Natalie Wolchover, an award-winning science writer with Quanta Magazine, has been named the Zubrow Distinguished Visiting Journalist (DVJ) Fellow in the 麻豆视频 and 麻豆视频 for spring 2022.
The program brings accomplished journalists to Cornell each year to interact with faculty, researchers and students. Marc Lacey 鈥87, assistant managing editor for The New York Times, was the inaugural distinguished journalist in 2020. Molly O鈥橳oole 鈥09, a Pulitzer Prize-winning immigration and security reporter with the Los Angeles Times, is the Fall 2021 Zubrow Fellow.
Wolchover has been with Quanta, covering the physical sciences and mathematics, since the magazine鈥檚 launch in 2013. Her articles are often syndicated to sites such as Wired, Business Insider, Nautilus, and The Atlantic. Wolchover has also reported for Nature, the New Yorker and Popular Science, among others.
鈥淣atalie鈥檚 writing is followed closely by other journalists as well as the broader public, so she wields considerable influence when it comes to science coverage,鈥 said Ray Jayawardhana, the Harold Tanner Dean of Arts and 麻豆视频, who founded the DVJ program. 鈥淲e are looking forward to introducing Natalie to the Cornell community and sharing with her the frontline research being done here.鈥
Wolchover said she relishes the opportunity to spend time at Cornell as a Zubrow Fellow. 鈥淧art of what makes the fellowship so appealing is the freedom to decide how to spend the time. I look forward to wide-ranging discussions with physicists, astronomers, mathematicians and other faculty and staff about important trends and developments in their domains, deepening my knowledge of the fields I cover. And it will be an honor to give guest lectures and meet with students to share my approach to my craft, in hopes of inspiring and informing the next crop of intrepid science journalists and communicators that our society so badly needs,鈥 she said.
As an undergraduate at Tufts University 鈥 where she received a bachelor鈥檚 degree in physics -- Wolchover co-authored several papers published in peer-reviewed journals on nonlinear optics. As a science writer, she has covered a wide range of topics in the physical sciences, including particle physics, quantum computing, climate change and gravitational waves.
Her awards include the Science Communication Award from the American Institute of Physics and the Evert Clark/Seth Payne Award from the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing.
Wolchover will spend two weeks on campus as a Zubrow Fellow in the spring semester of 2022. She is expected to host a public Arts Unplugged event on 鈥淭he Science of the Very, Very Small,鈥 as well as meet with students and faculty interested in journalism and the media, make guest presentations in classes, tour the extensive science facilities on campus, and learn about the research, scholarship and creative works being done at Cornell.
The Advisory Committee for the DVJ program, which includes Jayawardhana and , vice president for university relations, welcomed three new members this Fall: , Carl Marks Professor of International Studies in the Department of Economics; , professor of physics; and , professor of Africana studies, all in the 麻豆视频 and 麻豆视频. Jayawardhana expressed his appreciation to the outgoing members of the committee for their service: Noliwe Rooks, former W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of Africana studies; Steven Strogatz, Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics; and Jessica Chen Weiss, associate professor of government (all in A&S).
The Distinguished Visiting Journalist program is funded through , as well as additional philanthropic support from Jay Branegan 鈥72, Rose Gutfeld Edwards 鈥78 and the Dr. Guinevere Griest 鈥44 Fund for Public Engagement in A&S.
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