Education and Experience in Brief

• Continuing education: attending an extensive list of scientific meetings and workshops for science writers (listed below)
• Graduate certificate, science writing, UC Santa Cruz, 1989
• Biology Education
  Master of Arts for Teachers in biology, University of Washington
  BA in zoology, University of Washington
  Teaching certificate in biology, University of Washington
• For details of experience, see Editing and Writing sections
• Research experience and some scientific illustration experience
  
• Teaching experience: middle school through university
• Résumé: Download a one-page résumé as a pdf file.

Red Oak Borer larva photographed at the 2004 CASW field trip

© 2004 Stephen Hart

Meetings, Symposia and Workshops

• New Horizons in Science, from the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing (CASW)
  1990, 1992-1994, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2004 (CASW 2004 photos)
• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  Attended various NASW workshops at each of these AAAS meetings, as well as covering scientific sessions.
  1989, 1990, 1995-1998, 2000
• NASW Workshops on Multimedia, 1998, 2000
  Panelists included: Jane Ellen Stevens, videojournalist, New York Times Television; Charlene Laino, MSNBC
• Publishing on the Web: A Stanford Workshop for Magazine, Book and Newspaper Professionals, 11/15-11/18, 1998
• Breakthrough! How News Influences Health Perception and Behavior
  Exploring the relationship between news media and the science of cancer—Cold Spring Harbor, 1998
• American Institute of Biological Sciences 1996
• American Society of Plant Biologists 1996
• American Society for Microbiology 1996
• American Medical Association Science Reporters Conference 1994
• Research to Prevent Blindness Science Writers Seminar 1993
• American College of Emergency Physicians 1992
• Sigma Xi Forum: Global Change and the Human Prospect 1991
• American Chemical Society Science Reporters Workshop 1991
• Bristol-Meyers Squibb Symposium on Cancer Research 1991
• International Congress of Human Genetics 1991
• American Lung Association Science Writers Forum 1989

Science Writing Education and Internships

• Graduate Certificate in Science Writing
  University of California, Santa Cruz 1989
  
• Journalism coursework — Peninsula College, Port Angeles, WA, 1988
• Science News Internship
  (National newsmagazine of science, 3 months, 1989)
  Two science features, 13 science news stories
• KUSP Radio Internship
  (NPR member station, Santa Cruz, CA, 2 months, 1988)
  Broadcast 15 general news stories
• Santa Cruz Sentinel Internship
  (daily newspaper, Santa Cruz, CA, 3 weeks, 1988)
  Five features, two news stories