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ROBERT LEE HOTZ, A72, G73
Science and technology reporter Los Angeles Times
Lee Hotz, who received his bachelor’s in English and a master’s in theater history, has been a
two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist as a science writer, once for his coverage of genetic-engineering
issues, and again for his coverage of the space shuttle Columbia accident. He shared a Pulitzer
Prize in 1995 for breaking coverage of the Northridge Earthquake. Hotz has traveled three times
to the South Pole and twice to the Greenland ice cap, and currently serves as a Distinguished
Writer in Residence at New York University.
“My time at Tufts taught me a great many things, among them, to think and act indepen -
dently. I was very fortunate to take advantage of Tufts’ foreign programs, studying in London and
in India. One thing quite wonderful about Tufts is how faculty involve them -selves so fully in the
lives of their students. They are extraordinarily selfless and wonderful people— so embracing of
the herd of young minds placed in their charge. They helped me learn to trust myself— and that
is the thread between a double major in English and theater and a sojourn at the South Pole.”
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