Richard Stone
Work History | |
July 2005 – present | Asia News Editors, Science Magazine Assign and edit articles on Asian science, with a focus on China; manage staff writes in Japan and India and freelancers across the continent. |
Sept 2004 – July 2005 | Visiting Scholar, Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan As a Fulbright Scholar, lectured at Kazakh National University and researched the legacy of the Semipalatinsk test range in northern Kazakhstan. |
2003 – 2004 | Visiting Writer in Science, St. Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge, U.K. Lectured on science and environmental journalism and ran a writing workshop at the University of Cambridge in England. |
2000 – 2004 | European News Editor, Science Magazine Assigned and edited articles on European science; managed staff writers across the continent; wrote on Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, including Russia, specializing in nonproliferation of nuclear and biological weapons. |
1997 – 2000 | Deputy News Editor, Science Magazine Assigned and edited articles on environmental and behavioral sciences; wrote on the former Soviet Union; managed ScienceNOW, a daily Web news service. |
1995 – 1996 | Lecturer, Rostov State University, Russia As a Fulbright Scholar, taught science and environmental journalism. Edited a student newspaper on environmental issues in southwestern Russia. |
1991 – 1995 | Writer, Science Magazine Covered environmental science and biotechnology; edited ScienceScope, a weekly column of science policy news briefs.
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Education | |
1991 | M.S., science communication, University of California, Santa Cruz |
1998 | B.S., biology, Cornell University
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Honors | |
2004 – 2005 | Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |
2004 – 2005 | Fulbright Scholar, Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan |
2002 | American Institute of Biological Sciences’ Science Writing Award |
2001 | Pan American Health Organization’s International Journalism Award |
2001 | Walter Sullivan Science Writing Award from the American Geophysical Union |
1997 | Arthur Burns Fellowship at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in Germany |
1995 | Evert Clark Award for Science Journalism |
1994 | Woods Hole Marine Biology fellowship to study molecular biology and to visit the Toolik Lake long-ecological research site in northern Alaska |