Julie Ann Miller

Biography

I am currently the editor of Science News magazine, a 16-page weekly consumer publication with a readership of about 160,000. We maintain a Web site for the magazine and have recently added another Web site called "Science News for Kids." We update both sites weekly.

Science News is produced by a staff that includes 10 writers who each specialize in an area of research. At the start of my career, 27 years ago, I was the life sciences writer at Science News and reported on biology and medicine.

Between my stints at Science News, I served as editor of BioScience magazine, the monthly journal of the American Institute of Biological Sciences. This publication contained both peer-reviewed articles written by scientists and stories by staff and free-lance journalists.

Over the years, I have written freelance articles for many publications—including New Scientist, Trends in Neuroscience, Neuroscience Commentaries, Chemical and Engineering News, Chemistry and Industry, The Baltimore Sun, and The Progressive—and public information brochures for the National Institutes of Health on topics including head injuries, shingles, and stuttering. I’ve also worked on textbooks for Benjamin/Cummings, Elsevier Science, and Simon and Schuster and was the science editor for Find It! Science, a CD-ROM compiling descriptions and reviews of children’s science books.

Originally, I trained as a scientist. I have a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. As I was completing my doctoral degree, I decided to pursue a writing career, so I then obtained an M.A. in Journalism, also from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

I am currently a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and have chaired the AAAS section on general understanding of science. I’ve received the Award for Distinguished Service to Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and served as a science-writer-in-residence there. I’ve also been active in the Council for Science Editors and the National Association of Science Writers.

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