Awards
Recent prizes and fellowships awarded to SHERP graduates, students, and faculty
February 7, 2019
SHERP graduate named as first New York Times science reporting fellow
Knvul Sheikh (SHERP 2016) has been named the inaugural New York Times science/health newsroom fellow, topping a field of several hundred applicants.
January 24, 2019
SHERP alum wins major science journalism award
Shannon Hall (SHERP 2015) has won the David Perlman Award for Excellence in Science Journalism, bestowed by the American Geophysical Union for a Scientific American story about the search for tectonic activity on other planets.
January 17, 2019
SHERP graduate wins children’s book award from AAAS
Mary Kay Carson (SHERP 1990), who has written fifty science books for kids, has won the hands-on children’s book category in the AAAS/Subaru Prizes for Excellence in Science Books.
December 12, 2018
SHERP alum chosen for early-career science journalism fellowship
Knvul Sheikh (SHERP 2016) has been awarded an Open Notebook/Burroughs Wellcome Fund early career fellowship.
December 11, 2018
SHERP graduate wins bioethics reporting award
Antonio Regalado (SHERP 1994) has won the Hastings Center Award for Excellence in Journalism on Ethics and Reprogenetics for his story in Technology Review on the manufacture of eggs and sperm in the laboratory.
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.