Hands-On Laboratory for Science Writers

科学写作奖学金计划为年轻的和职业生涯中期的科学记者(报纸、杂志、广播、电视和自由撰稿人)提供动手实验室培训。它以为期一周的强化实验室课程开始，重点是细胞和分子生物学，并持续长达八周，在此期间，研究员参与正在进行的实验室项目或在马萨诸塞州伍兹霍尔的海洋生物实验室(MBL)提供的博士后水平课程。研究员还有机会在当地或在阿拉斯加的图利克湖研究站参加环境和生态研究。研究员是根据表现出的写作或广播技能以及他们所面向的公众的规模和重要性来挑选的。他们参与该计划使他们更好地了解当代生物、技术和环境科学的复杂主题，并更好地了解科学家是谁，他们的动机是什么，以及他们是如何工作的。研究员们彼此之间以及科学家个人之间形成了持久的、信息丰富的关系。他们向公众宣传科学和技术在当代生活中的地位及其与关键的社会和政治决策的关系，即提高他们的科学素养的能力也大大提高。

The Science Writing Fellowships Program provides hands-on laboratory training for young and mid-career science journalists (newspaper, magazine, radio, television and free- lance). It begins with an intensive one-week laboratory course that focuses on cell and molecular biology and continues for up to eight weeks, during which time fellows participate in on-going laboratory projects or in postdoctoral-level courses offered at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Fellows also have the opportunity to participate in environmental and ecological research studies either locally or at the Toolik Lake Research Station in Alaska. Fellows are selected on the basis of demonstrated writing or broadcasting skills and the size and importance of the public they address. Their participation in the program provides them with a better understanding of the complex subject matter of contemporary biological, technological, and environmental science, and with a better insight into who scientists are, what their motivations are, and how they work. Fellows form long- lasting and informative relationships with each other as well as individual scientists. Their ability to inform the public of the place of science and technology in contemporary life and its relation to critical social and political decisions, i.e., to enhance the science literacy of their, is also significantly improved.