ABOUT ME
I am a staff writer for a new publication as of Fall 2009, MIT News, covering research developments across a number of disciplines at MIT. I also contribute to our related publication, Technology Review.
Prior to joining MIT News, I worked as an independent journalist, writing about science, technology, and intellectual life. My work has appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, Seed, Slate, Salon, Nature online, Technology Review, and other publications. I have reported about current research and new discoveries, written profiles of scientists and other thinkers, and reviewed books, films, and museum exhibits about science and cultural life.
One ongoing interest is the way scientific knowledge is refracted through culture. I have also written about more explicitly political disputes over science, in fields including evolution, biotechnology, and climate science.
I also write about formal science education, and have participated in science education projects. In 2007 I wrote an educator's guide to evolution, distributed to schools throughout the country, to accompany "Judgment Day," the critically acclaimed NOVA documentary on the trial over creationism in Dover, Pennsylvania.
My undergraduate degree is from Columbia University in New York, where I studied the history of science. I have a master's degree in history from New York University, where I focused on intellectual history. My work frequently draws on my academic background.
Previously, I worked as a reporter and writer for ABC News in New York. I wrote original pieces for ABCNews.com. I covered technology, science, business, and economics, and spent a year reporting on campaign politics. On many occasions I reported on breaking news for the network. Before that, I worked as an editor at Time Inc. New Media, in New York, and am now based in Massachusetts. Contact me at peterdizikes@gmail.com.
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