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2009 ATKINSON FELLOWSHIP SERIES: BRAINSTORM, BY ALANNA MITCHELL (NOV 2)ATKINSON FELLOWSHIP SERIES: BRAINSTORM 
Alanna Mitchell, this year's Atkinson Fellowship recipient, is pictured at the Institute of Child Study. STEVE RUSSELL/TORONTO STARAlanna Mitchell, a Toronto-based writer and journalist who specializes in global science issues, spent much of the past year investigating the controversial push to use brain science to improve education. She travelled to England, France, Australia and the U.S. as part of her 2008 Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy.
The author of two books —Sea Sick: The Global Ocean In Crisis andDancing at the Dead Sea: Tracking the World’s Environmental Hotspots— Mitchell spent much of the past year investigating the controversial push to use brain science to improve education.
She travelled to England, France, Australia and the U.S. as part of her 2008 Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy, a $75,000 prize with an expense budget of up to $25,000. The fellowship, sponsored by The Atkinson Charitable Foundation, the Toronto Star and the Honderich family, aims to further liberal journalism in the tradition of legendary Star publisher Joseph E. Atkinson. Brainstorm SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY
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