Students of the UC-Santa Cruz Science Communication program had some some awesome and successful stories published recently – I hope you enjoy them as much as I did: Marissa Fessenden (@marisfessenden) wrote about an annoying speaking pattern among young women, called “vocal fry,” for a class news assignment. She successfully pitched the article to ScienceNOW, [...]

The graduate program in science writing at Johns Hopkins is housed along with the highly-ranked graduate programs in fiction and poetry in The Writing Seminars. So the science writing at Hopkins focuses not only on balanced and substantive reporting, but also on the craft and quality of writing.  The program, which began in the early 1980′s, [...]

The professional track master’s program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with its strong focus on science journalism, dates back to the 1960s, making it one of the oldest such programs in the country. Over the years, some of the country’s best known science journalists – including both William J. Broad and Jane Brody of The [...]

Guest post by Andrew Maynard. Studying for a Masters degree in Public Health prepares you for many things.  But it doesn’t necessarily give you hands-on experience of how to take complex information and translate it into something others can understand and use.  Yet as an increasing array of public health issues hit the headlines, from [...]

Scienceline, the website of the science writing students at NYU, now has a whole new editorial board and contributors – the previous generation has graduated and the new generation now has the reins and has started posting their first posts. Over the holidays, they posted a whole series of Top Ten and end-of-year lists that [...]

This is a guest post by Mary Beth Griggs. Scienceline’s editorial team spent the summer building an iPad app. Here’s how, and why we did it. Ah Summer vacation. A time for relaxing at the beach, grilling at backyard barbeques, lounging by the pool …  and, if you happen to be a Scienceline editor, spending [...]

Students are busy – there is a lot of excellent stuff to highlight this week: Ritchie King, of NYU, in New York Times: A Closer Look at Teeth May Mean More Fillings: Until 2010, Amelia Nuwer, 22, visited the same dentist every year in Biloxi, Miss., her hometown. And every year she came back with [...]

MIT Grad Program in Science Writing (Twitter, Facebook) is one of the strongest programs in the country, whose alumni include some of the most exciting new science writers on the scene. You can follow the ongoing work of the current students on their magazine/blog SCOPE, but here are some examples of the recent work by [...]

Just a quick look at the latest posts and articles on Scienceline, website run by the NYU SHERP students – a site you should keep an eye on, always busier in Fall when two generations overlap: Pumpkins of supernatural size: Growing pumpkins in which Cinderella could have ridden to the ball by Kelly Slivka: It’s [...]

Rachel Nuwer (Twitter, blog), from NYU’s SHERP program, has been writing regularly on the New York Times Green blog. Check out some of her recent posts there: A Photographic Call to Action: When Clyde Butcher first began exploring the Everglades in 1984, “there was virtually nothing to photograph — it was one big ditch,” he [...]