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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 have launched new careers for 28 years. What have our grads done with our training?
Check this list of the careers of 200+ alumni to find out. 
a few recent stories by our graduates
"Bigfoot Hobbit Could Be Ancient Island Human" by Ewen Callaway '07 (New Scientist, May 6, 2009)
"On Cusp of Big Transition, NASA Lacks Permanent Leader" by Kenneth Chang '95 (New York Times, May 3, '09)
"Teaching Autistic Kids to Read Facial Expressions" by Amber Dance '08 (Los Angeles Times, Apr. 13, 2009)
"In the Key of Bee" by Erik Vance '06 (Bay Nature, Apr-June 2009)
"The Rock that Fell to Earth" by Roberta Kwok '08 (Nature, Mar. 25, 2009)
"Ante Up, Human: The Adventures of Polaris, the Poker-Playing Robot" by Julie Rehmeyer '06 (WIRED, Dec. 2008)
"Did Our Cosmos Exist Before the Big Bang?" by Anil Ananthaswamy '00 (New Scientist, Dec. 10, 2008)
"The Farthest Horizons" by director Robert Irion (National Geographic special issue on space, Nov. 2008)
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: newspaper and magazine journalism, broadcasting, and staff writing at federal agencies,
national labs, universities, aquaria, and zoos.
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 internships, and it's the only graduate science writing program in the nation
that requires experience in science 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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ScienceNotes
Science Notes is an annual magazine of in-depth features
and illustrations by our students. Explore SciCom's latest multimedia issue, published Aug. 15, 2008.
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spotlight on. . .
Lizzie Buchen '09, who completed the SciCom program in June, described her experiences in the campus's "30 Grads in 30 Days" online column. She will work as an intern at Nature in Washington, D.C., for six months.
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AAAS '08 interviews
SciCom students published these ten conversations with researchers, based on their interviews at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. |
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application deadline
April 1, 2009
Admissions for fall 2009 is closed. Our window for fall 2010 opens in October '09. |
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