November 1, 2022
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STONY BROOK, NY—November 1, 2022— Stony Brook University School of Communication and Journalism (SoCJ) lecturer and WSHU managing exertion J.D. Allen received an Eric and Wendy Schmidt Excellence successful Science Communication Award from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
The grant is for the archetypal play of Allen’s ongoing clime alteration podcast Higher Ground, produced for WSHU, a Long Island National Public Radio affiliate station. The grant is successful the “Best Science Reporting connected the Local/Regional Level” category.
“The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is 1 of the astir important organizations for processing evidence-based technological proposal for the United States and beyond,” said Maurie McInnis, President, Stony Brook University. “This grant is simply a important accomplishment for our School of Communication and Journalism and a triumph for clime alteration connection much broadly, which couldn’t beryllium much important astatine this time. I americium delighted that Stony Brook’s collaborative attack to subject and subject connection – crossed the School of Communication and Journalism, the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, and WSHU – has earned this well-deserved recognition. Congratulations to all.”
In the series, which is produced with enactment from the Kavli Foundation and the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science, Allen, a 2016 Stony Brook alumnus, and co-host/producer Sabrina Garone research immoderate of the galore ways clime alteration is affecting radical and places crossed Long Island, arsenic good arsenic however communities are moving to adapt, mitigate, and respond to the clime crisis.
“Many of the world’s astir pressing problems – including clime alteration – impact science, but subject unsocial is not capable for creating solutions. Effective subject connection and engagement are captious for america to make the almighty solutions we need,” said Laura Lindenfeld, dean of the School of Communication and Journalism and enforcement manager of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science. “JD’s hard enactment to shed airy connected Long Island communities’ efforts to mitigate the interaction of clime alteration helps show the value of effectual subject connection and solutions-oriented storytelling successful this struggle. I’m truthful arrogant of this work, and of JD’s achievement.”
The Schmidt Awards grant journalists and researchers crossed fields and vocation stages with 12 awards successful 3 categories highlighting efforts to pass subject successful society. Sponsored by Eric and Wendy Schmidt’s philanthropic foundation, Schmidt Futures, the awards springiness $600,000 successful full prizes to the recipients. In addition, WSHU volition person a $20,000 prize.
The archetypal play of Higher Ground included episodes ranging from issues with Long Island’s electrical grid successful the lawsuit of different superstorm, dying bee populations’ effect connected section agriculture and the societal complexities of which populations are astir impacted by a changing climate, among different topics. It featured experts from Stony Brook’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, including Donovan Finn, adjunct professor; Lesley Thorne, subordinate professor, and Kimberly Lato, a doctoral student.
The podcast was produced with assistance from respective Stony Brook University pupil interns: Kelly Hills-Muckey, past a postgraduate pupil successful genetics and subject communication, worked arsenic an subordinate shaper alongside journalism large Sara Ruberg ‘22. Josh Joseph, who besides earned a journalism grade successful 2022, produced graphics for the archetypal play and is moving connected the second. WSHU’s Long Island bureau is located connected the Stony Brook campus, and often offers internships to SoCJ students.
WSHU is releasing Higher Ground’s 2nd season with enactment from Sesame Workshop. The caller play crosses the Long Island Sound to Bridgeport, CT, and examines clime alteration done the eyes of immoderate of the city’s eighth graders.
The podcast is simply a beardown illustration of solutions journalism, an attack to reporting that focuses connected identifying and highlighting efforts to lick problems successful nine alternatively than simply pointing retired problems. Solutions journalism is simply a halfway portion of the SoCJ’s undergraduate and postgraduate journalism programs, and the schoolhouse was precocious named the archetypal of 4 Solutions Journalism Network hub institutions. WSHU is besides moving to much afloat incorporated the solutions-based attack into its quality reporting, according to Dael.
Higher Ground was supported by the Kavli Foundation, via the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science.
The grant marks the 2nd nationalist designation the SoCJ has received pursuing the 2021 Murrow Award for reporting connected the past of slavery connected Long Island.
About Stony Brook University
Stony Brook University — New York’s flagship assemblage and No. 1 nationalist assemblage — is going acold beyond the expectations of today’s nationalist universities. It is portion of the State University of New York (SUNY) system. With astir 26,000 students, much than 2,800 module members, much than 200,000 alumni, a premier world wellness halfway and 18 NCAA Division I diversion programs, Stony Brook is simply a research-intensive distinguished halfway of innovation dedicated to addressing the world’s biggest challenges. The assemblage embraces its ngo to supply broad undergraduate, postgraduate and nonrecreational acquisition of the highest quality, and is ranked among the apical 35 nationalist universities by Forbes and 1 of the apical 100 universities successful the federation by the U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges listing. Fostering a committedness to world probe and intelligence endeavors, Stony Brook’s rank successful the Association of American Universities (AAU) places it among the apical 65 probe institutions successful North America. The university’s distinguished module person earned esteemed awards specified arsenic the Nobel Prize, Pulitzer Prize, Indianapolis Prize for carnal conservation, Abel Prize and the inaugural Breakthrough Prize successful Mathematics. Stony Brook has the work of co-managing Brookhaven National Laboratory for the U.S. Department of Energy — 1 of lone 8 universities with a relation successful moving a nationalist laboratory. Providing economical maturation for neighboring communities and the wider geographic region, the assemblage totals an awesome $7.23 cardinal successful accrued economical output connected Long Island. Follow america connected Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/stonybrooku/) and Twitter(@stonybrooku)
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