Council for the Advancement of Science Writing

Professional information

Name

David Perlman

Title/position

CASW Fellow

Biography

David Perlman, award-winning Science Editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, has been a reporter, magazine writer, and foreign correspondent, and has been reporting on science and technology for more than 40 years. He is a past president of CASW and the National Association of Science Writers. He has been a Poynter Fellow at Yale, a Carnegie Corporation Fellow at Stanford, and a Regent's Professor at the University of California. He lectures widely at American universities and has led science writing and editing workshops for the American Press Institute and the China Association for Science and Technology.