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2016 graduate fellowship applications due by March 20
CASW is now accepting applications for Taylor/Blakeslee University Fellowships for the 2016-17 year.
Underwritten by a grant from the Brinson Foundation, these competitive $5,000 fellowships support professional journalists and students of outstanding ability who are enrolled in graduate-level programs in science writing. They are the only national awards offered specifically to students in U.S. science-writing graduate... more
CASW News
U.S. science writers announce dates, venue, partners for 2017 World Conference of Science Journalists
CAMBRIDGE, MA (October 10, 2015) — The 10th World Conference of Science Journalists, expected to bring more than 1,200 journalists from around the world to San Francisco, has been scheduled for October 26... more
Video of 2015 Patrusky Lecture available
Yale microbiologist and White House official Jo Handelsman gave a sweeping presentation on microbiome research to science writers attending CASW's 53rd New Horizons in Science briefings at MIT on Oct. 11... more
Madhumita Venkataramanan wins Evert Clark/Seth Payne Award
The winner of the 2015 Evert Clark/Seth Payne Award, an annual prize for young science journalists, is Madhumita Venkataramanan, now head of technology coverage for the Telegraph in London. ... more
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter Mark Johnson awarded 2015 Victor Cohn Prize for medical science journalism
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel science and medical reporter Mark Johnson, a career newspaper journalist whose work is marked by its scientific breadth, human impact and storytelling verve, is the recipient of... more
News & Numbers
"News & Numbers"—a guidebook for reporting statistical claims and controversies in health and other fields—is now available in a third, updated edition. CASW played a major role... more
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