David L. Wheeler, the Editor at Large, Global, for The Chronicle of Higher Education, has a Master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and was awarded a Vannevar Bush Fellowship in science journalism at MIT. He has been with The Chronicle for 25 years, writing on topics ranging from poetry to quantum physics, and has won numerous awards. 

In the service of The Chronicle, he has attended academic conferences and visited campuses in more than 30 countries and made presentations around the world. He currently is focusing his reporting and writing on ways in which universities are teaming up to work on the world's most difficult problems, such as climate change, infectious disease, poverty, and illiteracy. His new blog on the Chronicle Web site, Planet Academe, (http://chronicle.com/blogs/planet/) offers an international lens on higher education.