55 min
Episode 10_Beryl Lieff Benderly ThePostdocWay's Podcast
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- Ciencia
Prize-winning freelance journalist Beryl Lieff Benderly contributes both the monthly “Taken for Granted” column and frequent blog posts on science labor force and early-career issues and blogs to the Science magazine website. Her hundreds of articles have appeared in Miller-McCune, Scientific American, Scientific American Mind, Prism, Slate, Ladies Home Journal, Smithsonian and the New York Times and LA Times book reviews, among many other prominent publications. The author of 8 books, she has appeared on CNN, the “Today Show,” and several NPR stations and has taught science and health writing at the University of Maryland and in workshops co-sponsored by the International Center for Journalists and universities in Mexico, in Panama and Chile and the U.S. National Institutes of Health. Elected a Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science, she is treasurer of the National Association of Science Writers. Her 10 national writing prizes were awarded by IEEE-USA, the American Association of University Professors, the American Psychological Association and other organizations and cover topics including biomedical engineering, the scientific labor market, cancer genetics and linguistics. She prepared for her writing career by long ago earning an M.A. in anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and later dropping out of doctoral work at Washington University (St. Louis). This episode was recorded September 23 and conducted by Dr. Brian Postdoc for ThePostdocWay Spotlight Conversation Series.
Prize-winning freelance journalist Beryl Lieff Benderly contributes both the monthly “Taken for Granted” column and frequent blog posts on science labor force and early-career issues and blogs to the Science magazine website. Her hundreds of articles have appeared in Miller-McCune, Scientific American, Scientific American Mind, Prism, Slate, Ladies Home Journal, Smithsonian and the New York Times and LA Times book reviews, among many other prominent publications. The author of 8 books, she has appeared on CNN, the “Today Show,” and several NPR stations and has taught science and health writing at the University of Maryland and in workshops co-sponsored by the International Center for Journalists and universities in Mexico, in Panama and Chile and the U.S. National Institutes of Health. Elected a Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science, she is treasurer of the National Association of Science Writers. Her 10 national writing prizes were awarded by IEEE-USA, the American Association of University Professors, the American Psychological Association and other organizations and cover topics including biomedical engineering, the scientific labor market, cancer genetics and linguistics. She prepared for her writing career by long ago earning an M.A. in anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and later dropping out of doctoral work at Washington University (St. Louis). This episode was recorded September 23 and conducted by Dr. Brian Postdoc for ThePostdocWay Spotlight Conversation Series.
55 min