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| Volume 46, Number 2, Fall 1998 |
CASW has awarded four Rennie Taylor/Alton Blakeslee Fellowships for Graduate Study in science writing. They are:
Tina L. Hesman is going to Boston University’s master degree program in science journalism. A Fulbright fellow, she is earning a PhD in genetics from Washington University.
Jenny M. Liu is attending Columbia University in a dual master’s degree in Earth and Environmental Sciences and graduate school of journalism. She obtained her bachelor’s degree from Wellesley College.
Naomi Beth Lubick is attending Columbia University’s Earth and Environmental Journalism Program and received her bachelor’s from Carleton College in Minnesota. She was employed by Annual Reviews and Black Oak Books.
Bryn David Nelson is enrolled in University of California, Santa Cruz, program in Science Communication. He has just received his PhD from University of Washington in Microbiology.
The scholarships are $2000 each. Support for the fellowship derives largely from a special bequest made to CASW by the American Tentative Society, which, for three decades, played an important role in promoting public understanding of science and the scientific process. The fellowships honor the late Rennie Taylor, a science writer for Associated Press, whose estate provided the funds for the establishment of ATS, and Alton Blakeslee, former science editor of Associated Press, who served as CASW’s longtime president.