The Sumatra-based reporter, currently a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, often finds herself navigating the terrain where science and politics clash.
KSJ Opens 2023-24 Fellowship Application Cycle
The program is accepting new applications for its in-person fellowship, with 10 slots available.
Astronomy Writer Lisa Grossman Makes Space for the Personal
After 15 years of writing about the cosmos, the Knight Science Journalism Fellow begins work on a memoir about loss, motherhood, and the biology that underscores both.
2022-23 Sharon Begley Science Reporting Fellows Announced
Ambar Castillo and Brittany Trang will spend the year reporting for STAT and will join five academic fellows at MIT’s Knight Science Journalism Program.
Seeing the Forest for the Trees
More than 1,000 feet above the Amazon rainforest, writer Ferris Jabr finds a new perspective on the relationship between Earth and life
Reading Tracy Kidder in West Texas 
While reporting for a book about earthquakes, KSJ Project Fellow Anna Kuchment found inspiration in a nonfiction classic.