The Knight Science Journalism program at MIT, an internationally renowned mid-career fellowship program, is proud to announce that ten elite science journalists from four countries will make up its Class of 2018-19. Each year the KSJ program, which celebrates its 35th anniversary this year, brings journalists to Cambridge for a ten-month fellowship that allows […]
Alumni Notes: May 31, 2018
May 31, 2018 Combining passions for climbing and research: Luke Timmerman at the top of the world. At 6:25 a.m. on May 22, an exultant Luke Timmerman (2005-06) reached the summit of Mount Everest. After writing about advances in cancer research for 15 years, and climbing mountains almost that long, he decided to combine the […]
Alumni Notes: April 23, 2018
April 23, 2018 Ibiba DonPedro (2001-02), an award-winning journalist and activist in Nigeria, has just published four books on the country’s Niger Delta region. The books, she writes, “capture the different facets of the region’s tragic narrative, especially the discord and disruptive impact of the production of crude oil on the lives of the people […]
This Year’s Fellows: Caty Enders
“I like demystifying things for readers and I like tackling difficult subjects.” Photo: Joshua Hatch. This is the tenth in a series of profiles of the 2017-18 Knight Science Journalism fellows, written by students in MIT’s Graduate Program in Science Writing. It can be upsetting to be told you have a government microchip in […]
This Year’s Fellows: Mićo Tatalović
“So many things are happening here … so many things that will change the world. To actually be here and to see it for yourself is amazing.”
Nuclear Power Can Be Saved, an Innovator Tells the Fellows
Michael Short, head of an MIT lab that bears his name, visits the Knight Science Journalism program to talk about the problems besetting an industry that generates most of the U.S.’s clean power. They’re manageable, he says, if you break them into five-year chunks.