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Awards & Fellowships SHERF program accepting applications Deadline for National Science-Health-Environment Reporting Fellowships is 12/19
New Horizons in Science Science students report on SciWri2025 Coverage of sessions on RNA, quantum information and more
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CASW News

Science students report on RNA, quantum information and more at ScienceWriters2025 At ScienceWriters2025, eight science graduate students jumped into journalism to cover the 63rd annual New Horizons in Science briefings and the 13th ...

SHERF

Applications open for SHERF: A development program for U.S.-based, early-career journalists The Council for the Advancement of Science Writing, the Society of Environmental Journalists and the Association of Health Care Journalists together a...

Patrusky Lectures

Quantum scientist David Awschalom to present 13th Patrusky Lecture David Awschalom plans to share his insights about how quantum information science and technology are reshaping our everyday lives when he delivers the...

Awards & Fellowships

Charles Piller wins 2025 Victor Cohn Prize Charles Piller, an investigative journalist for Science Magazine, has been named the winner of the 2025 Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Sc...

Awards & Fellowships

Max Kozlov wins 2025 Evert Clark/Seth Payne Award Max Kozlov at Nature has won the 2025 Evert Clark/Seth Payne Award, CASW’s annual prize for a young science journalist, for his reporting on the Tru...

Awards & Fellowships

Emily Sohn wins 2025 Sharon Begley Award for Science Reporting Freelance journalist Emily Sohn has been selected as the winner of the 2025 Sharon Begley Award for Science Reporting. The award, established in 2021 ...