Jim Erickson
Lead Public Relations Representative
Biography
Jim Erickson was a newspaper reporter at the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, The Arizona Daily Star in Tucson and the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel before joining the U-M News Service in 2007. As a science writer, he won a Science Journalism Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Science in Society Award from the National Association of Science Writers, and was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. Erickson has a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University and a bachelor’s in English from Hamilton College.
Topic Areas
- Environment/Sustainability
- Ecology/Evolutionary Biology
- Earth/Environmental Sciences
- Graham Sustainability Institute
- Museum of Zoology
- Museum of Paleontology
- Herbarium
- Life Sciences Institute
- Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research
- Michigan Sea Grant
- Water Center
- Biological Station

Contact Information
- Phone
- 734-647-1842
- [email protected]
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