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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 alumni.
We launch new careers in science writing. How have we done so far, in 27 years?
Check this list of our graduates' careers to find out. 
recent writings
of UC Santa Cruz graduates
"Canadian Crude May Fuel S.D. Boom" (parts 1, 2, 3) by Ben Shouse '01 (Sioux Falls Argus-Leader, Dec. 2-4, 2007)
"To Sleep, Perchance to Dream" by Jessica Marshall '05 (Zoogoer, Nov./Dec. 2007)
"Bad Vibrations" by Mason Inman '04 (Science News, Nov. 24, 2007)
"Shadow World" by Davide Castelvecchi '04 (Science News, Nov. 17, 2007)
"4 Robots That Are Saving the World" by Brittany Grayson '07 (Discover.com, Sept. 7, 2007)
more…
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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 and with the world's leading scientists, often by visiting them in their labs or in the field. Science writers choose from many career options: newspapers, magazines, broadcasting, public
information, and educational writing for federal agencies,
national labs, universities, aquaria, and zoos.
The science writing program at the University of
California, Santa Cruz, has produced professionally trained science
writers since 1981. The program is one academic year long, plus a summer
internship. It's the only graduate science writing program in the nation
that requires significant previous science training.
Program graduates work at National Public Radio and the San Francisco Exploratorium, at science magazines in New York City and Washington, D.C., at the National Institutes of Health and Caltech, and at newspapers from Los Angeles to Philadelphia to 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 feature stories
and illustrations by students in the UC Santa Cruz Science Communication
program.
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notable writing
"Numbers Can Lie" by Andreas von Bubnoff '05, from the
Sept. 17, 2007 Los Angeles Times, will appear in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2008.
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national awards
Betsy Mason '01 received the American
Geophysical Union's 2007 David Perlman Award for
excellence in news reporting for articles in the Contra Costa Times.
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application deadline
April 1
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