religious, or political implications. He joined the Tribune in 1996 as a journalism fellow with the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was part of a three-person team that won the 2006 Lisagor Award for in-depth reporting from the Chicago Headline Club for a series on the commercial and biological basis of America's love affair with junk food.
Ehsan Masood
Ehsan Masood writes on science and the environment in the developing world. A consultant-editor and editorial writer for Nature, he also writes commentary for New Scientist and Prospect magazines as well as a fortnightly column on science, development, and faith for the online magazine OpenDemocracy.Net. His work appears regularly in SciDev.Net, the website operated jointly by the journals Nature and Science. His books include Dry: Life Without Water, written with Daniel Schaffer, and How Do You Know? Reading Ziauddin Sardar on Islam, Science, and Cultural Relations.
Peter McKnight
Peter McKnight is a columnist for the Vancouver Sun and member of its editorial board. He writes and lectures on a wide variety of topics, including science, religion, philosophy, ethics, and law, and his columns have appeared in many major North American newspapers. He was a Knight Science fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2004, and in 2006 won the Canadian Bar Association's Justicia Award for excellence in legal journalism. He holds master's degrees in journalism and philosophy as well as a law degree.
Sharon Schmickle
Sharon Schmickle covers national and international stories for the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Her recent assignments have taken her to Iraq, Afghanistan, Egypt, Pakistan, Kuwait, Thailand, and the UK. Before 2003, she worked in the Star Tribune's Minneapolis newsroom as a science writer and in its Washington Bureau as a Capitol Hill and political reporter. She has won top awards from the National Press Club, the Overseas Press Club, the Society of Professional Journalists, and the Associated Press. She was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1996.