Staff information

Biography

Julie Gephart Wiley has been a Senior Communications Specialist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory since 1986. She provides high-level communications support (strategic planning, program and project development and coordination, facilitation) to the Lab and to its customers. One of her strengths is writing reports for a wide range of meetings and workshops, including Lab initiative advisory committees and workshops for Lab organizations, DOE-HQ, and the National Science Foundation.

She currently is the Associate Communications Manager for PNNL's Biological Sciences Division. Responsibilities include developing research highlights for the BSD and Biological and Environmental Science Product Line website and DOE customers, website content development, workshop report writing, journal article editing, poster and marketing flyer development, scientific meeting exhibits, white papers; and proposals.

Julie manages the website for DOE's Low Dose Radiation Research Program (www.lowdose.energy.gov), which was transferred to PNNL in 2009. She also writes feature articles for niche media and award nominations as requested for Lab-wide customers.

Research Interests

• Scientific and technical editing and writing
• Research highlights
• Workshop planning and conducting
• Marketing material development
• Awards nominations
• Feature writing

Education and Credentials

• B.A., Communications, Washington State University

Awards and Recognitions

• 2008 Gold Winner, Hermes Creative Award for Fundamental & Computational Sciences Web Site creative concept, programming, writing and design (shared with several others)
• 2006 APEX Awards of Excellence for Fundamental Science Directorate Staff annual report (Special Purpose Brochures, Manuals & Reports--shared with several others). Systems Biology at PNNL; (Web Sites--shared with several others).
• 2005 Excellence Award, Puget Sound Chapter, Society for Technical Communication for Water: challenges at the intersection of human and natural systems (workshop report)
• 2004 APEX Award of Excellence for Systems Biology at PNNL (Web Sites)
• 2002 Outstanding Team Performance Award for the successful Genomes to Life proposal effort
• 2002 Award of Excellence from The Communications Awards for BioMolecular Networks Brochure and Flyers
• 2001 Merit Award from the Puget Sound Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication for Radiochemical Processing Laboratory brochure
• 2000 Woman of Achievement Award, Battelle
• Apex’99 Award for Newsletters - Online. Energy Science News (with several others)
• 1997-98 Award of Achievement from the Puget Sound Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication for Proceedings of the Efficient Separations and Processing Crosscutting Program 1997 Technical Exchange Meeting
• Apex’95 Award of Excellence for the ER News, Communications Concepts
• 1993-94 Awards of Achievement for the ER News from the Washington, D.C. and Puget Sound Chapters of the Society for Technical Communication
• Named 1982 Communicator of the Year by the U.S. Treasury for U.S. Savings Bonds publicity campaign

PNNL Publications

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