Nadia Drake
Nadia Drake is a science journalist who writes the No Place Like Home blog for National Geographic. She earned an A.B. in biology, psychology, and dance at Cornell University,[1] worked in a clinical genetics lab at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine,[2] then returned to Cornell for her Ph.D. in genetics and development.[1] She is a 2011 graduate of the Science Communications program at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the daughter of SETI pioneer Frank Drake.[1]
In 2017, Drake won the David N. Schramm Award for High Energy Astrophysics Science Journalism from the High Energy Astrophysics Division of the American Astronomical Society for "Found! Gravitational Waves, or a Wrinkle in Spacetime," which was published on National Geographic’s website on February 11, 2016.[3] In 2019, she received the Jonathan Eberhart Planetary Sciences Journalism Award for her article “Pictures of Worlds to Come,” which appeared in the December 6, 2018, issue of Nature.[4]
References
- ^ a b c Nadia Drake '11 joins National Geographic "Phenomena" blog, University of California, Santa Cruz Science Communication Program, April 8, 2014, retrieved 2017-11-20
- ^ Zimmer, Carl (March 10, 2014). "Please Welcome Nadia Drake | the Newest Member of Phenomena | Carl Zimmer". Archived from the original on May 23, 2019. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
- ^ "The David N. Schramm Award for High Energy Astrophysics Science Journalism | High Energy Astrophysics Division". head.aas.org. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
- ^ "2019 Prize Recipients | Division for Planetary Sciences". dps.aas.org. Retrieved 2019-05-31.