Distinguished visiting lecturers teach detailed seminars; some meet privately with students for editorial sessions. Our annual guests include:

• Molly Bentley, San Francisco-based correspondent for BBC Radio and executive producer of "Are We Alone?" from the SETI Institute
• Ingfei Chen, Santa Cruz-based freelance and regular contributor to the New York Times, Discover, CR Magazine, VIA, and Caring.com
• Jennifer Kahn, San Francisco-based freelance and award-winning contributing editor for WIRED; also writes for The New Yorker, National Geographic, and Outside
• Greg Miller, San Francisco-based neuroscience correspondent and West Coast news reporter for Science
• Leigh Poitinger, research director for the San Jose Mercury News
• Paul Rogers, environment reporter for the San Jose Mercury News and managing editor of QUEST, a science documentary and multimedia series produced by KQED public television, San Francisco
• Gordy Slack, Oakland-based freelance writer for Salon.com, Los Angeles Times, WIRED, and San Francisco Magazine; author of The Battle Over the Meaning of Everything, on the intelligent design trial in Dover, PA
• Ted Weinstein, San Francisco-based literary agent and author representative for many national narrative nonfiction books
• and many other guests presenting special sessions on media law, writers' contracts, children's writing, and book writing

Visitors are chosen for their desire to help new science writers and for their national prominence. Many students maintain contact with them after graduating from the program.