Science Writing for the Public: Q&A with Kate Wong

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Science Writing for the Public: Q&A with Kate Wong

Kate Wong is Senior Editor at Scientific American, where she oversees the magazine’s coverage of non-medical biology. She commissions and edits articles from scientists about their own research. And she writes about evolution and ecology. Kate has been covering human origins and vertebrate paleontology for the magazine since 1997. She is also the coauthor, with paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson, of Lucy’s Legacy: the Quest for Human Origins.

Date: 11 May 2021, 16:00
Venue: Live stream link: https://youtu.be/YJNnCJGbfVE
Speaker: Kate Wong (Scientific American)
Organising department: Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology
Organisers: Dr Caroline Phillips (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, Oxford), Dr. Alexander Mielke (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, Oxford), Dr. Alejandra Pascual-Garrido (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, Oxford), Elodie Freymann (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, Oxford), Sophie Berdugo (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, Oxford), Dr Susana Carvalho (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, Oxford)
Part of: Primate Conversations
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Public
This talk features in the following public collections:
- Talks of Interest to Medical Sciences
- Events of interest to Social Sciences
Editor: Sophie Berdugo