Joe Palca

Joe Palca is an American correspondent for National Public Radio. He specializes in science, and is the backup host for Talk of the Nation Science Friday. Palca was also the president of the National Association of Science Writers from 1999 to 2000. He currently serves on Society for Science & the Public's board of trustees.

Joseph Palca
Joe Palca, 2013
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of California at Santa Cruz (PhD), Pomona College (BA)
Occupationjournalist
EmployerNational Public Radio
Known forscience journalism

Education

He received a PhD in psychology from the University of California at Santa Cruz, where he researched human sleep physiology.[1] He attended Pomona College, graduating with an undergraduate degree in Psychology.[2]

Career

Palca began his career in journalism in 1982 at the CBS affiliate in Washington, DC. He left television in 1986 to become a print journalist; he was both a Washington news editor at Nature and a senior correspondent for Science. He went on to join NPR in 1992.[3]

He left NPR in late 1999 for a year to study human clinical trials as a Kaiser Family Foundation Media Fellow.

Palca is now a science correspondent for NPR, mainly working on science stories and his show, Joe's Big Idea.[3] He co-created the NPR science communication training program, formerly known as Friends of Joe's Big Idea and now called NPR Scicommers, with fellow NPR staffer Maddie Sofia.[4][5]

Awards

References
  1. https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=2101004
  2. "Joe Palca". LinkedIn. Retrieved 2019-11-10.
  3. "Joe Palca". NPR.org. Retrieved 2019-11-10.
  4. "NPR Scicommers". www.wbur.org. Retrieved 2019-11-10.
  5. "NPR Scicommers". NPR.org. Retrieved 2019-11-10.
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