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New Horizons in Science 2024 New Horizons Newsroom is live CASW fellows covered ScienceWriters2024
Awards & Fellowships Usha Lee McFarling awarded Cohn Prize Honored for commitment to exposing healthcare disparities
CASW News Meaghan Parker to be CASW executive director Succeeds Rosalind Reid October 1
Awards & Fellowships Hannah Furfaro wins Sharon Begley Award $20,000 grant to Seattle journalist will fund project on rare diseases

CASW News

CASW fellows cover ScienceWriters2024: Read their stories Among the audiences at the November ScienceWriters2024 meeting in Raleigh, N.C., were 17 CASW-supported reporters diligently taking notes and conducti...

Awards & Fellowships

Nineteen journalists awarded grants to attend ScienceWriters2024 Seven journalists working across the United States have been selected to receive CASW New Horizons Travel Fellowships to support their participation i...

Awards & Fellowships

Usha Lee McFarling awarded 2024 Victor Cohn Prize Usha Lee McFarling (@ushamcfarling), national science correspondent at STAT, has been selected to receive the 2024 Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in...

Awards & Fellowships

Jason Mast wins 2024 Evert Clark/Seth Payne Award Jason Mast at STAT has won the 2024 Evert Clark/Seth Payne Award, CASW’s annual prize for a young science journalist, for his reporting at the inter...

CASW News

CASW announces Meaghan Parker as next executive director The Council for the Advancement of Science Writing (CASW) is pleased to name Meaghan E. Parker as the organization’s next executive director, effect...

Awards & Fellowships

Hannah Furfaro wins Sharon Begley Award for Science Reporting Hannah Furfaro (@hannahfurfaro), mental health reporter for The Seattle Times, has been selected as the winner of the 2024 Sharon Begley Award for Sci...