SciCats: Science Journalism Projects at the UA.

24/04/2020

Today is DNA day!! It is being celebrated by announcing the winners of the 2020 DNA Day essay contest. This essay contest for K-12 students is held every year by the American Society of Human Genetics, the premier international organization for human geneticists. For the past five years, I've participated as a judge in this contest. I see my participation not only as important national and international service, but also as a way to keep up my knowledge as a geneticist while also exercising my "writing muscles" as a professor who teaches both science journalism and introductory reporting. I have one foot in science and one foot in journalism. Both fields are important to democracy, humanity and the world.

Congratulations to our 2019 essay winners! This year’s topic addressed disclosing a Huntington's disease diagnosis to a family member.

09/04/2018

Decades of painstaking work to balance ecological needs with local economies are being wiped away.

31/03/2018

26/03/2018

The resolution, signed Feb. 16, reversed an Obama-era rule aimed at blocking coal-mining operations from dumping waste into nearby waterways.

21/03/2018

Dozens of species have seen their numbers decline, in some cases by two-thirds, because insects they feed on have disappeared

21/03/2018

Recently, my collaborator Andrew and I published The Mississippi Delta Chinese Project, an audiovisual storytelling project that was…

18/03/2018

02/03/2018

Agencies can't agree over how best to prevent a shortage on the drought-stricken Colorado River.

02/03/2018

This is what extinction looks like.

26/02/2018

Arctic temperatures are warmer than ever recorded in February.

23/02/2018

This latest temperature spike is another striking indicator of the Arctic's rapidly changing climate.

20/02/2018

With a simple chalk line, Eve Mosher shows that storms and sea-level rise are imminent threats.