Boyce Rensberger of The Washington Post has been named Director
of the Knight Science Journalism Fellowships
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, effective July 1.
A winner of the Alicia Patterson Fellowship and a two-time winner of the AAAS science journalism award, Rensberger has been a science reporter for the Detroit Free Press, The New York Times, and The Post, where he served as science editor. He also was head writer for the public television series, “3-2-1 Contact,” and a senior editor of the monthly magazine, Science 81-84.
For the last seven years, he has been co-director of the Science Writing Fellowships Program each summer at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. He created in 1994 and is editor of “Horizon: The Learning Section,” a monthly supplement to The Washington Post.
He will succeed Victor K. McElheny, the founding Director of the Knight Fellowships, who is retiring.
The Knight Foundation support began in 1987 with a $3.25 million grant for seven years’ operations, followed by a five-year, $5 million challenge calling for $2.5 million in matching funds from MIT.
(Adapted from an article by Kenneth D. Campbell in the February 25, 1998 issue of MIT Tech Talk.)
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