• New Orleans Science Editing Workshop

    Roosevelt Hotel 130 Roosevelt Way, New Orleans, LA, United States

    The Knight Science Journalism fellowship program at MIT, thanks to a generous grant by the Los Angeles-based Kavli Foundation, hosted an expenses-covered science editing workshop Sept. 10 and 11, 2019, at the Roosevelt Hotel in New Orleans. This workshop brought together two-dozen journalists to explore the challenges, ethics, and opportunities in editing outstanding science stories […]

  • The Best Science Stories Are Improbable (At First Glance)

    Video Conference

    Marc Abrahams writes about research that makes people laugh, then think. Abrahams founded the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony in 1991, and serves as Master of Ceremonies. He co-founded and edits the magazine Annals of Improbable Research (AIR), and wrote This is Improbable, The Ig Nobel Prizes, and other books. He edits and writes much of […]

  • The IgNobel Prize Ceremony

    Sanders Theatre, Harvard University 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Special Event: The IgNobel Prize Ceremony (6 pm to 8 pm, Sanders Theatre, Harvard) - Fellows Only