Richard Stone
| Work History | |
| July 2005 – present | Asia News Editors, Science Magazine Assign and edit articles on Asian science, with a focus on China; manage staff writes in Japan and India and freelancers across the continent. |
| Sept 2004 – July 2005 | Visiting Scholar, Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan As a Fulbright Scholar, lectured at Kazakh National University and researched the legacy of the Semipalatinsk test range in northern Kazakhstan. |
| 2003 – 2004 | Visiting Writer in Science, St. Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge, U.K. Lectured on science and environmental journalism and ran a writing workshop at the University of Cambridge in England. |
| 2000 – 2004 | European News Editor, Science Magazine Assigned and edited articles on European science; managed staff writers across the continent; wrote on Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, including Russia, specializing in nonproliferation of nuclear and biological weapons. |
| 1997 – 2000 | Deputy News Editor, Science Magazine Assigned and edited articles on environmental and behavioral sciences; wrote on the former Soviet Union; managed ScienceNOW, a daily Web news service. |
| 1995 – 1996 | Lecturer, Rostov State University, Russia As a Fulbright Scholar, taught science and environmental journalism. Edited a student newspaper on environmental issues in southwestern Russia. |
| 1991 – 1995 | Writer, Science Magazine Covered environmental science and biotechnology; edited ScienceScope, a weekly column of science policy news briefs.
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| Education | |
| 1991 | M.S., science communication, University of California, Santa Cruz |
| 1998 | B.S., biology, Cornell University
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| Honors | |
| 2004 – 2005 | Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |
| 2004 – 2005 | Fulbright Scholar, Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan |
| 2002 | American Institute of Biological Sciences’ Science Writing Award |
| 2001 | Pan American Health Organization’s International Journalism Award |
| 2001 | Walter Sullivan Science Writing Award from the American Geophysical Union |
| 1997 | Arthur Burns Fellowship at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in Germany |
| 1995 | Evert Clark Award for Science Journalism |
| 1994 | Woods Hole Marine Biology fellowship to study molecular biology and to visit the Toolik Lake long-ecological research site in northern Alaska |