AAAS MASS MEDIA SCIENCE & ENGINEERING FELLOWS PROGRAM

The 2009 AAAS Mass Media Science & Engineering Fellowship application is now available online. Click here to download the 2009 application: http://www.aaas.org/programs/education/MassMedia/apply.shtml
The AAAS Mass Media Science & Engineering Fellowship seeks to increase communication skills in student scientists. From grant writing to interaction with their community, these skills will benefit a student's career path and increase public understanding of science and technology.

The Fellowship places senior undergraduate, graduate and post graduate science and engineering students at media sites nationwide to work as science reporters for ten weeks. By exposing reporters and editors to the expertise of student scientists, while also training those same students in the nuances of journalism, the program can improve the quality of information that is disseminated.

For more than 30 years the Fellowship has trained student scientists who have gone on to contribute to the larger scientific discussion including, Eric Lander, Founding Director The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT; Edward J. Weiler, Acting Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate, NASA; and Kenneth Chang and Erica Goode of the New York Times.

AAAS selects 15-20 Fellows each summer. There is a $4500 stipend plus travel expenses.

Deadline is January 15, 2009.

AAAS

Mass Media Science & Engineering Fellowship

1200 New York Ave., NW, Room 608

Washington, D.C. 20005

202-326-6441

Visit us online: http://www.aaas.org/programs/education/MassMedia/