Thomas Fudge
Science and Technology ReporterA journalist with 30 years of experience, Tom covers science and technology stories for KPBS' platforms. He joined KPBS in 1998 to cover San Diego issues related to growth, transportation, and development. He previously served as host of These Days (now KPBS Midday Edition) and as a news editor. Tom began his broadcasting career in 1988 at WSUI Radio in Iowa City as a reporter and newscaster. He then spent five years at Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) where he worked as a reporter. Following his departure from MPR, Tom was a freelance journalist, working for Twin Cities Public Television, WCCO Radio, and a variety of regional and national newspapers and magazines. He has received recognition for his outstanding work in hosting and public affairs reporting from the Unity Awards, the Northwest Broadcast News Association, and the San Diego chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
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San Diego is already seeing an increase in the number of patients from out of state seeking abortions. -
Scientists at UC San Diego are leading what they call the biggest community science project ever done on animal communication. -
Entomologists at UC Riverside say they couldn’t find a single example of eight out of California’s 25 bumble bee species. -
“We are a species that has been around for 250,000 years and numbers have not been around that long.” -
Researchers in San Diego and elsewhere are studying the link between intermittent fasting and disease prevention. -
The original Salk Institute for Biological Studies, built in the early 1960s, has the beauty of great architecture and some fortuitous design that has helped it keep pace with advancing science.
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Construction began Thursday near Poway on the first leg of a 10,000-mile-long broadband network.
- Why aren't Americans filling the manufacturing jobs we already have?
- Litigation at Green Oak Ranch in Vista continues and postpones future events
- Could this deadly intersection become San Diego's next 'quick-build' roundabout?
- California attorney general launches civil rights investigation into San Diego juvenile halls
- Preventable hospitalizations in California show continued health disparities as Medicaid faces possible cuts