Seminar Announcement
Title:
“Writing for Science Magazine”
“Science in Forbidding Places”
Speaker:
Mr. Richard Stone
Asia Editor
Science Magazine
Date & Time: March 2, 2009 (Monday), 15:00 – 16:30
Venue:
HG01
Audience:
Open to Faculty, Students, and General Public
Abstract
“Science in Forbidding Places”
In an illustrated lecture, Richard Stone will talk about his challenges and adventures in
reporting science stories in some of the most forbidding corners of the globe. Stone, Asia
editor for Science Magazine and contributor to National Geographic Magazine, will describe
searching for woolly mammoth remains and tracking down a killer disease in Siberia, looking
for plutonium at the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site in Kazakhstan, exploring the destroyed
Chernobyl nuclear reactor, and visiting scientific labs in Iran and North Korea. He will
discuss the process of finding and reporting science-based stories in these and other far-flung
places, and describe the opening of Science’s first news bureau in Beijing.
Biography
Richard Stone is Asia News Editor of Science, the international weekly magazine. Stone has
reported on non-proliferation and environmental issues from some of the most forbidding
corners of the world, including North Korea and Iran. He spent the 2004-2005 academic year
as a Fulbright scholar in Kazakhstan, conducting an in-depth study of the legacy of the
Semipalatinsk nuclear test site, and now lives in Beijing. In addition to his work for Science,
Stone has written for National Geographic, Discover, and Smithsonian magazines and is the
author of “Mammoth: The Resurrection of an Ice Age Giant” (Perseus, 2001).