Ann Gibbons
Ann Gibbons is a contributing correspondent for Science magazine and the author of The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors and contributor to A Most Interesting Problem: What Darwin's Descent of Man Got Right and Wrong About Human Evolution. She has taught science writing at Carnegie Mellon University and written about human evolution recently for National Geographic, SLATE, Smithsonian magazine and other publications.
She was awarded the American Geophysical Union, 2019 David Perlman Award for Excellence in Science Journalism – News for her magazine story about "Why 536 was the worst year to be alive"; the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine 2018 and 2013 Communication Awards for best magazine/newspaper articles published in special issues of Science on human migration and human conflict; the 2014 Society of American Archeology Gene S. Stuart Award for “The Thousand-Year Graveyard,” which appeared as Science’s first multimedia story on December 13, 2013; and the 2012 Anthropology in Media Award from the American Anthropological Association (AAA) for a decade's worth of stories on human origins and evolution.
She has been a fellow in the Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; a science writing fellow at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA, and a Media Fellow at Harvard Medical School’s seminar in Modern Plagues: Emerging Threats to Global Health.
