The National Association of Science Writers (NASW) and its Education Committee is again sponsoring several exciting programs for student journalists during the AAAS Annual Meeting, being held next in Denver, Colo. Feb. 15-17, 2024.
Requirements: Students must be current NASW members. To participate, students must renew or apply to become a member by Feb. 1, 2024.
Note that signing up to view content on nasw.org is not the same as joining NASW. Please double check that you received confirmation of your NASW membership before signing up or arriving at the program venues.
Participants must also separately register for the AAAS Annual Meeting to attend sessions. NASW members receive complimentary registration to the AAAS Annual Meeting via AAAS Newsroom registration, so do not register for the AAAS Annual Meeting via regular registration.
Undergraduate Travel Fellowships: Apply online for an NASW Undergraduate Travel Fellowship to help with your travels to attend the 2024 AAAS Annual Meeting in Denver. The application deadline has been extended to Dec. 15, 2023. NASW travel fellowships will cover up to $1,000 each for up to 10 undergraduate students to attend the meeting. Travel fellows will report on a session of their choice, and their work will be published on the NASW website. Candidates who are selected must become student members of NASW by Feb. 1 to be eligible for the fellowship.
Undergraduate students from science majors as well as journalism and communications majors are welcome to apply for this fellowship.
Graduate students are ineligible for this travel fellowship and should apply for the opportunity below.
Watch this video to hear from past fellows about how the fellowship helped them in their science writing careers.
Graduate Travel Fellowships for Students in the Sciences: Apply online for an NASW Graduate Travel Fellowship to help with your travels to attend the 2024 AAAS Annual Meeting in Denver. The application deadline has been extended to Dec. 15, 2023. NASW travel fellowships will cover up to $1,000 each for up to two graduate students to attend the meeting. Applicants should be science graduate students who are considering a career in science writing. During the fellowship, travel fellows report on a session of their choice, and their work will be published on the NASW website. Candidates who are selected must become student members of NASW by Feb. 1 to be eligible for the fellowship.
Graduate students in the sciences are invited to apply for this fellowship. Participants applying for this funding should do so in the spirit of exploring science writing careers and skills, not as a means to solely attend the AAAS Annual Meeting.
Undergraduate students are ineligible for this travel fellowship, and should apply for the opportunity above.
NASW Mentoring Program: NASW will sponsor its popular Mentoring Program during the AAAS Annual Meeting, pairing students (both graduate and undergraduate) with senior journalists, public information officers, or other science writers interested in similar beats. To be eligible, participants must become NASW student members by Feb. 1, 2024. Students who would like to have a mentor may apply here.
FOR PROSPECTIVE MENTORS: Science writers who would like to volunteer and be matched with a mentee during the AAAS Annual Meeting weekend should sign up as a mentor here. NASW membership not required to participate, but all participants must adhere to the NASW Meeting Code of Conduct.
See you in February! Thank you in advance to all of our NASW member volunteers for your energy and enthusiasm to help welcome this newest cohort of student participants.
Questions? Contact NASW Education Committee Co-Chairs Czerne Reid and Ashley Yeager at education@nasw.org. Thank you to Czerne, Ashley, and other NASW member volunteers who spearhead our student programming year after year. And tag #SciWriStudent in your social media posts to join the conversation.
NASW student programming is organized by the National Association of Science Writers, and is not a program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. However, NASW extends its thanks to AAAS for its partnership over the years for providing meeting spaces during past Annual Meetings for NASW student programming.
Founded in 1934 with a mission to fight for the free flow of science news, NASW is an organization of ~ 2,800 professional journalists, authors, editors, producers, public information officers, students and people who write and produce material intended to inform the public about science, health, engineering, and technology. To learn more, visit www.nasw.org and follow NASW on LinkedIn.
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