AAAS/AGU Mass Media Fellowship Program

Each year, AGU sponsors one university student in the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellowship program, which provides ten weeks of work experience at a newspaper, magazine, broadcast or cable news department, or website.

For additional information on the program, including application instructions and a link to the brochure and application, visit the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program website: http://ehrweb.aaas.org/massmedia.htm.

The deadline for receipt of 2007 applications will be 15 January 2007. Candidates will receive final notification of the status of their applications by 15 April 2007.

Past AGU Mass Media Fellows

The following list contains the year of receipt, name of the recipient, current position, the media outlet to which the recipient was assigned, and their affiliation when accepted into the program.

 2009 Erika Schielke
KUNC-FM, Greeley, Colorado
Yale University

 2008 Brian Johnson
National Public Radio, Washington, DC
Haverford College

 2008 Jonathan Hickman
WOSU-AM, Columbus, Ohio
Stony Brook University

 2007 Benjamin Larson
The Oregonian, Portland, Oregon
Ohio State University

 2006 Erika Engelhaupt
National Public Radio, Washington, D.C.
Philadelphia Inquirer
University of Colorado, Boulder

 2005 Gavin McKeeking
Colorado State University
KUNC-FM, Greeley, Colorado
Colorado State University

 2004 Rei Ueyama
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Sacramento Bee
Cornell University

 2003 Carolyn Gramling
Graduate student, MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography
WOSU-AM, Columbus, Ohio
MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography

 2002 Cristina Rumbaitis-Del Rio
Graduate student, University of Colorado - Boulder, and freelance radio producer
WOSU-AM, Columbus, Ohio
University of Colorado - Boulder

 2001 Nyasha Morris
Freelance writer
Cable News Network (CNN)
Georgia Tech University

 2000 Matthew Carr
Congressional Science Fellow, Washington, D.C.
Dallas Morning News
University of Washington

 1999 Roberta Hotinski
Carbon Mitigation Initiative Information Officer
      Princeton Environmental Institute
      Princeton University
U.S. News & World Report
Princeton University

 1998 Marian Westley
Researcher, NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton NJ
Newsweek
University of Hawaii at Manoa

1997 Victoria Bruce
Freelance writer and filmmaker
The Oregonian
University of California at Riverside
The following articles from Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union describe the experiences of recent AAAS/AGU Mass Media Fellows and provide unique insights from scientists who have spent a summer learning to be messengers. Their experiences illustrate the false expectations and challenges in communicating a message that are faced by novice scientists in addition to providing pointers for improving communication.

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