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Last Updated:
09/29/2004
Public Service Award
Recipients: 1998-2004
2004
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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."
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2004
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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."
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2003
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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."
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2003
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[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."
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2003
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[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."
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2002
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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."
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2002
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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."
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2001
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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."
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2001
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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."
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2000
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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"
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2000
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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"
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1999
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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."
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1999
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"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."
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