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Canadian
Science Writers' Association Award Archives:
This page features past press releases and a list of former CSWA award winners, dating back to 1972. Other
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2007 Science in Society Journalism Awards Winners Toronto, Ontario, 2007 - The Canadian Science Writers' Association has announced the winners of the national Science in Society Journalism Awards competition to honour outstanding contributions to journalism in the Canadian media during the 2006 calendar year. Each award carries a $1,000 prize value. The 35th annual Science in Society Journalism Awards banquet to honour the 2007 winners was held in June, 2007, at Dawson College in Whitehorse. PRINT News
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HERB LAMPERT STUDENT WRITING AWARD
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Documentaries or Series - Items Over 30 Minutes: Children’s Winner: "Baby Sea Turtles", by Aubrey Lang and Wayne Lynch. Published by Fitzhenry and Whiteside. Youth Winner: "Polaris", ed. Julie Czerneda. Published by Fitzhenry and Whiteside.
General Audience Winner: "Perdre le Nord?," by Dominique Forget. Published by Éditions du Boréal and Névé Éditions.
2006 Science in Society Journalism Awards Winners Toronto, Ontario, 2006 - The Canadian Science Writers' Association has announced the winners of the national Science in Society Journalism Awards competition to honour outstanding contributions to journalism in the Canadian media during the 2006 calendar year. Each award carries a $1,000 prize value. The 34th annual Science in Society Journalism Awards banquet to honour the 2006 winners was held in June 16, 2006, at the University of Western Ontario in London.
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2005 Science in Society Journalism Awards Winners Toronto, Ontario, 2005 - The Canadian Science Writers' Association has announced the winners of the national Science in Society Journalism Awards competition to honour outstanding contributions to journalism in the Canadian media during the 2005 calendar year. Each award carries a $1000 prize value. The 34th annual Science in Society Journalism Awards banquet to honour the 2005 winners will be held June 24, 2006, aboard the Nouvelle Orleans, in St. John's Harbour, Newfoundland. PRINT News
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2004
Science in Society Journalism Awards Winners PRINT News
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2003
Science in Society Short Lists Announced 2003
Short List - Children's Books -Pamela Hickman, Animals and Their Young: How Animals Produce and Care for Their Babies, Kids Can Press. -Adrienne Mason, Bats, Kids Can Press. -Adrienne Mason, Otters, Kids Can Press. -David Suzuki, Sarah Ellis, Salmon Forest, A David Suzuki Foundation Book, Greystone Books, Douglas & McIntyre Publishing Group. 2003
Short List - Youth Books -Dan Bortolotti, Panda Rescue, Firefly Books. -Caroline Fortin, Martine Podesto, Marie-Anne Legault, Marie-Claude Ouellet, Atlas de la météo, Québec Amérique Jeunesse. -David Garrison, Shannon Hunt, Jude Isabella, The Amazing International Space Station, Kids Can Press. -Elin Kelsey, Canadian Dinosaurs, Owl Books/ Maple Tree Press. -Elizabeth MacLeod, Albert Einstein: A Life of Genius, Kids Can Press. -Trudee Romanek, Achoo! The Most Interesting Book You'll Ever Read About Germs, Kids Can Press. -Lyn Thomas, What? What? What? Owl Books/ Maple Tree Press. -John Wilson, Dancing Elephants and Floating Continents, Key Porter Books. -Shirley Woods, Jack: The Story of a Beaver, Fitzhenry & Whiteside. 2003
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- General Audience Books -Kirsty Duncan, Hunting the 1918 Flu: One Scientist's Search for a Killer Virus, University of Toronto Press. -Andrew Heintzman, Evan Solomon, eds., Fueling the Future, House of Anansi Press. -Jay Ingram, The Velocity of Honey, Viking Canada, Penguin Group Canada. -Stuart Laidlaw, Secret Ingredients: A Brave New World of Industrial Farming, McClelland & Stewart. -Gabor Maté, When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress, Alfred A. Knopf Canada. -Shelley McKellar, Surgical Limits: The Life of Gordon Murray, University of Toronto Press. -Harry Thurston, Island of the Blessed: The Secret's of Egypt's Everlasting Oasis, Doubleday Canada. -Kim Vicente, The Human Factor: Revolutionizing the Way People Live With Technology, Alfred A. Knopf Canada. The winner in each category will be announced on Canada Book Day, April 23, 2004. Each winner will receive a $1000 cash prize at a gala awards banquet Saturday evening, June 5, 2004, at the Sutton Place Hotel in downtown Toronto in conjunction with the CSWA's 33rd annual general meeting and conference. Tickets for the awards banquet are available for purchase through the CSWA.
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2002
SCIENCE IN SOCIETY JOURNALISM AWARDS ($1000 Prizes) View pictures of the 2002 plaque presentations BREAKING NEWS-IN ALL MEDIA: Carolyn Abraham, "Have A Heart", The Globe and Mail, February 9, 2002. PRINT Natural
Resources, Nature, the Environment, and Related Technologies:
Edward Struzik, "The Shining Mountains: Environmental Change in
the Rockies", The Edmonton Journal, 4 Part Series, November
24-December 15, 2002. Basic, Applied, and Computer Sciences: No winner declared. THE HERB LAMPERT STUDENT WRITING AWARD ($750 Prize): Emily Chung, "Biodiesel Buses: A new kind of fat burning transportation", Momentum: The Magazine for Self-Propelled People, August/ September 2002. RADIO Feature
Items, 15 Minutes or More: Jim Lebans, Jim Handman, Bob McDonald,
"Music and the Brain", CBC Radio - Quirks and Quarks, June
15, 2002. TELEVISION Feature Items, 15 Minutes or More: Paul Lang, David Springbett, Janine Benyus, "Biomimicry: Learning From Nature II", CBC Television - The Nature of Things, November 21, 2002. BOOKS General Books: Dan Falk, Universe on a T-Shirt: The Quest for the Theory of Everything, Viking Canada: Penguin Books Canada Limited, 2002. Environmental
Reporter Wins Award The Yves O. Fortier Earth Science Journalism Award is awarded by the (GAC) for excellence in journalistic presentation of earth science in the newspaper medium. The award shall recognize a journalist who is a resident of Canada and who has been exceptionally effective in presenting a story dealing with earth science in one of Canada's daily or weekly newspapers.
In 1991, Bob was a co-recipient of the environment award with the Ontario Newspaper Association for work on a water crisis in the Town of Elmira when industrial chemicals from Uniroyal Chemical Ltd. Knocked the town's drinking supply out of commission. The GAC is a not for profit, multi-faceted, national association dedicated to fostering the progress of geosciences in Canada. Incorporated in 1947, the Association serves its members and the wider geoscience community through leading edge publications, annual conferences, field trips and short courses. GAC has contributed significantly to the promotion and development of the geological sciences in Canada. The vision of the GAC is a geoscience community, which is knowledgeable, professionally competent and respected, whose input and advice are relevant, widely sought and utilized, and whose vital contribution to the economic prosperity and social well being of the nation is widely acknowledged. GAC is very pleased to provide recognition to Mr. Burtt for his contribution to the geosciences by providing readers with some understanding of a geological feature about which they wouldn't ordinarily know a great deal. To read the articles, go to GAC's website at www.gac.ca/MEDALS/Yves.html. For more information contact: Reg
Wilson Karen
Dawe
Seeing
the Forest, the Trees and Beyond Mr. Blouin was recognized for his story called The Cures of Cedar which appeared in the Ottawa Citizen's Weekly Magazine in February of 2003. Set in the context of a Gatineau-based entrepreneur who recycles cedar branches destined for landfills and produces cedar oil, the article provides readers with a greater understanding of the medicinal properties of cedar and its historical and current applications in products such as cough syrup. Mr. Blouin is based in Cantley, Québec. Mr. Struzik was rewarded for his article entitled Fighting Fire With Fire which appeared in the October 12, 2003 issue of the Edmonton Journal. The article provided a detailed and informed account of the efforts taken to combat the forest fires which ravaged parts of Alberta and British Columbia in the summer of 2003, and the conditions which caused the situation to be so dangerous and volatile. In addition to being a reporter and author, Mr. Struzik has written for several scientific journals. The Canadian Forest Service Journalism Awards recognize and reward journalistic excellence in articles relating to Canadian forest issues. The purpose is to promote a better appreciation and understanding of Canada's forests and to recognize the role of scientific research and its application to the many values – social, environmental and economic – that Canadians place on the forest. The annual print media awards are sponsored by Natural Resources Canada's Canadian Forest Service, and are administered by the Canadian Science Writers' Association. The awards are judged by an independent panel consisting of experts in forest science and journalism. For further information, please contact: Canadian
Science Writers' Association David
Tuck
2001
SCIENCE IN SOCIETY JOURNALISM AWARDS ($1000 Prizes) View pictures of the 2001 plaque presentations BREAKING NEWS-IN ALL MEDIA: Alicia Priest, "Possible Side Effects", The Georgia Straight, May 10-17, 2001. PRINT Natural Resources, Nature, the Environment, and Related Technologies: David Pitt-Brooke, "Aloft on Langara", Canadian Geographic, September/October 2001. Basic, Applied, and Computer Sciences: Tom Koppel, "The Lost World", The Vancouver Sun, 5 Part Series, December 10-14, 2001. WEB JOURNALISM: No winner declared. THE HERB LAMPERT STUDENT WRITING AWARD ($750 Prize): Nicole J. Johnston, "Take some good bacteria and call me in the morning", The Globe and Mail, January 16, 2001. RADIO Feature Items, 15 Minutes or More: Mark Ulster, Jim Handman, Bob McDonald, "Riding the Space Elevator", CBC Radio - Quirks and Quarks, November 3, 2001. TELEVISION Feature Items, 15 Minutes or More: Alan Able, Barry Davis, "The Science of Death", Discovery Channel Canada, November 23, 2001. BOOKS General Books: Carolyn Abraham, Possessing Genius: The Bizarre Odyssey of Einstein's Brain, Penguin Books Canada Limited, 2001. 2000
SCIENCE IN SOCIETY JOURNALISM AWARDS WINNERS ($1000 Prizes) BREAKING NEWS-IN ALL MEDIA: No winner declared. PRINT Natural Resources, Nature, the Environment, and Related Technologies: David Lees, "Green Rebirth: How three decades of grassroot determination cleaned up Sudbury's industrial gloom", Canadian Geographic, May/June 2000. Basic, Applied, and Computer Sciences: Ian MacLeod, "Searching for Hal", The Ottawa Citizen, October 1, 2000. WEB JOURNALISM: No winner declared. THE HERB LAMPERT STUDENT WRITING AWARD ($750 Prize): Nicole J. Johnston, "Gene Therapy: Hope or Hype", The Globe and Mail, April 18, 2000. RADIO
TELEVISION Feature Items, 15 Minutes or More: Mario Masson, Marièlle Choquette, "Les OGM", Société Radio-Canada - Découverte, March 26, 2000. BOOKS General Books: Alan McHughen, Pandora's Picnic Basket: The Potential and Hazards of Genetically Modified Foods, Oxford University Press, 2000.
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Mr.
Bob Burtt has been a reporter or editor for almost forty years,
the last 20 years as an environmental reporter with THE RECORD in
Kitchener, Waterloo. Bob has a lifelong interest in nature and the
environment. So it is not surprising that his winning articles focus
on water challenges. His article, Our Buried Treasure,
along with related story, Display on hiking trail explains
moraine's significance was published in THE RECORD in June
2003. The first article details the threats posed to drinking water
supplies by developments on the west side of Kitchener and Waterloo.
He explains the dangers posed by new suburbs being built in areas
where rainfall infiltrates the moraine and recharges the aquifers
that supply much of the region's drinking water. The second article
chronicles the development of an intriguing series of signs along
Waterloo's West Side Trail explaining the moraine's importance for
drinking water and related history of the area.