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Alumni are listed with their latest known affiliation.

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1986
B. D. Colen, Harvard University news office
Philip J. Hilts, Freelance
Debora MacKenzie, New Scientist
Julie Ann Miller, Science News
Paul Raeburn, Freelance
Jonathan Weiner, Freelance
1987
Sharon Begley, Wall Street Journal
Stephen Doig, Arizona State University
Edward Edelson, Freelance
Peggy Girshman, National Public Radio
Elizabeth Pennisi, Science
Boyce Rensberger, MIT
Robert Stein, The Washington Post
Wendy Williams, Freelance
Gayle Young, National Geographic

1988
Ivan Amato, Freelance
Margo Crabtree, affiliation unknown
Frederic Golden, U. California
Robert Kanigel, MIT
Eric Keller, Freelance
Mary Knudson, Freelance
Warren Kornberg, Freelance
Chris Raymond, ASTC
1989
Margaret DiCanio, Freelance
Mark Jaffe, Freelance
Wallace Kaufman, Freelance
Larry Katzenstein, American Health
Susan Okie, New England Journal of Medicine

1990
Rex Dalton, San Diego Union-Tribune
Robin Henig, Freelance
Bruce Jacobs, Freelance
Bill Krasean, Kalamazoo Gazette
June Kinoshita, Freelance
Keming Kuo, Voice of America
Beth Livermore, Freelance
Michael Skoler, National Public Radio
Bill Snyder, Nashville Banner
Pamela Weintraub, Omni
Rick Weiss, The Washington Post
1991
Sandra Ackerman, Freelance
Pamela Adkins, Merck & Co.
David Baron, The World
Sandra Blakeslee, New York Times
David Bulloch, Freelance
Doron Dagani, Chemical & Engineering News
Blake Edgar, University of California Press
Nancy Ehrlich, Scientific American Medicine
Lew Frederick, Portland Public Schools, OR
Rebecca Kolberg, National Public Radio
Susan Laughlin, affiliation unknown
David Schwartz, Freelance

1992
Stephen Braun, Freelance
Robert Cooke, Freelance
Elizabeth Culotta, Freelance
Heather Dewar, The Baltimore Sun
Donald Frederick, Freelance
David Graham, San Diego Union-Tribune
Jeff Hecht, New Scientist
Rebecca Perl, Freelance
John Schieszer, KPLR-TV, St. Louis, MO
Cindy Schreuder, Chicago Tribune
Joannie Schrof, U.S. News & World Report
1993
Emilia Askari, Detroit Free Press
Cheryl Clark, San Diego Union-Tribune
Andrea (Conley) Early, Marine Biological Laboratory
Bonnie Gordon, Freelance
Peter Lord, Providence Journal
Kim Anthony McDonald, UC, San Diego
Dennis Meredith, Duke University
Michael Milstein, Billings Gazette
Steven Mirsky, Scientific American
Ann Gibbons Scherlis, Science
John Travis, Science News
Barbara Vonarburg, Tages-Anzeiger

1994
Pallava Bagla, Freelance, India
Yvonne Baskin, Freelance
Cara Birrittieri, Reuters
Giovanna Breu, People
Matthew Crenson, Associated Press
Diane Duthie, CBC-TV, Canada
Alberto Enriquez, Mail Tribune
Paul Gasek, Stony Brook Films
Scott LaFee, San Diego Union-Tribune
Ed Regis, Freelance
Richard Saltus, Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Richard Stone, Science
Mutsumi Yoshida, Freelance
David Zimmerman, PROBE
1995
Laura Beil, Dallas Morning News
David Berreby, Freelance
Jim Dawson, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Bill Dietrich, Freelance
Joshua Fischman, US News & World Report
Vincent Kiernan, New Scientist
Kim Motylewski, National Public Radio
Gary Robbins, Orange County Register
John Schwartz, The New York Times
James Shreeve, Freelance
Ruth SoRelle, Baylor College of Medicine
Traci Watson, U.S. News & World Report
Mark Wheeler, Freelance

1996
Leigh Fenly, San Diego Union-Tribune
Karen Fox, Freelance
Josie Glausiusz, Discover
Kevin Krajick, Freelance
Richard Lipkin, Freelance
Kathleen McAuliffe, Freelance
Ridgely Ochs, Newsday
Wallace Ravven, UCSF
Kathy Sawyer, Freelance
Julie Titone, The Spokesman-Review
Lisa Seachrist, Freelance
Mark Ward, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
1997
Marc Airhart, Earth & Sky Radio Series
Rita Baron-Faust, WCBS NewsRadio 88
Steven Benowitz, Thomas Jefferson Univ.
Lynne Cherry, Author of children’s books
Carol Ezzell, Freelance
John Fleischman, Am. Soc. Cell Biology
Ronny Frishman, INQUIRY
Marguerite Holloway, Scientific American
Meredith Small, Freelance
Terra Ziporyn, Freelance

1998
Monica Allen, The Standard-Times, New Bedford
Kevin Carmody, deceased
Thomas Carney, Des Moines Register
Randall Edwards, Columbus Dispatch
Don Finley, San Antonio Express-News
Joel Greenberg, The Los Angeles Times
Ralph Haurwitz, Austin American-Statesman
Diedtra Henderson, Boston Globe
Edie Lau, Sacramento Bee
Larry Proulx, International Herald Tribune
Frank Roylance, Baltimore Sun
Angela Swafford, Mas Vida/CBS
Diane Toomey, NPR’s Living on Earth
Ulysses Torassa, San Francisco Chronicle
Karin Vergoth, NPR’s Science Friday
Joby Warrick, The Washington Post
Philip Yam, Scientific American
1999
David Ballingrud, St. Petersburg Times
Todd Bates, Asbury Park Press
Perry Beeman, The Des Moines Register
Michael K. Burns, The Baltimore Sun
Nancy Cohen, Freelance
Lori Cuthbert, Discovery Channel Online
Lisa Eckelbecker, Worcester Telegram & Gazette
James Erickson, Arizona Daily Star
Daniel Grossman, Freelance
Cheryl Hogue, Chemical & Engineering News
Carolyn Lesser, Author of children’s books
Barbara Moran, NOVA
Noreen Parks, Freelance
Mindy Pennybacker, The Green Guide
Carol Potera, Freelance
Graciela Rogerio, WABC-TV
Gretel Schueller, Freelance
Alexandra Witze, The Dallas Morning News

2000
Kevin Begos, Winston-Salem Journal
Elia Ben-Ari, BioScience
Cynthia Berger, Finger Lakes Productions
Seth Borenstein, Knight Ridder Newspapers
Leo Enright, BBC
Dan Fagin, Newsday
Ken Garber, Freelance
Jessica Gorman, American Association for Cancer Research
William Hathaway, Hartford Courant
Laura Helmuth, Science
Mike Mansur, Kansas City Star
Roger Martin, University of Kansas
Vivien Marx, Freelance
Gianna Milano, Mondadori Publishing Company
Sasha Nemecek, Scientific American
David Poulson, Booth Newspapers
Sonya Senkowsky, Anchorage Daily News
Bari Scott, SoundVision Productions
Laura Tangley, National Wildlife
2001
Christopher Anderson, San Antonio Express-News
Hannah Bonner, Freelance Illustrator
Dorian Devins, Freelance
Kevin Fitzgerald, Freelance
Diedtra Henderson, Boston Globe
Mari Jensen, Tucson Citizen
Aries Keck, Freelance
David Kestenbaum, NPR
Subhadra Menon, Freelance
Melissa Mertl, BioMedNet
Steve Mirsky, Scientific American
Kerstin Osterberg, Ny Teknik
Christina Reed, Geotimes
Antonio Regalado, Wall Street Journal
Andromeda Romano-Lax, Freelance
Christine Soares, Freelance
Volker Steger, Freelance Photographer
Lori Valigra, Freelance

2002
Ruth Helena Bellinghini, Freelance
David Berreby, Freelance
Agnieszka Biskup, Freelance
Jennifer Bogo, Popular Mechanics
Kandice Carter, Science Update
Dale Dempsey, Dayton Daily News
Katherine Griffen, Freelance
A.J. Hostetler, Richmond Times-Dispatch
Robert King, The Palm Beach Post
Jeremy Manier, Chicago Tribune
Diran Onifade, Nigerian Television Authority, Lagos
Rebecca Perry, Los Angeles Times
Mary Lou Reker, Library of Congress
Vikki Valentine, National Public Radio Online
Gary Wisby, Chicago Sun-Times
2003
Gino Del Guercio, Documentary filmmaker
Elizabeth DeVita, Freelance
Nicola Jones, Reporter, Nature
Andrew Jordan, Freelance
Sanjay Kumar, Freelance, India
Sharon Levy, Freelance
Naomi Lubick, Freelance
Erik Mellgren, Ny Teknik, Sweden
Amanda Onion, ABCNEWS.com
Jordi Ortega, Freelance reporter-producer
David Perlman, San Francisco Chronicle
John Ryan, Freelance
Ilsa Setziol, Southern California Public Radio
Natasha Singer, Outside Magazine
Wendy Wolfson, Freelance

2004
John Carey, BusinessWeek
Catherine Clabby, News & Observer
Rebecca Clarren, Freelance
Graham Collins, Scientific American
Adele Conover, Freelance
Elizabeth Cooney, Telegram & Gazette
Elizabeth Grossman, Freelance
Karen Heyman, Freelance
Diana Kenney, Cape Cod Times
Jacqueline Mow, Freelance
Eugene Russo, Freelance
2005
James Bruggers, The Courier-Journal
Ingfei Chen, Freelance
Herton Escobar, O Estado de S. Paulo, Brazil
Helen Fields, U.S. News & World Report
Rosanna Hansen, Freelance
Hannah Hoag, Freelance
Kristan Hutchinson, The Antarctic Sun
Taro Mitamura, NHK (Japan)
Liza Mundy, The Washington Post
Lisa Rossi, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Mike Stark, The Billings Gazette
Jeff Tollefson, Santa Fe New Mexican
Sarah Zielinski, Journal of the National Cancer Institute

2006
Marc Airhart, Earth & Sky
Anton Caputo, San Antonio Express News
Allan Coukell, WBUR-FM
Mary Engel, Los Angeles Times
Richard Hollingham, BBC
Susan Kruglinski, Discover magazine
Jim Metzner, Pulse of the Planet
Natasha Mitchell, Australian Broadcasting Corp.
Molly Murray, The News Journal
Gary Robbins, Orange County Register
Susanne Rust, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Corinna Wu, AAAS Science Update
2007
E. Anne Bolen, Geotimes
Andrea Cross, Freelance producer
Richard Friebe, FAZ
Jude Isabella, YES magazine
Corie Lok, Nature Network Boston
Brendan Maher, Nature
Stephanie Nano, Associated Press
Sally Palmer, BBC Focus Magazine
Rosanne Skirble, Voice of America
Peter Thomson, PRI's Living on Earth
Tetsuro Yamada, Yomiuri Shimbun