CU Professor Emeritus Albert Bartlett Receives 2008 Media Award from The Population Institute

Physics Professor Emeritus Albert Bartlett of the University of Colorado at Boulder is the winner of a 2008 Global Media Award for Excellence in Population Reporting from The Population Institute in Washington, D.C.

Bartlett received the Best Magazine Award for his article titled “Why Have Scientists Succumbed to Political Correctness,” published in the Teachers Clearinghouse for Science Society Education Newsletter last spring.

Bartlett's article expresses concern over scientists identifying overpopulation as a cause of problems in their writings, but ignoring it in their recommendations for solving environmental problems.

The 11 recipients of the institute's 2008 Global Media Awards for Excellence in Population Reporting included the mayor of London and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Don Wright, recently retired from The Palm Beach Post. The awards were presented at a Nov. 18 ceremony in Los Angeles.

Bartlett is an internationally known expert on population and energy issues and is widely known for his famous lecture on "Arithmetic, Population and Energy," which he has given 1,667 times since first delivering it to a group of CU students on Sept. 19, 1969.

The Population Institute is an international, educational nonprofit organization that seeks to voluntarily reduce excessive population growth through universal access to family planning information. The institute was founded in 1969 and has members in 172 countries.