 New York Times reporter Denise Grady |
Denise Grady, a reporter in the science news department of The New York Times, will visit SUNY Fredonia on Tuesday, Oct. 23, and present the lecture, “The Germ Beat: From Cholera in Iraq to Monkeypox in Wisconsin,” in Jewett Hall Room 101 at 7:30 p.m.
Her talk will focus on how reporters cover disease outbreaks around the world. While on campus she will also meet with students. The lecture is free and the public is invited to attend.
Ms. Grady has been a reporter in the science news department of The New York Times since September 1998, and has also worked there as a health editor. She wrote for newspaper for several years before that as a freelancer. Ms. Grady has written more than 500 articles about medicine and biology for The New York Times; edited two Times books, one on women’s health and one on alternative medicine; and has written a recently-published book about emerging viruses.
She has also been a staff writer covering medicine for Time magazine, a staff writer at Discover magazine, an associate editor for The Sciences magazine, an assistant editor for the New England Journal of Medicine, an instructor in writing at the University of New Hampshire and an assistant editor for the journal Physics Today.
Born in New York City, Ms. Grady received a B.S. degree in Biology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and an M.A. degree in English from the University of New Hampshire.
Ms. Grady’s appearance at SUNY Fredonia is made possible through The New York Times’ readership program, which is sponsored by the university’s College of Arts and Humanities, College of Education, College of Natural and Social Sciences, Reed Library, Graduate Studies and Research, Information Technology Services, and the Vice President for Academic Affairs. Under the program, Fredonia students, faculty and staff have access to the newspaper without charge on a daily basis and the faculty gain online guides. The New York Times partners with the American Association of State Colleges and Universities’ (AASCU) American Democracy Project to encourage the readership of newspapers as a critical part of engaged citizenship, an ideal which SUNY Fredonia shares through participation in the readership program.
