Hands-On Laboratory for Science Writers

科学写作奖学金计划为年轻的和处于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）提供动手实验培训。首先是为期一周的强化实验课程，重点是细胞和分子生物学，并持续长达八周，在此期间，研究员参加正在进行的实验室项目或在马萨诸塞州伍兹霍尔海洋生物实验室（MBL）提供的博士后水平的课程。研究员也有机会在当地或阿拉斯加的图里克湖研究站参与环境和生态研究。获奖者的选择依据是他们所展示的写作或广播技巧，以及他们对公众演讲的规模和重要性。他们参与该项目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个别科学家之间建立了持久的、信息丰富的关系。他们向公众宣传科学技术在当代生活中的地位及其与关键社会和政治决策的关系的能力，即提高他们的科学素养，也得到了显著提高。

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.