2004

Oliver Sacks, M.D.
Clinical Professor of Neurology
Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Author
and
Annette Berkovits
Member, NSB Public Service Award Committee

Accepting the Award from Annette Berkovits, member, NSB PSA Committee

"For his enhancement of the international and national public's appreciation of science in our lives through his writings concerning the links between the brain and the mind."

2004

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

[Accepting the Award: Ralph P. Gomory, President]
and
Annette Berkovits
Member, NSB Public Service Award Committee

"For its innovative use of traditional media - books, radio, public television - and its pioneering efforts in theater and commercial television and films to advance public understanding of science and technology."

2003

Kathryn D. Sullivan

President and Chief Executive Officer, Center of Science and Industry
Columbus Ohio
and
Shirley Malcom,
Chair NSB Public Service Award Committee

"For her accomplishments as an explorer of Earth and space, a science educator, and a role models for girls and young women."

2003

[Accepting the Award:
Ben Patrusky,
Excutive Director and
Jerry Bishop, President]
and
Shirley Malcom,
Chair NSB Public Service Award Committee

Council for the Advancement of Science Writing

"For its achievement in bringing together scientists and science writers for the purpose of improving the quality of science news reaching the public."

2003

[Accepting the Award:
Deborah Byrd
and Joel Block,
Producers and Hosts and Ryan Britton,
Executive Director,
Earth and Sky, Inc.]
and
Shirley Malcom,
Chair NSB Public Service Award Committee

Earth & Sky

"For its achievement in broadcasting explanations of research and everyday science to a worldwide audience."

2002

Eugenie C. Scott

Executive Director
National Center for
Science Education

Eugenie C. Scott, 2002 NSB Public Service Awardee (individual) and Paula Apsell, Chair, NSB Public Service Award Committee

"For her promotion of public understanding of the importance of science, the scientific method, and science education and the role of evolution in science education."

2002

Society for Advancement
of Chicanos and Native
Americans in Science

MariaElena Zavalas, President, SACNAS, 2002 NSB Public Service Award recipient (group) and Paula Apsell, Chair, NSB Public Service Award Committee

"For its creative approaches encouraging Latinos and Native Americans to pursue graduate education and careers in science, mathematics, technology, and engineering."

2001

Dava Sobel
East Hampton, New York

Dava Sobel accepting individual NSB Public Service Award from Michael Ambrosino, Chair, NSB Public Service Award Committee

"For her enhancement of the public's understanding of the role of science in our lives and for fostering awareness of science and technology amont broad segments of the general public."

2001

Education Division,
Wildlife Conservation Society,
Bronx Zoo

[Accepting the Award, Annette Berkovits, Senior Vice President-Education, and The Chauncey Stillman Chair in Wildlife Education] from Michael Ambrosino, Chair, NSB Public Service Award Committee

"For fostering awareness of science among broad segments of the population and influencing and encouraging the next generation of life science professionals."

2000

Philip and Phylis Morrison

"For a lifetime of film and radio reporting, writings, especially book reviews in Scientific American, and serving as role models and teachers for generations of students"

2000

Science Service
Washington, DC

"For its pioneering influence on increasing public understanding of science, mathematics and engineering through science fairs, national and international science competitions, and the publication of Science News"

1999

Stephen J. Gould

"For his lifetime of work encompassing the history and methods of science through his research, teaching and communication of science to the public as an author of scientific literature that inspires and educates."

1999

"Bill Nye
the Science Guy",
KCTS-TV, Seattle

"For its masterful presentations of the sciences to the younger generation, thus encouraging and fostering an awareness and appreciation of science and technology."