Photo by Doug Ramsey (1999)
Peter N. Spotts
9 Martha's Way
Franklin, MA 02038
508-520-0023
pspotts@alum.mit.edu
The Christian Science Monitor -- September 1976 to present
- Science reporter -- September 1994 to present
- Editorial-page editor -- January 1993 to September 1994
- National-news editor -- December 1988 to January 1993
- Editorial writer -- April 1988 to December 1988
- Science correspondent -- February 1987 to April 1988
- Special-projects editor -- June 1986 to February 1987
- Staff editor, national news -- April 1980 to June 1986
- Midwest correspondent (Chicago) -- March 1979 to April 1980
Awards:
- 2003
-- Ocean Science
Journalism Fellowship at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
- 2002 -- Winner of the American Association for the Advancement of Science's Science Journalism Award, small-newspaper category.
- 1999-2000 -- Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
- 1987 -- Council
for Energy Awareness' Forum Award (shared) for a series on the future
of nuclear energy after the Chernobyl disaster.
- 2006-2008 -- Judge for AAAS Science Journalism Award
- 2000-2006 -- Judge for the American Institute of Physics science-writing award (chairman of the judging panel from 2003-2006).
- 2002 -- Member of the screening committee for the Knight Science Journalism Fellowships at MIT.
- 1994 -- Member of advisory committee on the reorganization of publishing activities of The Christian Science Publishing Society.
- Invited speaker/panelist at the National Academy of Sciences (1993), American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting (2002, 2009), American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting (2009).
- B.A. in journalism from the University of Miami (Fla.), cum laude, December 1974
- National Association of Science Writers
- New England Science Writers (Treasurer)
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
- American Geophysical Union
- Phi Kappa Phi scholastic honor society
- Kappa Tau Alpha journalism honor society