Science in Society journalism award winners announced

This year’s Science in Society journalism awards were just announced, and there’s at least one familiar name among winners. Former STAT contributor Carl Zimmer won the prize in the book category for “She Has Her Mother’s Laugh,” a book that delves into heredity and our understanding of the concept. Other winners include a reported feature for Vice News on a raw sewage problem in Alabama that’s caused a tropical parasite, and a story series in The Desert Sun on a border city with toxic air pollution.

Also announced recently was this year’s Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Science Reporting: Apoorva Mandavilli was awarded the prize for her body of work for the autism news website Spectrum — where she serves as editor-in-chief — as well as for global health stories that have appeared elsewhere.