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'1491' wins 2006 Best Book Award from the National Academies

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Newspaper/Magazine/Internet finalists:

  • Michelle Nijhuis, writer, High Country News, for her series "Hot Times: Global Warming in the West"

  • Anthony Wood, reporter, The Philadelphia Inquirer, for "A Mighty Stream"

TV/Radio finalists:

  • Sarah Holt, producer/director, for "Rise of the Superbugs," a co-production of WGBH/NOVA and Vulcan Productions

  • Clayton Sandell, producer, and Bill Blakemore and Jay Lamonica, co-producers, for "Global Warming & Extinction," ABC News

The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative was created in 2003 to encourage interdisciplinary research and is funded by a 15-year, $40 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation. The initiative also sponsors conferences to bring together outstanding researchers from many fields to pose new questions and share ideas for cross-disciplinary projects.

The award recipients will be honored during this year's Futures Initiative conference, "Smart Prosthetics: Exploring Assistive Devices for the Body and Mind," to be held Nov. 9-11 in Irvine, Calif. The conference will bring together selected researchers who specialize in prosthetics to explore how this field intersects with disciplines across science, engineering, and medicine. Conference participants will have the opportunity to compete for grants to pursue new lines of cross-disciplinary research.

The winners of the communication awards were selected by a committee of 10 judges:

  • Barbara J. Culliton (committee chair and member, Institute of Medicine), journalist, former deputy editor, Nature, and former news editor, Science

  • Donald Kennedy (committee vice chair and member, National Academy of Sciences and Institute of Medicine), editor in chief, Science

  • Deborah Blum, professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Unive
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Contact: Maureen O'Leary
news@nas.edu
202-334-2138
The National Academies
29-Sep-2006


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