New Horizons
Traveling Fellowships

Details

CASW offers Traveling Fellowships, of up to $1,200 each, to cover the costs of attending the New Horizons in Science briefing . The fellowships are intended primarily for U.S. journalists from publications and broadcast outlets that do not routinely cover major science meetings or employ a full-time science writer. CASW also assigns a veteran science writer to each fellow to serve as mentor and to help ease his/her way through the program.

The New Horizons Traveling Fellowship Program is currently being underwritten by a grant from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund.

Taylor/Blakeslee
University Fellowships
Past recipients
CASW awards fellowships to students enrolled in U.S. graduate-level science writing programs to help defray the cost of tuition. Applicants must be U.S. citizens.

The fellowship honors the memory of Rennie Taylor, a science writer for Associated Press, whose estate provided funds for the establishment of the American Tentative Society, and Alton Blakeslee, former science editor of AP, who served as ATS's longtime president. Awards of $2,000 are available to fellows selected on the basis of a national competition.
Application

McGrady/Allard Travel Grants
CASW occasionally makes funds available to aspiring science journalists (including those in graduate science writing programs) to help underwrite the costs of travel to other major science meetings. Applicants must be U.S. citizens.

Income from the Patrick McGrady/Leo Allard Fund, which was established as part of a bequest to CASW from the American Tentative Society, supports the enterprise. McGrady, (now deceased) and Leo Allard played key roles in the evolution of ATS, a not-for-profit organization that for three decades (until its dissolution in 1994) served to promote public understanding of science and the scientific process.
Contact Diane McGurgan for details.