Science Writing Symposium
January 21, 8 p.m.
 
K.C. Cole
 
K.C. Cole is the author, most recently, of Mind Over Matter: Conversations with the Cosmos, published by Harcourt in April 2003. She is a science writer for the Los Angeles Times and science commentator for Pasadena Public Radio (KPCC). Her previous books include: The Hole in the Universe: How Scientists Peered Over the Edge of Emptiness and Found Everything; The Universe and the Teacup: The Mathematics of Truth and Beauty and First You Build a Cloud: Reflections on Physics as a Way of Life. She has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsday, Esquire, Newsweek, Saturday Review, Ms., and many other publications.

Ms. Cole has taught at UCLA, Yale and Wesleyan universities, and been a fellow at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute and the Exploratorium. Her recent honors include the American Institute of Physics Science Writing prize in 1995; the Los Angeles Times award for deadline reporting, 1996; the Skeptics' Society Edward R. Murrow Award for Thoughtful Coverage of Scientific Controversies in 1998; Los Angeles Times Pulitzer Prize nomination 1998; Los Angeles Times award for best explanatory journalism, 1999 and the Elizabeth A. Wood Science Writing Award from the American Crystallographic Association, 2001.