About Dennis Meredith
Dennis Meredith's (78) career as a science communicator has included service at some of the country's leading research universities, including MIT, Caltech, Cornell, Duke and the 
Universities of Rhode Island and Wisconsin.
He is a member of the Society of Environmental Journalists and the National Association of Science Writers.
He was a creator and developer of EurekAlert!, working with AAAS to establish the international research news service, which now links more than 12,000 journalists to news from 6,000 subscribing research institutions worldwide.
He holds a B.S. degree in chemistry from the University of Texas and an M.S. in biochemistry and science writing from the University of Wisconsin.
He was elected as a AAAS Fellow "for exemplary leadership in university communications, and for important contributions to the theory and practice of research communication." In 2012 he was named the year's Honorary Member of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society.
He has written thousands of magazine articles and news releases on science and engineering over his career. He is author of Explaining Research: How to Reach Key Audiences to Advance Your Work, Second Edition (Oxford, 2021), The Climate Pandemic: How Climate Disruption Threatens Human Survival (Glyphus, 2023), and Earthbound: The Obstacles to Human Space Exploration and the Promise of Artificial Intelligence (Glyphus, 2025)
He is an award-winning author of science thrillers that seek to extrapolate real-world science into compelling stories that speculate on their ultimate implications. His novels include The Rainbow Virus, Wormholes: A Novel, Solomon's Freedom, The Cerulean's Secret, The Happy Chip, The Neuromorphs, Mythicals, and Attack of the Food Zombies. His forthcoming novels are Angelians and The Czar Bomb.
