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Academies announce winners of 2015 Communication Awards

September 9th, 2015

The recipients of the 2015 Communication Awards were announced today by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Supported by the W.M. Keck Foundation since 2003 as part of the Keck Futures Initiative, these prestigious awards—each of which includes a $20,000 prize—recognize excellence in reporting and communicating science, engineering, and medicine to the general public. The winners will be honored during a ceremony on Oct. 14 in Washington, D.C.

"We enjoyed an embarrassment of riches this year, with outstanding entries representing a tremendous diversity of scientific subjects," said May Berenbaum, NAS member and chair of the communication awards selection committee, and professor and head of entomology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "Choosing the best among the best was difficult but the winners are exemplars of how excellent popular science writing can make complex science understandable, relevant, and thoroughly engaging."

Selected from 344 entries for works published or aired in 2014, the recipients of this year's awards are:

Book

Mark Miodownik for Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World (Houghton-Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Co.)"A fascinating account of the extraordinary nature of the seemingly ordinary materials of modern-day life"

Film/Radio/TV

For the first time, two recipients were selected in this category:

David Kaplan and Mark Levinson for "Particle Fever" "An engrossing, minute-by-minute diary of the roller-coaster nature of scientific discovery"

Michael Rosenfeld, David Dugan, and Neil Shubin for "Your Inner Fish" (HHMI/Tangled Bank Studios)"An enthralling examination of the ancient animal ancestry in the fossil record and in our own bodies"

Newspaper/Magazine

Karen Bouffard, The Detroit News, for the series "Detroit Is the Deadliest City for Children" (January 2014) "A devastating portrayal of the complex factors underlying a city's public health emergency"

Online

Deborah Nelson and the Reuters team for the series "Water's Edge: The Crisis of Rising Sea Levels""A comprehensive investigation of a slow-motion environmental crisis with imaginative data visualization and interactive tools"

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