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12 April 2006 New York Times science writer to speak at Longwood Dean was science editor of The New York Times from 1997 to 2003, during which she was responsible for coverage of science, health and medical news in the daily paper and in the weekly Science Times section. She also has been assistant and then deputy science editor, as well as deputy editor of the paper’s Washington bureau. Her first book, Against the Tide: The Battle for America’s Beaches, published in 1999, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. She is working on a book about the misuse of scientific information in American public life. Dean is a lecturer in Harvard University’s Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences. As a fellow at the Kennedy School of Government in 2003-2004, she taught in Harvard’s program on Environmental Science and Public Policy. The talk, free and open to anyone, is part of the Science for Citizen Leaders Lecture Series, sponsored by the Department of Natural Sciences. |
Cory Dean, senior science writer for The New York Times, will speak Wednesday, April 19, at 7:30 p.m. in Longwood University’s Wygal Auditorium on Objectivity and Other Problems: Covering Science in the 21st Century.