Jane Qiu
Jane Qiu | |
|---|---|
邱瑾 | |
| Nationality | Chinese |
| Other names | Qiū Jǐn |
| Alma mater | |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Employer | Nature Reviews Neuroscience (2004–2006) |
Jane Qiu (Chinese: 邱瑾; pinyin: Qiū Jǐn) is an independent science journalist based in Beijing, primarily focusing on geoscience and the environment.
Education and career
[edit]Qiu earned first-class honours in biology from the University of Essex in 1993.[1] She coauthored the book RNA Isolation and Analysis in 1994,[2] and completed a PhD in cancer genetics[3] in 1997, through the Beatson Institute for Cancer Research of the University of Glasgow. After postdoctoral research at Hunter College in New York City and the Centre for Neuroscience of King's College London,[1] she dropped out of academia to become a science journalist.[3] She became an editor for Nature Reviews Neuroscience in 2004[1] and then, in 2006, a freelance journalist.[3]
Recognition
[edit]Qiu earned a silver medal in the 2016 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards, in the magazine writing category, for three stories in Nature on prediction and warning systems for earthquake-triggered landslides in Nepal, Chinese fossil hominids, and the interlinked ecological and social effects of climate change on the grasslands of Tibet.[4] The Tibet story won the 2017 best feature award of the Association of British Science Writers,[5] and a group of six of her stories, including the Nepal and Tibet stories, won second place in the 2016 Asian Environmental Journalism Awards for Environmental Journalist of the Year.[6] Another of her stories, on ancient ice preserved in Tibet, won the 2017 Outstanding Enterprise Reporting award of the South Asian Journalists Association.[7] She is a two-time winner of the EGU Science Journalism Fellowship of the European Geosciences Union,[8] and has been a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Qiu, Jane, My experience, archived from the original on 2018-05-11
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ Reviews of RNA Isolation and Analysis:
- Anand, C.V. (April 1995), Biochemical Education, 23 (2): 114, doi:10.1016/0307-4412(95)90683-5
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Harris, Edward D. (January 1997), In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology - Animal, 33 (1): 2, doi:10.1007/s11626-997-0014-5, JSTOR 4294538
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Hughes, John M.X. (June 1995), Trends in Biochemical Sciences, 20 (6): 251–252, doi:10.1016/s0968-0004(00)89031-3
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Kjems, Jørgen (June 1995), FEBS Letters, 367 (1): 101, doi:10.1016/0014-5793(95)90069-1
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Moffatt, R. Jeffrey (November 1995), Transgenic Research, 4 (6): 406, doi:10.1007/bf01973759
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- Anand, C.V. (April 1995), Biochemical Education, 23 (2): 114, doi:10.1016/0307-4412(95)90683-5
- ^ a b c d "This Year's Fellows: Jane Qiu", Knight Science Journalism, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 28 December 2017, retrieved 2022-01-13
- ^ "2016 Magazine: Silver, Jane Qiu", AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards, American Association for the Advancement of Science, retrieved 2022-01-13
- ^ Hvistendahl, Mara (7 November 2017), "Storygram: Jane Qiu's "Trouble in Tibet"", The Open Notebook, retrieved 2022-01-13
- ^ Jane Qiu Honored in Asian Environmental Journalism Awards, Pulitzer Center, 10 November 2016, retrieved 2022-01-13
- ^ Past Award Winners, South Asian Journalists Association, retrieved 2022-01-13
- ^ Jane Qiu and Jane Palmer awarded EGU Science Journalism Fellowship, European Geosciences Union, 18 January 2017, retrieved 2022-01-13
External links
[edit]- @janeqiuchina, Qui's Twitter account