Ricki Lewis has built a multifaceted career
around communicating the excitement of life
science, especially genetics and biotechnology.
She earned her Ph.D. in genetics in 1980 from
Indiana University, working with homeotic
mutations in Drosophila melanogaster.
Ricki is the author of Life, an introductory
biology text; Human Genetics: Concepts
and Applications; co-author of two
human anatomy and physiology textbooks;
and author of Discovery: Explorations in the
Life Sciences, an essay collection about
research and the nature of scientific investigation.
As a Contributing Editor to The
Scientist, a newspaper read by scientists
worldwide, she writes frequently on the latest
research and news in biotechnology.
Since 1980, Ricki has published more than
3,000 articles in a variety of magazines,
including a cover story on DNA fingerprinting
in Discover and book reviews for
The New York Times. Ricki participates in
Science Forum, a monthly call-in science
program on public radio, and is a frequent
invited speaker. She is an adjunct professor
at Miami University and the University at
Albany, where she has taught a variety of life
science courses, and also taught at Empire
State College and several community colleges.
She brought science experiments to
grade school classrooms for three years as
part of a traveling science museum, for
which she obtained a Howard Hughes Medical Institute grant. Ricki has been a genetic
counselor for a large private medical practice
in Schenectady, NY, since 1984, where
she helps people make decisions about
reproductive choices. Ricki lives in upstate New York with
chemist husband Larry, three daughters,
and various cats and guinea pigs.
E-mail Ricki Lewis at rickilewis@nasw.org.
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