Time Magazine’s Lemonick to be writer in residence

Michael Lemonick, an award-winning author and a science writer for Time magazine, will be the university science writer in residence for fall 2000.

Lemonick, who’s written 32 science-related cover stories for Time and two books about astronomy and cosmology, will spend a week on the Madison campus working with students, faculty and staff.

As a part of his visit, Lemonick will deliver a free public lecture, “Exploring Alien Worlds,” Tuesday, Oct. 31 at 4 p.m. in the Memorial Union (check Today in the Union for a room number). Lemonick’s talk will focus on the intersection of science journalism and the search for extraterrestrial life.

Lemonick writes about all areas of science and has received several professional honors, including the 1999 American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award and two awards for distinguished magazine writing from the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

As an author, Lemonick has written extensively about astronomy in his 1998 book, “Other Worlds: The Search for Life in the Universe” and his 1993 work “The Light at the Edge of the Universe: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Cosmology.”

Before joining Time as a senior writer, Lemonick was executive editor of Discover magazine, and a senior editor of Science Digest.

Lemonick will begin his week on the UW–Madison campus beginning Oct. 30. He will spend most of his time in the classroom, working with students, faculty and staff interested in science writing.

The Science Writer in Residence Program, now in its fourteenth year, was established with the support of the Brittingham Trust. It continues with support from the UW Foundation and has brought to campus many of the nation’s leading science writers, including three whose work subsequently earned them the Pulitzer Prize, journalism’s most coveted award.

The program is sponsored by the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the office of University Communications.