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 ''Science News (SN)'' is an American bi-weekly magazine devoted to articles about new scientific and technical developments, typically gleaned from recent scientific and technical journals. History ''Science News'' has been published since ...

''.

Education

In 2014, Conover earned her Ph.D. in physics from the

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park, Chicago, Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chic ...

. She then transitioned from science to scientific journalism via the AAAS Mass Media Fellowship at the

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel The ''Milwaukee Journal Sentinel'' is a daily morning broadsheet printed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where it is the primary newspaper. It is also the largest newspaper in the state of Wisconsin, where it is widely distributed. It is currently ...

Career

In 2015, while she was an intern at ''

Science Science is a systematic endeavor that Scientific method, builds and organizes knowledge in the form of Testability, testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earli ...

'' magazine, Conover won the D.C. Science Writers Association's 2015 Newsbrief Award in the Writing category for her 250-word article ScienceSho
“How to prevent a sheep traffic jam,"
in which she details crowd behavior shared between sheep and humans. In 2018, she won the same award for her ''

'' article
“How ravens caused a LIGO data glitch,”
making her the only person to receive two Newsbrief awards. In 2015, she began writing news for the American Physical Society. In 2016, she joined ''

'' as a scientific journalist, covering physics news.

Personal life

Her father is marine biologist and professor

David O. Conover David Olmstead Conover (born August 26, 1953) is an American marine biologist and professor in the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at Stony Brook University. He was the Vice President for Research at Stony Brook University and operations ...

and her mother, Margaret Conover, is a botanist and science educator. Her older brother,

Adam Conover Adam Conover (born March 2) is an American comedian, writer, voice actor, and television host. He created and hosted the half-hour truTV show '' Adam Ruins Everything'', based on the CollegeHumor series of the same name. He was also the host of ...

, is a comedian and host of ''

Adam Ruins Everything ''Adam Ruins Everything'' is an American educational comedy television series starring Adam Conover that ran from 2015 through 2019 on TruTV. The series endeavors to debunk common misconceptions held by the public on a variety of topics. Premise ...

''.

References

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