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“The best academic training ground in
the U.S. for science journalists.”
— New
Scientist
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the track record
If you read major science magazines, go to science museums and aquaria, or listen to NPR, you’ve seen and heard the work of our graduates.
We've launched new careers for 29 years. What have our grads done with our training?
Check this list of the careers of 200+ alumni to find out. 
Meet our latest grads: Class of '09
Current students: Class of '10
a few recent stories by our graduates
"The Secrets Within Cosmic Dust" by director Robert Irion '88 (Smithsonian, Dec. 2009)
"Swine Flu Vaccine Fears Debunked" by Emily Sohn '00 (Discovery News, Oct. 23, 2009)
"Mammoth Black Holes Push Universe to Its Doom" by Rachel Courtland '07 (New Scientist, Oct. 5, 2009)
"Weird, Rare Clouds and the Physics Behind Them" by Betsy Mason '01 (Wired.com, Sept. 29, 2009)
"Behind Moon Travel Goal, Big Talk and Little Money" by Kenneth Chang '95 (New York Times, Aug. 24, 2009)
"Proceed with Caution" by Sarah C.P. Williams '07 (HHMI Bulletin, Aug. 2009)
"Learning from UCLA: Details of the Experiment That Led to a Researcher's Death..." by Jyllian Kemsley '03 (Chemical & Engin. News, Aug. 3, 2009)
"Superheroes: Turning Sadness Upside Down" by Erin Digitale '08 (Stanford Medicine, Summer 2009)
MORE ALUMNI CLIPS 
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Do you enjoy explaining your
work, and science in general, to non-scientist friends and relatives more than you like working in the lab?
The women and men who popularize science enjoy a career
that never loses its zing. They stay in close touch with cutting-edge
science, often by visiting the world's leading scientists in their labs or in the field. Science writers choose from many career options: online, magazine, and newspaper journalism; staff writing at university news offices, federal agencies,
national labs, museums, and zoos; and multimedia work on the Internet and in radio.
The science writing program at UC Santa Cruz has produced professional science
writers since 1981. The program is one academic year long, with internships throughout the school year and the following summer. It focuses entirely on practical training through classroom work and diverse internships, and it's the only graduate science writing program in the nation
that requires a degree in science and experience in research.
Our graduates work at National Public Radio and the San Francisco Exploratorium; at science magazines in New York and Washington, D.C.; at the National Institutes of Health and Stanford; and at newspapers in Los Angeles, Detroit, Philadelphia, and Bend, Oregon — to name a few sites. About half of our alumni freelance, mainly to live
where they want and to cover the science that captivates them. [TELL ME MORE….] |
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Science Notes is an annual magazine of in-depth features,
illustrations, and multimedia work by our students. Explore SciCom's latest issue, published in August.
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spotlight on. . .
Lizzie Buchen '09, who completed SciCom in June, talked about her experiences in the campus's "30 Grads in 30 Days" column. She will work as an intern at Nature in Washington, D.C., for six months.
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AAAS '09 interviews
SciCom students published these nine conversations with researchers, based on their interviews at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Chicago.
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application deadline
April 1, 2010
We are now accepting applications for the class entering in fall 2010. Reviews have started; final deadline is April 1, 2010.
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