Nadia Drake (born July 6, 1980) is an American science journalist and is the interim Physics Editor at Quanta Magazine.[1] Previously, she was a contributing writer at National Geographic.
Nadia Meghann Drake | |
|---|---|
| Born | July 6, 1980 |
| Education | Cornell University (AB, PhD) University of California, Santa Cruz (MS) |
| Occupation | Science journalist |
| Parent | Frank Drake (father) |
Early life and education
editBy 2002 Drake had earned an AB in biology, psychology, and dance at Cornell University.[2]
She returned to Cornell for her PhD in genetics and developmental biology in 2009.[2] Her PhD thesis is entitled Phenotypic consequences of imprinting perturbations at Rasgrf1 in mouse.[3]
In 2011 she graduated from the Science Communication (SciCom) program at UC Santa Cruz, with a Master of Science degree.[citation needed]
Career
editDrake worked in a clinical genetics lab at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine while she was studying her PhD in genetics.[4]
During her residence at the UCSC's SciCom program, she was a reporting intern for the Santa Cruz Sentinel, San Jose's The Mercury News, and Nature.[citation needed]
Afterwards she moved to Washington, D.C. for an internship at Science News, which turned into a job as the magazine's astronomy reporter.[citation needed]
Drake then returned to the San Francisco Bay Area for a science reporting job at Wired.[citation needed]
She has been a freelance contributor to The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Wired, and other publications. [citation needed]
In 2024 Drake joined the board of directors of the SETI Institute as observer.[5]
Book
editDrake is the author of Little Book of Wonders: Celebrating the Gifts of the Natural World (National Geographic Books, 2016).[citation needed]
Awards and honours
edit- In 2016 Drake received the Jonathan Eberhart Planetary Sciences Journalism Award for her article "Scientists in Flying Telescope Race to Intercept Pluto's Shadow," which appeared July 3, 2015, on National Geographic's website.[6]
- In 2017 she won the David N. Schramm Award for High Energy Astrophysics Science Journalism from the High Energy Astrophysics Division of the American Astronomical Society for "Found! Gravitational Waves, or a Wrinkle in Spacetime" which was published on National Geographic's website on February 11, 2016.[7]
Personal life
editDrake is the daughter of SETI pioneer Frank Drake and Amahl Drake (née Shakhashiri).[8]
References
edit- ↑ "Illuminating basic science and math research through public service journalism". Quanta Magazine. Retrieved August 26, 2023.
- 1 2 Nadia Drake '11 joins National Geographic "Phenomena" blog, University of California, Santa Cruz Science Communication Program, April 8, 2014, retrieved November 20, 2017
- ↑ Drake, Nadia Meghann (2010). "Phenotypic consequences of imprinting perturbations at Rasgrf1 in mouse". Ithaca, NY: Cornell University. (See Ras superfamily and Ras-GRF1.)
- ↑ Zimmer, Carl (March 10, 2014). "Please Welcome Nadia Drake | the Newest Member of Phenomena". carlzimmer.com. Retrieved May 31, 2019.
- ↑ "Nadia Drake Joins SETI Institute Board of Directors as Observer". seti.org. August 20, 2024. Retrieved May 4, 2026.
- ↑ Reddy, Vishnu (May 10, 2016). "AAS Division For Planetary Sciences Announces 2016 Prize Winners". Division for Planetary Sciences. American Astronomical Society. Retrieved May 22, 2021.
- ↑ "The David N. Schramm Award for High Energy Astrophysics Science Journalism | High Energy Astrophysics Division". head.aas.org. Retrieved May 31, 2019.
- ↑ Rowan-Robinson, Michael (2022-10-13). "Frank Drake obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 2022-11-06.