Ira Flatow

RADIO

§ Science Friday. Executive Producer/Host. Live, weekly science news talk show on Public Radio and the Internet, audience of 2 million people. 1991-Present § Day To Day. Science/Technology reporter, 2003-2006, NPR § Sounds Like Science. Host/Writer. One hour weekly science and technology news magazine. NPR, 1997-1999. § The Future of Medicine. Weekly syndicated radio program about research in health and medicine. 1989 § All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Producer, Science Correspondent, NPR 1971- 1987 § WBFO Radio, Buffalo, NY. News Director, Reporter 1969- 1971

TELEVISION

§ . Co-star in three episodes of CBS Television series, playing himself, 2010, 2013, 2017 § Big Ideas. Host/Interviewer, 4 part series about frontiers of physics. PBS 2003 § Maximum Science. Anchoring round table discussions with scientists about current topics in the news. Cablevision 2001-2004 § The Patent Files. Commentator for a multi-part series about the history of inventions that have changed our lives. The History Channel. 2001 § Destination Future. A four part series about the future of space exploration, urban development, energy and transportation. The Learning Channel. 2000 § Science and Technology News Network. News Director. Writing, editing , overseeing editorial content of weekly science and technology television programming, 1997-1999 § Transistorized! Executive Producer/Host/Writer. One-hour PBS documentary about the invention of the Transistor. Nov, 1999. § Earth Keeping. Host/writer. Four part Television series on environmental issue, PBS/WGBH. 1993 § CBS News: This Morning . CBS News. Science news reporter for morning news program, 1991. § CNBC Your Working Life. CNBC cable. Reported on news relating to the world of hi- tech, 1990. § Inside Eddie Johnson. Nickelodeon. Wrote/edited three part cable TV series explaining human body to teenagers, 1995. § Not Just the News. Fox Network. On-camera expert. Twelve part children’s television series, 1992 § Practical Guide To Environmental Shopping. Host/writer for WQED/PBS special about environmental issues. 1990 § Halley’s Comet Updates. Thirteen part series, PBS/KTCA Minneapolis, MN. 1986 § Newton’s Apple. Host/Writer. Emmy Award winning science television series. 1982- 1987. PBS/KTCA § Alert!. Camera operator, technical assistant, morning news program, KHD-21, 1966-67

WEBCASTS

§ The Great Planet Debate. Neil deGrasse Tyson, Mark Sykes 2008

PUBLICATIONS § Times - Sunday Book Review § Present At The Future: From Evolution to Nanotechnology, Candid and Controversial Conversations on Science and Nature, Author, New York, HarperCollins § They All Laughed... New York, HarperCollins. Author, New York, HarperCollins. Author § The Timetables of Technology. Content writer for CD-Rom, 1997 § Rainbows, Curve Balls and Other Wonders of The Natural World Explained. William Morrow & Co, Author § American Lawyer – Book Review (“Laser”) § Science Digest - "South Pole Science" § TV Guide - "Do You Know...?" § Scholastic News Times - "Diary of an Astronaut" § Current - "Cosmos", "Voyage of the Mimi" § Los Angeles Times - "Computer Hackers" § Woman's Day - "All About Fizz"

RECENT HONORS

§ 2014 - Distinguished Visiting Fellow, University of California, Santa Barbara § 2014 - Doctor of Humanities, SUNY Buffalo, Honorary § 2013 - Doctor of Science In Education, Muhlenberg College, Honorary § 2012 - Isaac Asimov Prize § 2010 - Nierenberg Prize § 2008 - Member Academy of Science and Engineering § 2007 – National Science Teachers Assoc. Faraday Science Communicator Award § 2005 - Sigma Xi Membership § 2005 - National Science Board Public Service Award § 2005 – World Economic Forum, Media Fellow § 2004 – California Nobel Prize Dinner, MC § 2002 – Elizabeth Wood Award, American Crystallographic Assoc. § 2000 – AAAS Science and Society Award § 2000 – Grady Washburn Award § 1999 - Carl Sagan Award - Association of Science Society Presidents § 1996 - The Athena Award - Best On-line Program- SciFri Kids Connection § 1993 - CPB Gold Baton- Talk of the Nation - NPR § 1992 - Women in Communications - Matrix Award Outstanding Communicator

JOURNALIST IN RESIDENCE

§ Harvard Media Fellow – April 2005 § Michigan State University – May, 2002 § University of Wisconsin, Madison - Nov. 1990 § Brookhaven College - April 1989

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

§ National Association of Science Writers § SAG-AFTRA

INVITED SPEAKER

§ The Tech Museum § American Association of Medical Colleges § North American Association of Environmental Educators § American Association for the Advancement of Science § American Medical Association § Hewlett Packard § National Academy of Sciences § Johns Hopkins Univ. § Sun Microsystems § Mass. Inst. of Technology § Harvard University § Medtronic § Google § Culver Academies

EDUCATION § State University of New York, Buffalo, BS, Engineering -1971