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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...
Events
CASW to present workshop on covering climate and health Nov. 8
Application deadline extended to Friday, August 16. Journalists who cover topics at the intersection of climate change and health are invited to apply...
Events
Biologist Joseph L. Graves Jr. to present 12th Patrusky Lecture
Biologist Joseph L. Graves Jr., whose work spans the evolution of aging and microbial evolution and takes on the scourge of racism, has been selected ...
Awards & Fellowships
Journalists supported by CASW publish stories on Antarctic treks, nuclear power, and more
For more than two months, science journalist Sofia Moutinho cruised through Antarctic waters on an icebreaker, watching closely as scientists in the G...
Connector
Connector Chat debunks misinformation myths
Why do people share false stories? What can journalists and communicators do to debunk scientific misinformation? These topics and much more were cove...
Awards & Fellowships