Academies Announce Winners of 2009 Communication Awards
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September 30, 2009 -- University of Chicago researcher Neil Shubin’s Your Inner Fish has won the prize for best book in the National Academies’ annual awards that recognize excellence in reporting and communicating science, engineering, and medicine to the general public. Reporter Mark Johnson of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel was honored for his series of articles on reprogramming human cells, as was Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick? -- a documentary about racial and economic disparities in health that won for best film. NPR's Climate Connections took the prize for best online Internet site.