Congratulations to the #SciWri18 travel fellows

Congratulations to recipients of the ScienceWriters2018 travel grants. We're excited to welcome 35 travel fellows - from across the U.S. and the globe - to Washington, D.C. in just a few weeks. This year's awardees reflect and honor the international connections, enthusiasm, and interest created by last year's World Conference of Science Journalists.




2018 ScienceWriters Graduate Travel Grant Recipients
sponsored by the National Association of Science Writers

  • Gaius Augustus, University of Arizona
  • Larisa Bennett,University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Dani Leviss, New York University
  • Anuradha Varanasi, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism

2018 ScienceWriters Travel Grant Recipients
sponsored by the National Association of Science Writers

  • Matthew Blois, freelance, Tennessee
  • Jake Buehler, freelance, Washington
  • Tere Castro-Saldana, University of Texas at El Paso, Texas
  • Sudarsha De Silva, Earthlanka News Network, Sri Lanka
  • Patricia Fernandez, freelance, California
  • Liza Gross, freelance, California
  • Mirjam Guesgen, freelance, Canada
  • Avren Keating, PLOS, California
  • Elizabeth Suk-Hang Lam, freelance, Australia
  • Katherine Mast, freelance, New Mexico
  • Andrei Mihai, ZME Science, UK
  • Stephanie Parker, freelance, Switzerland
  • Emma Penrod, freelance, Utah
  • Ozge Okaya, BioNews Services, Turkey
  • Rosalia Omungo, Kenya Broadcasting Corporation, Kenya
  • Myriam Vidal Valero, Foro Consultivo Científico y Tecnológico, Mexico

2018 New Horizons Fellowship Recipients
sponsored by the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing

  • Carol Lawrence, Los Angeles Business Journal, California
  • Jacqueline Rocheleau, Yale School of Medicine, New York
  • Greer Russell, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois

2018 Regional Travel Fellowships
sponsored by the 10th World Conference of Science Journalists' Program Fund
Meet the Regional Travel Fellows here

  • Nora Bär, La Nación, Argentina
  • Mónica Baró Sanchez, Periodismo de Barrio, Cuba
  • Pablo Correa, El Espectador , Colombia
  • Eduardo Franco Berton, Mongabay Latam and Earth Journalism Network, Bolivia
  • Henrique Kugler, freelance, Brazil
  • Jessica Maes, HypeScience.com, Brazil
  • Helen Mendes Lima, Gazeta do Povo, Brazil
  • Rodrigo Pérez Ortega, freelance, Mexico
  • Sebastián Rodríguez, Semanario Universidad Costa Rica
  • Michelle Soto Mendez, freelance, Costa Rica
  • Laura Vargas-Parada, UNAM, Mexico
  • Alexa Vélez Suazo, Mongabay Latam, Peru
September 21, 2018

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Sharon Begley Science Reporting Award