PCCW A.D. White Professor-at-Large

2006-2012 honoree Natalie Angier

Natalie Angier is currently a science columnist for The New York Times. Her semi-monthly column is titled "Basics."

At the age of twenty-two she was hired as a founding staff reporter for Discover, the science magazine launched in 1980 by Time Incorporated. Subsequently, over the next decade she served as the senior science writer for Time magazine, editor of the women's business magazine Savvy, and taught at New York University's graduate program in science and environmental reporting. In 1990, Ms. Angier began writing for The New York Times and covered a wide range of scientific topics, which led her to win a Pulitzer Prize in beat reporting the following year. Among these topics were the biology of scorpions, disputes over the Human Genome Project the importance of parasites in evolution and the ubiquitous-ness of philandering in the animal kingdom.

She has authored numerous books, including Natural Obsessions, an inside view of the high-throttle world of cancer research; The Beauty of the Beastly, a hymn to multitudinous, mostly invertebrate creatures; and Women: An Intimate Geography, which celebrates the female body and biology. This book was incorporated into Eve Ensler's Vagina Monologues and was named one of the best books of the year by The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, Talk magazine, People magazine, National Public Radio, the Bloomsbury Literary Review, The Village Voice, the New York Public Library, Publisher's Weekly, the Library Journal and Amazon.com.

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