NCSE is pleased to congratulate Bill Nye ("The Science Guy") for receiving the National NASA Space Grant Distinguished Service Award for 2016. The award "was established to recognize individuals whose life and career have had a long[-]lasting impact in a science, engineering or education field that is related to aeronautic, aviation, or space endeavors," according to the National Council of Space Grant Directors.
The host of the popular science education television programs Bill Nye the Science Guy and The Eyes of Nye, the chief executive officer of the Planetary Society (the world's largest space interest organization), and a member of NCSE's Advisory Council, Nye is also the author (with Corey S. Powell) of Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation (2014) and Unstoppable: Harnessing Science to Change the World (2015).