September 17, 2008
For Immediate Release
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Utah Valley University will host New York Times reporter Andrew Revkin Sept. 18, from 10-11:15 a.m. in UVU’s Student Center (SC 213B). Revkin’s keynote address is titled, “The Hot Seat: Making Sense of Climate Change, from the North Pole to the White House.”
Revkin, one of America's most honored science writers, was invited to UVU as part of the Annual Ethics and Public Policy Symposium, which is focusing on the topic, “Science, Government & Society: Policy for the Common Good.”
“I am excited [Revkin] is coming,” said Joseph Watkins, UVU student body president. “Its fun to have someone with his expertise come and speak to the students here; we’ll get one-on-one from a professional, that’s not something that happens very often.”
Having spent nearly 25 years covering subjects that range from Hurricane Katrina and the Asian tsunami to the assault on the Amazon, Revkin’s most recent success is found in the Arctic, particularly the climate change at the North Pole.
In 2003, his climate coverage won the National Academies Communication Award for print journalism, an award that was presented to him by the nation’s pre-eminent scientific body. Then, in 2005, one of his Arctic images won an Award of Excellence in the Pictures of the Year International photojournalism competition.
“He has been reporting on the environment for The New York Times since 1995, a job that has taken him to the Arctic three times in three years,” notes Revkin’s biography.
He is also a man of firsts. He was the first Times reporter to file stories and photos from the sea ice around the Pole in 2003. Two years later he filed the first daily podcasts for the Times during the climate talks in Montreal, a running news event.
Revkin is a two-time winner of the Science Journalism Award of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, recipient of the Investigative Reporters & Editors Award and author of several books.
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