Emily Conover

Emily Conover is an American science journalist, best known for being the only two-time winner of the D.C. Science Writers Association's Newsbrief award. As of 2016, she has been a reporter for American bi-weekly magazine Science News.

Emily Conover

Education

In 2014, Conover earned her Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago. She then transitioned from science to scientific journalism via the AAAS Mass Media Fellowship at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.^[1]

Career

In 2015, while she was an intern at Science magazine, Conover won the D.C. Science Writers Association's 2015 Newsbrief Award in the Writing category for her 250-word article ScienceShot “How to prevent a sheep traffic jam," in which she details crowd behavior shared between sheep and humans.^[2] In 2018, she won the same award for her Science News article, “How ravens caused a LIGO data glitch,” making her the only person to receive two Newsbrief awards.^[1]

In 2015, she began writing news for the American Physical Society. In 2016, she joined Science News as a scientific journalist, covering physics news.^{[3][4][5][6][7][8][9]}

Personal life

Her father is marine biologist and professor David O. Conover and her mother, Margaret Conover, is a botanist and science educator. Her older brother, Adam Conover, is a comedian and host of Adam Ruins Everything.^[10]

References

1. "Winners Announced for Tenth Annual DCSWA Newsbrief Award – D.C. Science Writers Association".
2. Korte, Andrea. "Science Article Wins Newsbrief Award | American Association for the Advancement of Science". www.aaas.org. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
3. "Scientists and Journalists Square Off Over 'Getting it Right'". Undark Magazine. 1 March 2018.
4. Machemer, Theresa. "Scientists Are Detecting More Gravitational Waves Than Ever Before". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
5. "Let's learn about the periodic table". Science News for Students. 15 April 2020.
6. "Notre Dame fire investigation to reveal secrets from its medieval history". Aleteia — Catholic Spirituality, Lifestyle, World News, and Culture. 19 January 2020.
7. "Astronomers discover two giant, high-energy 'bubbles' at the center of the Milky Way". www.pbs.org.
8. Wu, Katherine J. "Super-Strong Electric Forces May Have Helped Tiny Clumps of Dust Seed the Planets". Smithsonian Magazine.
9. "Google's 72-Qubit Quantum Computer Could Make History".
10. "LI's Adam Conover returns for season 2 of truTV's 'Adam Ruins Everything'".