Timothy Ferris

Professor, Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley, 1986-1996. Professor emeritus, 1996-present. Taught courses as well in the departments of Astronomy and English.

Professor, University of Southern California School of Journalism, 1984-1986; associate professor, 1983-1985; visiting professor, 1982-1983. Director of the print journalism program. Also taught honors curriculum in the philosophy of space and time.

Instructor, writing seminar, California Institute of Technology, 1983.

Professor, Department of English, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, 1981-1982; associate professor, 1979-1981; assistant professor, 1974-1979.

New York City bureau chief, Rolling Stone magazine, 1971-1973; contributing editor, 1973-1980.

Reporter, New York Post , New York City, 1969-1971.

Reporter, United Press International, New York City, 1967-1969.

Commentator, "The Site", MS-NBC TV network, 1997.

Multimedia critic, Scientific American magazine, 1994-present.

President, Triplepoint Films, 1991-present.

Member, Advisory Council, International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, 1997-present; editorial advisory board, Classics of Science Library, Gryphon Editions, 1994-present; NASA Administrator's panel on twenty-year goals in space science, 1996.

Juror, the Pulitzer Prizes, 1990; judge, PEN literary awards, 1996; judge, Los Angeles Times book prizes, 1996- present.

Reader, Guggenheim Fellowships, 1991 - present.

Essayist, The MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour, 1992-94.

Senior science advisor, "FUTURE QUEST", 22-part PBS series, aired 1994-95.

Chair, UC committee to evaluate the science communications program at the University of California at Santa Cruz, 1993.

Scholar in Residence, Institute for Science, Engineering and Public Policy, Portland, Oregon, November 1992.

Advisor, American Conservatory Theater production of Tom Stoppard's "Hapgood", San Francisco, 1990.

Director, "Twenty-First Century Biotechnology", lecture series, UC Berkeley, 1990-91.

Administrator, Books for China Project, 1984.

Commentator, National Public Radio, 1981-1986.

Consultant on feature film projects, Twentieth Century Fox Productions, 1982; CBS Theatrical Films, 1982; Walt Disney Productions, 1981 - 1982; Polygram Pictures, 1980.

Columnist, Science Digest magazine, 1980-1982.

Pulitzer Prize nomination, 1989, Coming of Age in the Milky Way , which was also named one of the best books of the year by The New York Times , the Boston Globe , Newsday , and the Los Angeles Times , 1989; honored by The New York Public Library as "a lasting contribution to literature," 1989; and named best nonfiction book of the year by the Bay Area Book Critics Association, San Francisco, 1989.

The Mind's Sky named one of the best books of the year by The New York Times , 1992.

American Institute of Physics prize, 1989, for Coming of Age in the Milky Way , and 1978, for The Red Limit (first journalist to win the prize twice).

Guggenheim Fellowship, 1986-87.

Gannett Foundation grant, 1987.

John Randolf and Dora Haynes Foundation Fellowship, 1986.

National Emmy nomination, outstanding individual achievement in documentary writing, for "THE CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE," 1986.

Dorothea Klumpke-Roberts Prize for lifetime contribution to public understanding of astronomy, 1986, Astronomical Society of the Pacific.

Finalist, NASA Journalist in Space program, 1986. (Program suspended with Challenger crash.)

American Association for the Advancement of Science - Westinghouse science writing award in broadcasting, 1986, for "THE CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE"; and in print, 1983, for "Beyond Newton and Einstein."

National Book Award nomination, 1981, for Galaxies.

Aviation/Space Writers Association George F. Ball Award, 1978, for "The Odyssey and the Ecstasy: The Vikings' Search for Life on Mars."

Society of Silurians award, best news story by a reporter in the profession less than five years, 197l, for "The Twins: A Story of Addiction."