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Events Juan Gilbert to present 14th Patrusky Lecture Award-winning computer scientist will speak about hack-proof voting at ScienceWriters2026
Awards & Fellowships Jane Qiu wins 2026 Sharon Begley Award Qiu is the fifth winner and first international recipient
Events SciWri2026 full program is live Registration will open August 4

In Memoriam

Cohn Prize honoree Helen Branswell remembered for sharp, authoritative reporting CASW mourns the loss of Helen Branswell, a winner of the Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Science Reporting and a journalist known for deca...

Awards & Fellowships

Kai Kupferschmidt wins 2026 Victor Cohn Prize Kai Kupferschmidt, a contributing correspondent for Science magazine, has been named the winner of the 2026 Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medica...

Awards & Fellowships

Elise Cutts wins 2026 Evert Clark/Seth Payne Award The winner of the 2026 Evert Clark/Seth Payne Award, the annual prize for young science journalists awarded by the Council for the Advancement of Scie...

Awards & Fellowships

Jane Qiu wins 2026 Sharon Begley Award Independent Chinese science journalist Jane Qiu has been awarded the 2026 Sharon Begley Award for Science Reporting. The award, established in 2021 by...

CASW News

Computer scientist Juan Gilbert to present 14th Patrusky Lecture Distinguished and award-winning computer scientist Juan Gilbert will discuss hack-proof voting and other innovative ways to apply computer science to ...

Awards & Fellowships

Seven journalists awarded fellowships to study science writing Seven journalists who’ve covered science and the environment across the country are headed to graduate programs in science journalism aided by T...