Bill Hammack's work has been recognized by an extra- ordinarily broad range of scientific, engineering, and journalistic professional societies. From his engineering peers he's been recognized with the ASME's Church Medal, IEEE's Distinguished Literary Contributions Award, ASEE's President's Medal, and the AIChE's Service to Society Award. From the journalists he has won the trifecta of the top science/engineering journalism awards: The National Association of Science Writer's coveted Science in Society Award; the American Chemical Society's Grady-Stack Medal and the American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award -- all typically given to journalists. A leader in using mass media to communicate engineering to the public, he teaches Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Ilinois - Urbana.