Science journalists from the U.S., Australia and Switzerland, have been named as Knight Science Journalism Fellows for the 1997-98 academic year at MIT. The mid-career journalists work for newspapers, magazines, and television.
They will spend nine months at the Institute in group and individual
study. Among their group activities will be several field trips and approximately
55 seminars with faculty members on recent developments in science, technology,
medicine, and the environment.
Named fellows are:
Scott E. Allen, environment reporter, The Boston Globe. Mr. Allen is the author of recent articles on acid rain, nuclear energy, the forests of northern Maine, and the project to bring natural gas from beneath the sea off Nova Scotia to Boston.
Cathy Johnson, reporter and producer, Quantum, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Sydney. Ms. Johnson is a Rotary International scholar and twice won the Michael Daley award for science journalism.
Beth A. Livermore, science and health writer, New York City. Ms. Livermore wrote recently about science in Antarctica for Astronomy and Popular Science magazines. (NASW member)
Vivien A. Marx, science journalist and television producer, Frankfurt, Germany. Ms. Marx works for Germany's largest public network, ZDF, and for the Franco-German television venture, Arte. She writes for Popular Science, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and the Zuricher Tagesanzeiger.
Steven J. Nadis, science writer, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Mr. Nadis has written for the Atlantic Monthly, Nature, Science, Omni, Technology Review, and other magazines. He has written or contributed to numerous books. (NASW member)
Tom A. Paulson, science reporter, Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Mr. Paulson is author of a group of articles in February on the increasing ties between industry and academic science. (NASW member)
Reto Schneider, science editor, FACTS magazine, Zurich, Switzerland. Mr. Schneider has written recently on the search for planets around nearby stars, artificial intelligence, and robots.
Doug Stewart, science writer, Ipswich, Massachusetts. Mr. Stewart has written for Smithsonian, Omni, and National Wildlife.
The fellowships are an activity of the Program in Science, Technology, and Society in MIT's School of Humanities and Social Science. Since 1983, a total of 153 fellows have been selected for the program.
The members of the 1997 Selection Committee for the Knight Fellowships were: Bob Buderi of Cambridge, a fellow in 1986-87, and author of The Invention That Changed the World; Deborah Fitzgerald, associate professor of the history of technology at MIT, and author of The Business of Breeding: Hybrid Corn in Illinois; Victor K. McElheny, director of the Fellowships; Boyce Rensberger, editor, Horizon, The Washington Post, author of Life Itself: Exploring the Realm of the Living Cell; and Shawna Vogel, a fellow in 1991-92, and author of Naked Earth.
Since 1987, the principal sponsor has been the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation of Miami.
--Contributed by Victor K. McElheny
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