Paul Raeburn, a former science editor and senior writer at Business Week, will speak at Virginia Tech on “How Science and Technology Media Affects Business” in a seminar open to the public on Monday, Mar. 23 at 4 p.m. in 100 Hancock Hall.
Raeburn is the inaugural guest speaker of the newly funded "Jebson-Nystrom Science and Technology Writer in Residence Endowment” in Virginia Tech’s College of Engineering.
The Student Engineers’ Council is also sponsoring this talk as part of its activities for its celebration of national Engineers’ Week.
From 1996-2003, Raeburn was at Business Week magazine, and before that, he was the science editor and chief science correspondent at The Associated Press.
Raeburn is a commentator for National Public Radio’s Morning Edition, and an occasional guest host of NPR’s Talk of the Nation: Science Friday. He holds the premier role of organizing the international New Horizons in Science Briefings.
Raeburn is the author of the memoir “Acquainted with the Night: A Parent’s Quest to Understand Depression and Bipolar Disorder in His Children.” He also authored “Mars,” published by the National Geographic Society in 1998, and “The Last Harvest,” published by Simon & Schuster in 1995. He has written for The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Psychology Today, The Washington Post, Discover, Popular Science, Child, Self, Technology Review and many other newspapers and magazines.
Raeburn is a past president of the National Association of Science Writers and a recipient of its Science-in-Society Award. He has also received the Associated Press Managing Editors Award for excellence, two Deadline Club awards, two Computer Press Association awards, and the John P. McGovern Award for Excellence in Medical Communications from the American Medical Writers Association. He is an honorary member of Sigma Xi, the scientific research society.
Raeburn has been a journalism fellow at Stanford University, and science-writer-in-residence at the University of Wisconsin and the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received a bachelor's degree in physics. He also studied composition at the Berklee School of Music in Boston, and he plays piano and guitar. Before joining the AP, he worked for the Boston Phoenix and the Lowell (Mass.) Sun.
For more information on Raeburn’s visit, contact Lynn Nystrom at 540 231 4371.
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