Center for Ethics Presents Talk with Nicholas Wade
The Muhlenberg College Center for Ethics will host science reporter and distinguished author Nicholas Wade on Wednesday, March 2, 2011 at 7 p.m. in Miller Forum, Moyer Hall.Monday, February 21, 2011 11:45 AM
The event is free and open to the public. Wade is a British-born scientific reporter, editor and author who currently writes for the Science Times section of The New York Times. His book Before the Dawnreceived a 2007 Science-in-Society Journalism Award.
Wade worked for Nature, a weekly scientific magazine based in London, from 1967 to 1971, becoming deputy editor and Washington correspondent. In 1971 he joined the news staff of Science, a weekly scientific journal published in Washington, and in 1982 became a member of the editorial board of The New York Times, writing editorials on science, health, the environment and military technology.
He was science editor of The New York Times from 1990 to 1996, and has been a science reporter at the Times since 1997.
Wade is the author of several books, including The Ultimate Experiment, The Nobel Duel, Betrayers of the Truth (written with William J. Broad), A World Beyond Healing, Lifescript, and Before the Dawn.
He was born in 1942 in Aylesbury, England, and educated at Eton and King’s College, Cambridge. Wade received a BA degree in natural sciences in 1964.
This talk is part of a year-long series of events, Science and Sensibility: Studying Nature as a Human Endeavor, directed by Dr. Bruce Wightman, Professor of Biology. For more information on the series, please visit http://www.muhlenberg.edu/main/aboutus/cfe/
