Aleszu Bajak says he always wanted to be a biologist. He explored the Galapagos Islands with his grandmother when he was a teenager, and later pursued his undergraduate degree in biology at Amherst College. But after stints building viruses at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York and consulting on biotechnology for a New York-based hedge fund, Aleszu […]
Buried in the Data, A Wealth of Stories
At the 2015 National Association of Science Writers meeting, journalists and other writers took time out for a panel session on one of the hottest topics in journalism today: Data.
Small Scale, Big Ideas: Kavli & KSJ Present Nanotechnology 2015
Journalists from around the country will descend on the offices of the Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT for the KSJ/Kavli Nanotechnology 2015 workshop.
JASON PALMER, ’14
Jason Palmer says he became interested in science journalism after years as an ultrafast laser scientist at Lawrence Livermore Lab in the U.S. and Imperial College in Britain — a time that instilled in him, as he describes it, a “fear of dark laboratories.” As an antidote, he began freelance writing while doing postdoctoral work […]