"The number of good science writers has grown dramatically, thanks to programs such as the Knight Fellowship at MIT and the science writing program at the University of California, Santa Cruz."
—Nieman Reports, Fall 2002

The following links and pdf downloads offer various perspectives on the Science Communication Program—and the field of science writing in general—from our lecturers, former students, and independent journalists.

"A Laboratory for the Media" by Marcos Pivetta, Pequisa FAPESP (Brazilian science magazine, in Portuguese), November 2010

"30 Grads in 30 Days: Lizzie Buchen," interview on UCSC's news site, June 2009

"Found in Translation" by Camille Mojica Rey '97, Science Careers website, January 23, 2009

"Physicists as Journalists" (pdf file) by director Robert Irion, Interactions (American Association of Physics Teachers), September/October 2007

Special report on careers in science journalism (pdf file) by Virginia Gewin, Nature, November 18, 2004

"Training Scientists to be Journalists" (pdf file) by program founder John Wilkes, EMBO Reports, Fall 2002

"From the Lab to the Newsroom" by Tim Stephens '90, UC Santa Cruz Review, summer 1999

Download a color poster (pdf file) about the Science Communication Program