First Place, Health & Medicine – 2015

San Diego Press Club, Excellence in Journalism Awards (non-daily category)

Healing Forces, November 2014

Lede: “What if we could engineer “killer cells” to wage war on tumors, and then program the little soldiers to seek a specific kill zone? What if glowing tumors could tell doctors which tissue material to remove during surgery?”

First Place, Environment – 2015

San Diego Press Club, Excellence in Journalism Awards (non-daily category)

Sector Shifts as Biofuel Is Running Out of Gas, May 2015

Lede: “Let’s be honest, biofuel was a bit of a bust.”

Third Place, Health & Medicine – 2016

San Diego Press Club, Excellence in Journalism (non-daily category)

Out of the Shadows, April 2016