Randy Atkins

Randy Atkins, Senior Program Officer for Media/Public Relations, U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE), The U.S. National Academies.

Randy’s projects include identifying the 21st century’s “Grand Challenges for Engineering” with an international committee of some of this generation’s most accomplished technological thinkers.  He also created a nationwide series of scenario-based workshops called “News & Terrorism: Communicating in a Crisis.”  He reports weekly “Engineering Innovation” stories on the Washington, D.C. region’s most listened-to radio station, CBS affiliate WTOP.  Before joining the NAE, Randy worked for the American Chemical Society and the American Physical Society.  Previously, he was an on-air reporter for a nationally-distributed science TV news series and a general assignment reporter at a local NBC TV affiliate.  Early in his career, Randy worked as a microbiologist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Institutes of Health.