Eight newspaper and magazine reporters of science, medicine, and the environment from the United States, Germany and Japan will spend nine months at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in group and individual study as the 1996-97 Knight Science Journalism Fellows.
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.
Fellows named were William H. Allen, 44, science writer, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Nancy R. Bazilchuk, 39, environment and science writer, The Burlington Free Press in Vermont; Madeline Drexler, 41, of Watertown, Massachusetts, medical columnist, The Boston Globe Magazine; Ruth C. Flanagan, 31, of Madison, Wisconsin, contributing editor, Earth magazine; Mark A. Grossi, 42, environment reporter, The Fresno Bee; Carola Hanisch, 27, editor, economy, social affairs, and science, Markische Allgemeine, Potsdam, Germany; Asako Murakami, 32, environment staff writer, national news desk, The Japan Times, Tokyo; and Gary A. Taubes, 40, of New York City, contributing correspondent, Science magazine.
The 1996 Selection Committee for the Knight Fellowships was: Jerry E. Bishop, deputy news editor at The Wall Street Journal; Deborah Fitzgerald, associate professor of the History of Technology, MIT Program in Science, Technology, and Society; Ann Gibbons, contributing correspondent, Science magazine; Robert Lee Hotz, science reporter, Los Angeles Times; and Kathy Sawyer, science and space reporter, The Washington Post.
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