Fellows & Editors
Andrea Widener
- Trip:
- Fellows Spring 2001
- Affiliation:
- Contra Costa Newspapers
- Country:
- Russia
- Year:
- 2001
Andrea Widener is a reporter for the Contra Costa Newspapers, for which she covers science and the San Francisco Bay area's national laboratories. Since joining the paper in 1998, she has covered stories such as the Wen Ho Lee case and the cost overruns in construction of the world's largest laser. Previously, she was an education reporter for the Boca Raton News in Florida and reported on environmental issues as an intern for The Oregonian. She majored in Physics and Communication at Trinity University in San Antonio. She has a Master's degree at the University of Missouri, where she majored in journalism with an emphasis on environmental reporting.
Stories
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Earth-shaking Machines May Help Monitor Test Ban Treaty
BYSTROVKA VIBROSEISMIC TEST SITE, Siberia -- The shaking starts as a twitch in your toes and gradually escalates to an ear-rattling rumble. But the most important jarring is happening 600 miles away in...
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‘Science Cities’ See their Salvation in Brain Power
OBNINSK, Russia -- Anton Yanovsky said the word "Naukograd" with a reverence that in other places is reserved for religion. For him, it means much more than "Science City." It means tax...
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Russia Struggles to Revive its Past Renown in Science
DUBNA, Russia -- As he walks darkened hallways toward an acclaimed particle accelerator, Yuri Lobanov remembers the early 1960s, when he arrived at this science city. That's when science was a high...
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Nuclear Legacy
KADEMGORODOK, Russia -- To uncover the impact of nuclear nonproliferation programs here, drive south past solitary ice-fishers, empty bus stops and leafless Siberian birch forests to a muddy field where rusting metal ...
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One Emigre’s Optimistic View
Alexandre Telnov knows plenty of Russian scientists working in the United States. In fact, it took just a few minutes for this ardent young man with straight, pale blond hair and lots...
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Struggles for Money Consume Scientists
Andrei Arzhannikov is a thin, helpful man with a brown goatee and an earnest manner. At one point he chased a rapidly moving van several blocks through Akademgorodok's April slush when it...
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