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HGP and the Private Sector
HGP Milestones
In the News
Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues
Web, Publications, Resources
Funding
Meeting Calendars & Acronyms
SoundVisions Productions, founded and directed by Barinetta Scott and Jude Thilman, won a Silver Baton award for The DNA Files in the 2000 Alfred I. Du PontColumbia University television and radio competition. Hosted by John Hockenberry, the series consisted of nine 1-hour programs broadcast on National Public Radio. It was funded in part by the Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications component of DOEs Human Genome Program.
Twelve winners were selected from 650 submissions aired between July1, 1998, and June 30, 1999. Bill Moyers won a Gold Baton for Facing the Truth, a 2-hour documentary about the aftermath of apartheid in South Africa. Other Silver Baton winners included Diane Sawyer (20/20: The Unwanted Children of Russia); Youth Radio, Berkeley (E-Mails from Kosovo); and CBS News and Bob Simon (60 Minutes II: The Shame of Srebrenica). The DuPontColumbia awards, among the most prestigious in broadcast journalism, began in 1943.
For this school year, Scott is a Knight Science Journalism fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
[Orders for The DNA Files tapes and transcripts: http://www.dnafiles.org/ or 510/486-1185.]
The electronic form of the newsletter may be cited in the following style:
Human Genome Program, U.S. Department of Energy, Human Genome News (v11n1-2).
The Human Genome Project (HGP) was an international 13-year effort, 1990 to 2003. Primary goals were to discover the complete set of human genes and make them accessible for further biological study, and determine the complete sequence of DNA bases in the human genome. See Timeline for more HGP history.
Published from 1989 until 2002, this newsletter facilitated HGP communication, helped prevent duplication of research effort, and informed persons interested in genome research.