Next Summer, Get Your Hands On Science!
Application Deadline: March 1, 2008
Download an application
Since 1888, the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, has been the summer home of experimental biology. Scientists from all over the world have come to teach, to learn, and to do research at the MBL, drawn here by the abundance of research specimens from the waters of Cape Cod.
The MBL Science Journalism Program, now in its 23rd year, provides professional science journalists, editors, and broadcast journalists with a chance to forget about story deadlines and the latest breakthroughs, and instead immerse themselves in the process of basic biomedical and environmental research.
The experience is intensive: Journalists work hand in hand with laboratory investigators, and in many cases are given research projects of their own. They return to their jobs with a fuller sense of what it means to be a scientist, and a renewed sense of their mission as science journalists.
Choose Between Two Hands-on Laboratory Courses:
The 2008 program offers science journalists the choice between two introductory week-long intensive laboratory courses.
For further information contact:
MBL Science Journalism Program
Marine Biological Laboratory
7 MBL Street
Woods Hole, MA 02543-1015
(508) 289-7423
e-mail: ghebert@mbl.edu
A limited number of Science Journalism Fellowships are available. Fellowship support covers the cost of tuition, housing, library use, and transportation. Equipment may be available to broadcast journalists who wish to film while in Woods Hole.
SJP Co-Directors:
Robert D. Goldman, Northwestern University
Boyce Rensberger, Knight Science Journalism Fellowships, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
SJP Administrative Director:
Pamela Clapp Hinkle, Marine Biological Laboratory
Biomedical Hands-On Laboratory Co-Directors:
Kerry Bloom, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Chad Pearson, University of Colorado at Boulder
Polar Hands-On Lab Director:
Christopher Neill, MBL Ecosystems Center
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The MBL’s Science Journalism Program provides in-depth, behind-the-scenes, hands-on training unlike any other journalism fellowship program in existence today.
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