Nadia Drake

Nadia Drake is a science journalist who writes the No Place Like Home blog for National Geographic. She earned an A.B. in biology, psychology, and dance at Cornell University,[1] worked in a clinical genetics lab at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine,[2] then returned to Cornell for her Ph.D. in genetics and development.[1] She is a 2011 graduate of the Science Communications program at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the daughter of SETI pioneer Frank Drake.[1]

Nadia Drake
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of California, Santa Cruz,
Cornell University
OccupationScience Journalist

In 2017, Drake won the David N. Schramm Award for High Energy Astrophysics Science Journalism from the High Energy Astrophysics Division of the American Astronomical Society for "Found! Gravitational Waves, or a Wrinkle in Spacetime," which was published on National Geographic’s website on February 11, 2016.[3] In 2019, she received the Jonathan Eberhart Planetary Sciences Journalism Award for her article “Pictures of Worlds to Come,” which appeared in the December 6, 2018, issue of Nature.[4]

References
  1. Nadia Drake '11 joins National Geographic "Phenomena" blog, University of California, Santa Cruz Science Communication Program, April 8, 2014, retrieved 2017-11-20
  2. Zimmer, Carl (March 10, 2014). "Please Welcome Nadia Drake | the Newest Member of Phenomena | Carl Zimmer". Archived from the original on May 23, 2019. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
  3. "The David N. Schramm Award for High Energy Astrophysics Science Journalism | High Energy Astrophysics Division". head.aas.org. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
  4. "2019 Prize Recipients | Division for Planetary Sciences". dps.aas.org. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
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