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Prize-winning science journalist and author Ed Yong will speak at the University of Wyoming Thursday, Feb. 6 at 4 p.m. in the Education Auditorium.

Yong will present a keynote lecture, “The Amazing Nature of Animal Senses.” 

A recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in 2021 for an early and influential series of articles on the COVID-19 pandemic, Yong has written multiple New York Times bestsellers that demonstrate his wide-ranging expertise as a science journalist. His book, “An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us,” received the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction and the Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize.

Yong’s investigative journalism has been recognized for exceptional reporting in the sciences. His awards include the George Polk Award for science reporting and the Victor Cohn Prize for medical science reporting.