Fellowships and workshops

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    Where to find journalism funding

    The National Association of Science Writers is pleased to announce a new resource for science journalists — the Funding Sources database. Available to all NASW members, the database was developed by member Madeline Bodin. It includes grants, fellowships, and other types of funding for which science writers may qualify. For information about joining NASW and taking advantage of the Funding Sources database, please see our membership benefits page.

  • Journalism Boot Camp “From Planets to Cosmos” June 24-27, 2012

    Applications are now open for the UC-HiPACC Science/Engineering Journalism Boot Camp “Computational Astronomy: From Planets to Cosmos” on June 24–27, 2012—an intensive immersion backgrounder for 12 to 16 journalists from all media, whether on staff or freelance.

  • Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism

    The Carter Center in Atlanta, GA provides six one-year fellowships for journalists to report on a selected topic regarding mental health or mental illnesses. The Fellowships are designed to increase accurate reporting on mental health issues and decrease incorrect, stereotypical information. Each journalist awarded will receive a $10,000 stipend.

  • Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings travel funding

    Looking for ways to cover science on a tight travel budget? For the fifth year in a row, the Council for the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings invites NASW members who are working journalists or freelancers attending on assignment from a media outlet to apply for travel funding to attend the Lindau Meeting. Deadline: April 4.

  • Submit a workshop proposal for ScienceWriters2012

    We need your help to ensure that educators, staff writers, freelancers, public information officers, students, writers, editors, early career, late career, new members and veterans find something to fit their needs among the workshops. Workshops can be targeted at a specific group, e.g. a master class or newbies, or creatively crafted in such a way as to be applicable to the larger mission and themes of NASW. Read on for details on how to submit a proposal and put yours in by March 1.

  • 2012 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Ocean Science Journalism Fellowship

    WHOI Ocean Science Journalism Fellowships were established in 2000, and the next program will be held from September 9-14, 2012. The OSJ program is designed to introduce science journalists to the interdisciplinary and wide-ranging fields of oceanography and ocean engineering. All applications and supporting materials must arrive by mail no later than May 15, 2012.

  • Harvard Medical School Media Fellowship

    Harvard Medical School’s media fellowship program is entering its fifteenth season. This spring’s two fellowship programs are Beyond Personalized Medicine: Inherited disease in the age of the $1000 genome (April 2-6) and Know Thyself: Autoimmunity, a biomedical identity crisis (April 30-May 4).

    For a one-week period, three fellows will visit researchers at the medical school and at its affiliated teaching hospitals and research institutes, meeting with a broad spectrum of

  • Knight-Wallace Fellows at Michigan

    The Knight-Wallace Fellows program provides outstanding midcareer professionals the opportunity for a sabbatical year of study. Fellows receive tuition plus a $70,000 stipend for the eight-month academic year and pursue studies of their own design. All full-time journalists, with five years' experience, are eligible.

  • Kiplinger Fellowship

    Kiplinger Fellowship in social media

    The Kiplinger Fellowship at Ohio State University offers hands-on training in social media and data journalism -- all at no cost. Fellows will spend April 15-20, 2012 on Ohio State's main campus in Columbus, Ohio -- immersed in intensive, hands-on training. We’ll talk Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, video, deep Web searches, public records and data journalism.

  • 2012 MBL Science Journalism Program

    Two Great Fellowship Opportunities! The Science Journalism Program at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is now accepting applications for two fellowships in Spring 2012. Biomedical or Environmental...the choice is yours!