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[email protected] Web site: http://carlzimmer.com EDUCATION Yale University B.A. in English, magna cum laude, with distinction in the major, 1987 EXPERIENCE Science writer February 1999-present Author of thirteen books about science. New York Times columnist. National Correspondent, Stat. Contribute award-winning articles, essays, and reviews to magazines and newspapers in- cluding The New York Times, National Geographic, The Atlantic, Scientific American, Time, Discover, Natural History, Science, and Nature. Write “The Loom,” an award- winning blog for National Geographic. Consultant on televisions series, museum exhibits, and web sites. Senior Editor, Discover September 1994-February 1999 Associate Editor, Discover August 1991-September 1994 Researcher/Reporter, Discover September 1989-August 1991. FELLOWSHIPS Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant for Public Understanding of Science and Technology, 2017 Osher Fellowship, California Academy of Sciences, 2014 Poynter Fellowship, Yale University. Invited speaker in Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, April 2010 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant for Public Understanding of Science and Technology, 2006 Poynter Fellowship, Yale University, 2005. Invited speaker in Department of Psychology. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 2002 Carl Zimmer CV, p.2 HONORS Finalist, National Magazine Award (Video), 2017 The Stephen Jay Gould Prize, 2016 (Awarded by the Society for the