Joe Palca

Joseph Palca
Joe Palca, 2015
NationalityAmerican
Alma materPomona College (BA)
University of California at Santa Cruz (PhD)
OccupationJournalist
EmployerNational Public Radio
Known forScience Journalism

Joe Palca is an American correspondent for National Public Radio. He specializes in science, and is the backup host for Talk of the Nation Science Friday. Palca was also the president of the National Association of Science Writers from 1999 to 2000. He currently serves on Society for Science & the Public's board of trustees.

Education

He attended Pomona College, graduating with an undergraduate degree in Psychology in 1974.[1][2] He then received a PhD in psychology from the University of California at Santa Cruz, where he researched human sleep physiology.[3]

Career

Palca began his career in journalism in 1982 at the CBS affiliate in Washington, D.C. He left television in 1986 to become a print journalist; he was both a Washington news editor at Nature and a senior correspondent for Science. He went on to join NPR in 1992.[4] He took a sabbatical from NPR in late 1999 for a year to study human clinical trials as a Kaiser Family Foundation Media Fellow. He also co-created the NPR science communication training program, formerly known as Friends of Joe's Big Idea and now called NPR Scicommers, with fellow NPR staffer Maddie Sofia.[5][6]

Joe retired from NPR in October, 2022, after 30 years of service.

Awards

References

  1. ^ "Starr Named to Academy". Pomona College Magazine. Pomona College. 24 June 2020. Retrieved 29 August 2020.
  2. ^ "Joe Palca". LinkedIn. Retrieved 2019-11-10.
  3. ^ "Joe Palca | Correspondent, Science Desk". www.npr.org. Retrieved 2021-03-20.
  4. ^ "Joe Palca". NPR.org. Retrieved 2019-11-10.
  5. ^ "NPR Scicommers". www.wbur.org. Retrieved 2019-11-10.
  6. ^ "NPR Scicommers". NPR.org. Retrieved 2019-11-10.