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The MBL Science Journalism Program
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MBL Awards Journalism Fellowships for 2009
Biology “Boot Camp” to Provide Reporters with Hands-On Science Training in Woods Hole, Alaska, and Antarctica

About the Logan Science Journalism
Program at the MBL:
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Since 1888, the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, has been the summer home of experimental biology. Scientists from all over the world have come to teach, to learn, and to do research at the MBL, drawn here by the abundance of research specimens from the waters of Cape Cod.

The Logan Science Journalism Program at the MBL, now in its 23rd year, provides professional science journalists, editors, and broadcast journalists with a chance to forget about story deadlines and the latest breakthroughs, and instead immerse themselves in the process of basic biomedical and environmental research.

The experience is intensive: Journalists work hand in hand with laboratory investigators, and in many cases are given research projects of their own. They return to their jobs with a fuller sense of what it means to be a scientist, and a renewed sense of their mission as science journalists.

Choose Between Two Hands-on Laboratory Courses:
The program offers science journalists the choice between two introductory week-long intensive laboratory courses.

For further information contact:

Logan Science Journalism Program at the MBL
Marine Biological Laboratory
7 MBL Street
Woods Hole, MA 02543-1015
(508) 289-7423
e-mail: aearly@mbl.edu

A limited number of fellowships are available. Fellowship support covers the cost of tuition, housing, library use, and transportation.

SJP Co-Directors:
Robert D. Goldman, Northwestern University
Boyce Rensberger, Former Director, Knight Science Journalism Fellowships, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

SJP Administrative Director:
Andrea Early, Marine Biological Laboratory

Biomedical Hands-On Laboratory Co-Directors:
David Burgess, Boston College
Charles “Brad” Shuster, New Mexico State University

Polar Hands-On Lab Director:
Christopher Neill, MBL Ecosystems Center


The Logan Science Journalism Program at the MBL provides in-depth, behind-the-scenes, hands-on training unlike any other journalism fellowship program in existence today.