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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 |
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| 2006 | Erika Engelhaupt National Public Radio, Washington, D.C. Philadelphia Inquirer University of Colorado, Boulder |
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| 2005 | Gavin McKeeking Colorado State University KUNC-FM, Greeley, Colorado Colorado State University |
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| 2004 | Rei Ueyama ? Sacramento Bee Cornell University |
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| 2003 | Carolyn Gramling
Graduate student, MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography WOSU-AM, Columbus, Ohio MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography |
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| 2002 | Cristina Rumbaitis-Del Rio
Graduate student, University of Colorado - Boulder, and freelance radio producer WOSU-AM, Columbus, Ohio University of Colorado - Boulder |
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| 2001 | Nyasha Morris
Freelance writer Cable News Network (CNN) Georgia Tech University |
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| 2000 | Matthew Carr Congressional Science Fellow, Washington, D.C. Dallas Morning News University of Washington |
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| 1999 |
Roberta Hotinski Carbon Mitigation Initiative Information Officer Princeton Environmental Institute Princeton University U.S. News & World Report Princeton University |
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| 1998 |
Marian Westley Researcher, NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton NJ Newsweek University of Hawaii at Manoa |
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| 1997 | Victoria Bruce
Freelance writer and filmmaker The Oregonian University of California at Riverside |
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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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