Here’s what alumni are writing: a compendium from Federico Kukso (2015-16). Debbie Ponchner (2003-04): “Rescuing Ancient Art from Microbes,” Scientific American. Lauren Whaley (2016-17): “The hidden social factors driving disparities in childhood cancer survival rates,” Center for Health Journalism. Marcin Rotkiewicz (2008-09). “Judgment for gene editing,” Polityka (in Polish). Federico Kukso (2015-16): “Carlo Rovelli: ‘Ignoring […]
Alumni Notes: August 14, 2018
A collaboration about a collaboration: Pagan Kennedy, left, and Karen Brown. “The Great God of Depression,” the gripping story of the improbable collaboration between a brain scientist and an acclaimed author to come to terms with their shared mental illness, is a five-part podcast that can be found at Radiotopia’s Showcase page (or wherever you […]
Alumni Notes: June 22, 2018
In 1587, a band of settlers — 115 men, women, and children — founded the first English colony in the New World, on Roanoke Island in what is now North Carolina. Three years later, their governor returned from a resupply mission to England only to find that they’d vanished with barely a trace. What happened […]
2017-18 Ends on a High Note
The Class of 2017-18. Front row: Director Deborah Blum, Teresa Carr, Jane Qiu, Sujata Gupta, Caty Enders. Back row: Mićo Tatalović, Rowan Jacobsen, Ehsan Masood, Kolawole Talabi, Program Administrator Bettina Urcuioli, Joshua Hatch. The 2017-18 KSJ fellows saved their best for last. Their farewell month in Cambridge ended on May 25 with a graduation […]
Ashley Smart Is Named as KSJ’s Associate Director
The Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT is delighted to announce that Ashley Smart, senior editor at Physics Today and former KSJ fellow, will be joining the team in August as associate director. As associate director, Smart will play a central role in helping to manage KSJ — an elite mid-career fellowship program that brings […]
Back to Woods Hole for Mićo Tatalović
The 2017-18 Knight Science Journalism fellow, an editor at New Scientist in the U.K., wins a Logan fellowship to study at the Marine Biological Laboratory — a place of “amazing research.”