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SHANKAR VEDANTAM is a science reporter on the national desk of The Washington Post. He writes about human behavior. He was previously a medical and science reporter at The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Washington bureau of Knight-Ridder. While at the Inquirer, he wrote a two-part series about child abuse called "When a Mother's Care Turns Deadly" that won the 2000 SAJA Journalism Award for Outstanding story on any subject by a South Asian Journalist. That same year, the series also won first prize for Excellence in Non-deadline writing at the Philadelphia Society for Professional Journalists contest, second prize for Feature Writing at the Pennsylvania Associated Press Managing Editors Awards, second prize for Feature Writing at the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association Keystone Awards, and was a finalist at the Livingston Awards for Young Journalists. While at Knight-Ridder, Vedantam wrote an article on AIDS called "Rx For AIDS: For Some, A New Era / Advances Largely Bypass The Third World" that was published in the Inquirer, which is part of the Knight-Ridder chain. That series won SAJA's first award--the SAJA Journalism Awards 1997 prize for Outstanding Story by a South Asian Journalist in the United States. Vedantam has previously won the Ray Bruner Science Writing Award from the American Public Health Association, and other awards from the Pennsylvania AP Managing Editors contest, the Asian American Journalists Association and the Reader's Digest Foundation. Vedantam
holds a Master's degree in journalism from Stanford University and a Bachelor's
degree in electronics engineering from Bangalore University, India.
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