Awards
Recent awards and fellowships won by SHERP graduates, students and faculty
December 5, 2018
SHERP alum wins data visualization award
Lena Groeger (SHERP 2011) and two of her ProPublica collaborators have won a Kantar Information is Beautiful award for a visualization that tracked Donald Trump’s empty promises of job gains.
November 27, 2018
SHERP grad chosen as a fellow of AAAS
Karen McNulty Walsh (SHERP 1989), a science writer at Brookhaven National Laboratory, has been elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in the General Interest in Science and Engineering section.
September 18, 2018
Two SHERP alums finalists for national science writing award
Frederik Joelving and Lynne Peeples (both SHERP 2009) have been named finalists in the National Association of Science Writers’ Science in Society awards. Joelving was honored for a Slate story about drug testing, while Peeples was honored for an Undark story about the environmental and health risks of lead ammunition.
August 2, 2018
SHERP graduate wins environmental reporting award
Rachel Nuwer (SHERP 2011) has won first place in the beat reporting category of the 17th annual Society of Environmental Journalists Awards for Reporting on the Environment. She was recognized for her stories on the wildlife tr
April 30, 2018
SHERP alum wins Knight fellowship
Katie Palmer (SHERP 2011) has been awarded a John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship Stanford.
April 17, 2018
SHERP grad wins food reporting fellowship
Feini Yin (SHERP 2015) has been awarded a Berkeley-11th Hour Food and Farming Journalism Fellowship.
January 7, 2018
SHERP graduate wins children’s book award
Karen de Seve (SHERP 1994) has won the American Meteorological Society’s Louis J. Battan Authors Award in the K-12 category for her book about weather.