AWARDS LUNCHON SPEAKER:
KC Cole
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 About
KC Cole
Author, Professor, Annenberg School of Journalism, University
of Southern California
For the past ten years, KC Cole has been a science writer
and columnist for the Los Angeles Times; she has also written
for The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Smithsonian, Discover,
Newsweek, Newsday, Esquire, Ms., People and many other publications.
Her articles were featured in The Best American Science Writing
2004 and 2005 and The Best American Science and Nature Writing
2002. She has also been an editor at Discover and Newsday.
Cole is the author of seven nonfiction books, including Mind
Over Matter: Conversations with the Cosmos; The Hole in the
Universe: How Scientists Peered Over the Edge of Emptiness
and Found Everything; The Universe and the Teacup, the Mathematics
of Truth and Beauty, and a soon to be released biography of
Frank Oppenheimer.
She has developed and taught courses in science, culture
and society as a Fellow at Yale and Wesleyan Universities
and as adjunct professor of Science, Society and Communication
at UCLA.
Cole particularly likes to show how science is integral to
the arts and politics (and vice versa), and firmly believes,
in the words of an artist friend that, "the worst disease
afflicting human kind is 'hardening of the categories'."
To that end, she runs a monthly series of informal events
on science/art/politics known as Categorically Not! She’s
made a point of writing about science in unlikely venues (such
as women’s magazines) and unlikely forms (at the LA Times,
she wrote about the mathematics of voting, the science of
affirmative action and why the OJ Simpson trial had everything
to do with the discovery of the top quark).
She has been honored with the American Institute of Physics
Science Writing prize; the Los Angeles Times award for deadline
reporting; the Skeptics’ Society Edward R. Murrow Award for
Thoughtful Coverage of Scientific Controversies; Los Angeles
Times award for best explanatory journalism, and the Elizabeth
A. Wood Science Writing Award from the American Crystallographic
Association.
Cole has been associated with San Francisco’s "museum
of human awareness," the Exploratorium, since 1972, and
is currently working on a philosophical biography of its founder
(and her mentor), the late physicist Frank Oppenheimer. Before
getting into science writing, she wrote about international
politics, travel, women’s issues, education and humor. She
is an active member of JAWS (Journalism and Women Symposium).
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