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Science News Writer Earns Recognition for Illustrating Evolutionary Pathways

Tina Saey, a writer for Science News, a publication of Society for Science & the Public, recently won the Genetics Society of America (GSA) Excellence in Research and Journalism Award. The reward honors her article ā€œMolecular Evolution,ā€ which appeared in the January 31, 2009 issue of Science News.

GSA said in a press release that the ā€œarticle was selected based on its use of a model organism, in this case bacteria, to illustrate clearly the evolutionary pathways and the forces that affect those pathways, including random chance and evolutionary constraints, drift and environment.ā€

Saey, who has written for Science News for three years and also recently won the 2010 Endocrine Society Award for Excellence in Science and Medical Journalism, said ā€œI’m really thrilled I received this award. It’s a great validation of a lot of hard work I did on this story.ā€