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CASW opens entry window for 2023 awards, fellowships The Council for the Advancement of Science Writing is pleased to accept submissions for five academic fellowships and three major awards to be bestowed in 2023—including a $20,...

Propose a session for ScienceWriters2023 CASW invites science writers to propose a session on topics at the intersection of science and science writing as part of the New Horizons in Science program for ScienceWriters2023...

College students grieved losses other than death during the COVID-19 pandemic College campuses across the U.S. became ghost towns in 2020 during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. Students had to stay at home for months. Online learning enabled stude...

CASW elects Reid, Stone to board seats The Council for the Advancement of Science Writing is pleased to welcome two distinguished new members to its Board of Directors. Czerne Reid of the University of Florida and Richa...

CASW announces Antarctic expedition reporting opportunity The Council for the Advancement of Science Writing is pleased to announce a fellowship that will enable an early-career science journalist to accompany a major oceanographic expedi...

GEOTRACES Expedition Reporting Fellowship: Frequently Asked Questions The application deadline for the fellowship has passed. What is the purpose and nature of this fellowship? CASW and the scientists leading the GEOTRACES cruise to Antarctica seek t...

The robots are coming! Time for us to understand how they work — and don’t Ross Sowell is being followed. When he walks back and forth, his shadower walks back and forth. When he stops, it stops. When he turns, it turns. Suddenly, he jumps sideways. His s...

Bigger-than-expected Greenland ice caves could speed ice sheet movement into ocean Matt Covington hung from the edge of a Greenland ice cave, peering into its depths. He couldn’t see the bottom, hundreds of meters below—but he could hear it: running water and...

Contributions from ‘outsiders’ can benefit science, physicist-musician says Cosmologist and jazz musician Stephon Alexander asked for three volunteers from his audience of science writers and gave each a pitch at which to sing. With a wave of the hand he s...

Flu and COVID-19 will both surge this winter, but maybe not at the same time Flu is expected to make a comeback this winter after two years of being suppressed by COVID-19 control measures. But it’s unclear how the two respiratory diseases might interact ...

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