Sentences with phrase «science writing program»

I graduated from MIT's science writing program in 2004.

I graduated from MIT's science writing program in 2004.

She graduated from the science writing program at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Anecdotally, Irion has observed that the graduates of science writing programs reflect the state of diversity in science.

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By summer the development staff had working demos of Sammy's Science House, the third in Edmark's early - learning line; Thinkin» Things 2, the second in its critical - thinking line for 4 - to 8 - year - olds; and the first two titles in a line called Imagination Express, a series of interactive story - writing programs for 6 - to 12 - year - olds.

The program has been written for teachers by teachers, and meets the expectations as outlined in the Ontario curriculum for Science.

► The secret to the success of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which «is supposed to make sure the U.S. military holds a technological edge over its enemies» and «has earned a reputation for using out - of - the - box thinking,» «is its cadre of program managers,» Mervis wrote in a feature in this week's issue of Science.

Many graduate school programs within the sciences the social sciences require students to do a considerable amount of research, culminating with a written thesis, or dissertation.

Before going to work for NOAA, Price worked on a big challenge in computer science: developing a prototype system that enables people to create computer programs using normal written English sentences.

The award program, now in its 12th year, seeks to encourage the writing and publishing of high - quality science books that engage readers across all age groups and leave readers with a richer understanding of all corners of science.

It should be tried out on an experimental basis; though generally I favor the «strong PO» (program officer) model who is enfranchised to make daring choices,» Frodeman writes in an e-mail to Science Careers.

As far as I know, not a single graduate science program in the world demands that their students take a course in science writing.

Other components of the program are educational and research opportunities, mentoring, a science - writing workshop, career counseling and guidance, and financial support for students accepted into a graduate - level program.

Bry «has developed a highly innovative and nationally recognized system to use the biological samples obtained routinely in the course of clinical care as the basis of population - based discovery research,» Isaac «Zak» Kohane, director of the Children's Hospital Informatics Program and professor of pediatrics and health sciences and technology at Harvard Medical School, writes in an e-mail.

Humanities students and postdocs are just as much in need of the I - RITE program as people in the sciences are, and not just from the writing perspective.

While pursuing her project on how environmental contaminants and oxidative stress cause lung cancer, Gelhaus complemented her postdoctoral training by spending some time with other PIs at Penn. «She has worked hard to develop skills that are independent of those available in my own laboratory while working on a project that is central to my research program,» Blair writes in an e-mail to Science Careers.

Whether it is helping a teacher to troubleshoot a kit in the classroom, helping a fellow scientist to find an age - appropriate science activity to do with an eighth - grade classroom, or telling funders why our programs are worth funding, writing and communication skills are key to our work.

Already, «MRC has used the outputs of the report to develop the MRC Skill Priorities which apply across all existing support mechanisms, with further discussions on improving support for skill priority areas underway,» write Joanna Robinson, a program manager at MRC, and Clare Bhunnoo, strategy and policy manager at BBSRC, jointly, in an e-mail to Science Careers.

For scientists who want to give science writing a try, check out the 10 - week summer AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Pscience writing a try, check out the 10 - week summer AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows PScience and Engineering Fellows Program.

She taught science writing at Johns Hopkins University's Advanced Academic Programs.

Yet, for now at least, graduates of science - writing programs seem to be finding jobs.

• Also in News & Analysis, Jeffrey Mervis writes about the National Science Foundation's (NSF's) decision to cancel this year's round of funding for political science while keeping the program inScience Foundation's (NSF's) decision to cancel this year's round of funding for political science while keeping the program inscience while keeping the program in place.

He explored teaching - focused faculty posts (these, too, he learned, typically involve writing papers and grant proposals, though not as much), running science - outreach programs (ditto on the grant proposals), business development, and management consulting.

«For an agency regularly called «adrift» without a mission, NASA will at least float through next year with a boatload of money for its science programs,» he wrote.

While Steve's at the conference of the World Federation of Science Journalists in London, we look ahead to some of the programming coming your way in the coming weeks, and we replay our 2007 interview with surgeon Atul Gawande, whose recent research in The New England Journal of Medicine and writing in The New Yorker have caused a big stir in the medical and health care reform communities.

It is that time of year when I'd be remiss not to highlight all the amazing Science Notes articles written as final projects by students of the Science Communication Program at UC Santa Cruz.

He regularly presents science and engineering programming for BBC and frequently writes and presents radio programs on a diverse array of subjects.

He has been a staff writer at Science since 2005 and has been writing for a living since 1999, when he completed the Science Communication Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

The reason, they say, is that people could write equations on boards rather than see characters hunched over their screens, but I think they also thought that science is just intrinsically more interesting, and it catches your imagination more than computer programming.

The online book chapter entitled Research Programs on Nanotechnology in the World, written by Mihail Roco of the National Science Foundation, contains a brief overview of who is investing in nanotechnology in several countries.

► The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is launching a new program to «attract and retain more minority students» in the sciences, Jeffrey Mervis wrote Tuesday.

Unlike the NSF - AIRE fellows at Colby, Girdler wrote her own proposal for postdoc funding from the now defunct Postdoctoral Fellowships in Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology Education (PFSMETE) program.

► During a December meeting in Havana, organized by AAAS and the Cuban Neuroscience Center, scientists from the United States and Cuba «discussed a biomedical research fellows exchange program for early and midcareer scientists in both countries,» Becky Ham wrote in the AAAS News & Notes section in this week's Science.

Original written by Bill Hubscher, International Space Station Program Science Office.

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Even if you're not in a formal program, as you prepare to re-enter the work force, take some time to learn about topics such as networking skills, presentation skills, science writing, work / life balance, and preparing job application packages.

«[A] lthough some lawmakers worried that DOE's request tilts too far toward applied research in its science programs, their grilling of Moniz on science was relatively light,» she wrote.

But increasingly career choices take scientists not just away from academia but away from the bench altogether — into areas like science writing and editing, public relations, science policy, scientific program or grant management, science teaching, patent law, and venture capital.

DiChristina teaches science writing in the graduate program at New York University and is a past president of the National Association of Science Writers (NASW), a professional organization of science journalists and communiscience writing in the graduate program at New York University and is a past president of the National Association of Science Writers (NASW), a professional organization of science journalists and communiScience Writers (NASW), a professional organization of science journalists and communiscience journalists and communicators.

• In the News Focus section of Science this week, Robert Irion, who directs the Science Communication Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz, writes about a private foundation that is raising money for a space mission to find asteroids that could harm Earth.

The March «presents... a very real, high - profile opportunity to call on our elected leaders to remember the role science plays in our society and to support scientific innovation and discovery, and the people and programs that make it possible,» wrote AGU CEO Chris McEntee.

Ever eager to do our part, Science Careers in this feature goes beyond the grant - writing basics to offer guidance from grant writers, grant reviewers, and agency program officers on how to present your proposal in the best possible light.

► NIH's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program «gave out three - quarters of a billion dollars this year,» Jeffrey Mervis wrote in this week's issue of Science.

Wendy Ingram, who co-founded a well - being and mental health peer support network when she was a graduate student at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, after a dear friend in her program died by suicide due to depression, agrees that «more academic institutions are taking steps to tackle mental health issues,» she writes in an email to Science Careers.

Being a rotator can be a heady experience for an academic, says John Conway, who recently retired as a mathematics professor at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. «When you first start work here you are often told that you make recommendations only,» Conway wrote in 2005 about serving as a program officer (PO) in NSF's division of mathematics sciences.

Ginger Pinholster, director of the Office of Public Programs for AAAS (the publisher of ScienceInsider), wrote in a statement (see below) that the Curiosity papers were published subject to Science's usual conditions.

For example, Geoff Gadd, a geomicrobiologist at the University of Dundee in the United Kingdom, who has a part - time award for work at the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography in Urumqi, wrote Science that he has not received a resettlement subsidy or any information about the program in English.

Liu, the young researcher at COER, wrote in an e-mail to Science that the center didn't address the subsidy in the contract because «we did not know» that the short - term Thousand Talents program included a subsidy.

The White House has not taken a position on the legislation, but Science has learned that budget officials asked NSF earlier this year to write a stern letter opposing the program.

As the fifth John Bahcall Public Policy Fellow, Josh focused his energies on building bridges between the astronomical science and policy communities through writing, speaking, and member - focused programs.