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William E. BurrowsPrinter Friendly Printer Friendly

Professor of Journalism; Director and Founder, Science and Environmental Reporting Program
M.A. 1962 (government), B.A. 1960 (government), Columbia.

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Research Interests:

air, space, and national security reporting.

Affiliations:

American Association for the Advancement of Science, New York Academy of Sciences, National Association of Science Writers, Connecticut Academy of Arts and Science, British Interplanetary Society.

Fellowships/Honors:

American Astronautical Society Eugene M. Emme Astronautical Literature Award, 1998, for The New Ocean; Contributing Editor, Air & Space/Smithsonian magazine; Golden Dozen Teaching Award, New York University, 1992; Aviation and Space Writers Association Premier Award for Space Coverage, 1991; Sigma Delta Chi Award for Service to Journalism Education, 1977.

Selected Works:

By Any Means Necessary: America's Secret Air War, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001.
This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age. New York: Random House. 1998.
Critical Mass: The Dangerous Race for Superweapons in a Fragmenting World, with Robert Windrem. New York: Simon and Schuster. 1994.
Exploring Space: Voyages in the Solar System and Beyond. New York: Random House. 1991.
Deep Black: Space Espionage and National Security. New York: Random House. 1986.
On Reporting the News. New York: New York University Press. 1977.
Richthofen: A True History of the Red Baron. New York: Harcourt Brace. 1969.

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