Job title:
Professor, Graduate School of Journalism
Publications & Presentations:
- Best American Science Writing 2001, editor (Harper Collins, 2001)
- Life Beyond Earth (Simon & Schuster, 2001)
- The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe(s) Report (Simon & Schuster, 1997)
- The Universe and Eye, with illustrations by Ingram Pinn (Pavilion Books, 1993)
- The Mind's Sky: Human Intelligence in a Cosmic Context (Bantam Books, 1992)
- World Treasury of Physics, Astronomy, and Mathematics, editor (Little, Brown, 1991)
- Coming of Age in the Milky Way (William Morrow & Co.,1988)
- The Practice of Journalism, with Bruce Porter (Prentice-Hall, 1988)
- SpaceShots (Pantheon Books, 1984)
- Galaxies (Sierra Club Books, 1980)
- Murmurs of Earth: The Voyager Interstellar Record, with Carl Sagan, Frank Drake, Ann Druyan, Jon Lomberg and Linda Salzman Sagan (Random House, 1978)
- The Red Limit: The Search for the Edge of the Universe (William Morrow & Co., 1977)
- A Life Beyond Earth, PBS television special, Narrator and co-writer, World Premier November 10, 1999
- The Creation of the Universe, television science special, author and narrator, U.S. premier, PBS Network, November 20, 1985.
- Voyager phonograph record, archive of Earth's music carried aboard the Voyager interstellar spacecraft, producer. Launched from Kennedy Space Center 1977. Released in CD-ROM format, Warner New Media, 1992.