Boot Camps
Monday, March 20, 2006 - Thursday, March 23, 2006
As savvy journalists know, several fields of human endeavor are joining -- or more often, colliding -- on the fast-moving frontier of medical research and treatment using human embryonic stem cells. Sometimes it seems that to cover this well, you need to be not just a science or medical writer, but a religion writer, a specialist in law and the courts, and a political writer.
To help journalists make sense of it all, MIT's Knight Science Journalism Fellowships is joining...
Monday, November 28, 2005 - Friday, December 2, 2005
One of the most difficult challenges facing journalists who cover health is the uncertainty of nearly all medical evidence. Many studies come to contradictory conclusions, yet the public's interest in medical news and the need for reliable health information is growing.
To help journalists make sense of all this, MIT's Knight Science Journalism Fellowships program is offering an intensive course on how to evaluate medical evidence.
Boot Camp will...
Sunday, March 20, 2005 - Thursday, March 24, 2005
As ties between industrial and academic science grow stronger, so do conflicts of interest. As political leaders stack scientific panels or cite research findings with self-interested selectivity, the people who decide public policy are forced to make ill-informed choices.
It is no longer enough that science reporters serve as good translators of scientific jargon. They must also apply the tools of investigative journalism by probing deeper, asking tougher questions and...
Sunday, November 28, 2004 - Friday, December 3, 2004
One of the most difficult challenges facing journalists who cover health is the uncertainty of nearly all medical evidence. Many studies come to contradictory conclusions, yet the public's interest in medical news and the need for reliable health information is growing.
To help journalists make sense of all this, MIT's Knight Science Journalism Fellowships program is offering an intensive course on how to evaluate medical evidence.
Boot Camp will...
Sunday, March 28, 2004 - Thursday, April 1, 2004
The final frontier in the life sciences is the human mind. How do we learn, remember and think? Are the mind and brain different things? What causes Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases? What causes psychosis? What are the biological mechanisms underlying addiction? Can we ever understand consciousness?
With new techniques for studying living brains, many scientists now say we are beginning to understand mental processes that once seemed beyond comprehension....
Sunday, November 30, 2003 - Thursday, December 4, 2003
One of the most difficult challenges facing journalists who cover health, medicine or science is the uncertainty of nearly all medical evidence. As if that weren't bad enough, many studies seem downright contradictory. And yet the public's interest in medical news and its need for reliable health information keeps growing.
To help journalists make sense of all this, MIT's Knight Science Journalism Fellowship is offering a four-day course on how to evaluate...
Monday, December 2, 2002 - Monday, December 9, 2002
Genes. Mutations. Genomics.
Genetic engineering. Biotechnology.
Cells. Stem cells. Tissue engineering. Cloning.
All are increasingly important topics in the news -- full of dramatic promise, riven by ethical and legal challenges. All are technically difficult fields that cannot be covered well without a deep understanding. And all are certain to generate bigger stories for many years to come.
MIT and its Knight Science Journalism Fellowships program are...
Sunday, March 31, 2002 - Friday, April 5, 2002
One of the most difficult challenges facing journalists who cover health, medicine or science is the uncertainty of nearly all medical evidence. As if that weren't bad enough, many studies seem downright contradictory. And yet the public's interest in medical news and its need for reliable health information keeps growing.
To help journalists make sense of all this, MIT's Knight Science Journalism Fellowship is offering a four-day course on how to evaluate...
Sunday, December 2, 2001 - Sunday, December 9, 2001
Genes. Mutations. Genomics.
Genetic engineering. Biotechnology.
Cells. Stem cells. Tissue engineering. Cloning.
All are increasingly important topics in the news -- full of dramatic promise, riven by ethical and legal challenges. All are technically difficult fields that cannot be covered well without a deep understanding. And all are certain to generate bigger stories for many years to come.
MIT and its Knight Science Journalism Fellowships program are...
Tuesday, April 24, 2001 - Saturday, April 28, 2001
MIT and its Knight Science Journalism Fellowship program are offering a four-day intensive course in global climate change, taught by several top researchers and teachers.
The course will begin with the fundamentals -- how Earth's climate works and how both human and natural processes may be affecting the system. You'll learn how scientists build climate models, what the models show, and where current research is headed.
Then we'll examine the...
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