John A. Carey, award winning writer and editor, with three decades of experience covering science, medicine, the environment, and other areas for magazines including Business Week, The Scientist, and Newsweek, will be Virginia Tech’s College of Engineering Visiting Scholar on Sept. 21 and 22.He will give a talk, “Why Scientists Should Help Stop the Decline in Journalism,” on Sept. 21 at 4 p.m. in the on-campus Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science Building on Stanger Street in Room 310. It is free and open to Virginia Tech faculty, staff, students, and to the general public.

Carey was the senior correspondent for Business Week from 1989 until 2010. He wrote hundreds of stories, from quick-hitting breaking news to in-depth features for the magazine. Fifteen of his articles were cover stories.

He is the director of the Evert Clark/Seth Payne Award for Young Science Journalists, responsible for managing the science writing contest for journalists under the age of 30.In 2009, Carey won the Wistar Institute Science Journalism Award. In 2008, he received the Science Journalism Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science and earned an Award of Excellence in Health Care Journalism from the Association of Health Care Journalists.

Carey, currently a freelancer, graduated from Yale University in molecular biophysics and biochemistry magna cum laude, and has a master’s degree in marine biology from the University College of North Wales, Bangor, and a master’s of forest science in forest ecology from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.