Alec Luhn’s environmental reporting roots attain again to an project for The Badger Herald, throughout his days as a journalism pupil on the College of Wisconsin–Madison. Now an award-winning worldwide freelance reporter, Luhn — nonetheless on the environmental beat — is returning to UW–Madison because the spring’s Sharon Dunwoody Science Journalist in Residence
Luhn will go to campus April 15-17, sharing his experiences and experience with college students, assembly researchers and taking part in a public panel dialogue on journalism’s position because the local weather disaster deepens.
Alec Luhn
The visiting journalist will be a part of embellished, Wisconsin-based investigative reporter Dee Corridor and UW–Madison consultants in vitality coverage and engineered local weather options like carbon seize techniques for a presentation and dialogue, “Past 1.5°C: Masking Controversial Local weather Options.” The occasion, open to the general public, shall be held at 4 p.m. on April 17 within the Multicultural Greek Council Room on the fourth flooring of Memorial Union, 800 Langdon St.
A 2010 UW–Madison graduate and Stoughton native, Luhn has reported for The Atlantic, the Guardian, Nationwide Geographic, The New York Instances, Scientific American, TIME, WIRED, CBS Information radio and VICE Information TV. Now primarily based in London, he has labored from Istanbul and Moscow to cowl an array of environmental- and climate-related tales, together with wildfires, droughts, earthquakes, melting glaciers and worldwide negotiations of local weather coverage.
In 2024, the Nationwide Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medication included Luhn amongst winners of Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communication and his story, “Why Are Alaska’s Rivers Turning Orange?” for Scientific American was among the many American Affiliation for the Development of Sciences Kavli Science Journalism Award winners.
The UW–Madison Science Journalist in Residence program was based in 1986 and is hosted by the College of Journalism and Mass Communication and the Workplace of Strategic Communication. It’s now a part of the Sharon Dunwoody Journalist in Residence program at UW–Madison. The late Dunwoody, a professor of journalism at UW–Madison, co-founded the Science Journalist in Residence program with Terry Devitt, an emeritus director of analysis communications.
This system has hosted nationwide science writers almost each semester, in individual and nearly, together with PBS Eons host Kallie Moore, writer and reporter Ben Goldfarb, Radiolab host Latif Nasser, former Scientific American editor-in-chief Laura Helmuth, and reporter and Pulitzer Prize winner Ed Yong.
