Christina Pince Awarded 2007 AAAS/ASPB Mass Media Fellowship

Christina Pince

Christina Pince, of the University of Washington, is the 2007 recipient of the Mass Media Science & Engineering Fellowship sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science and ASPB. She will spend 10 weeks reporting science news for KUNC FM, a public radio station in Greeley, Colorado. Christina is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Biology at the University of Washington in Seattle, working under the tutelage of Dr. Toby Bradshaw. She has spent the past four years there studying evolutionary and developmental genetics in the plant genus Mimulus through the creation of mutant plants. She is the cofounder of the Biology Department’s Natural History Seminar Series and maintains a science blog for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. She is also a radio DJ for the University of Washington student radio station, Rainydawg Radio, and has participated in numerous outreach activities to help share science and nature with the general public. She hopes to pursue a career in science communication and is excited to have this opportunity to learn more about science news reporting and radio production.