Fri 24 Oct 2008
At 5:30 pm Friday, I along with a few of my peers walked across the street from our hotel to the NASW conference. Overcome with anticipation, we discuss our assignment for the evening. We are supposed to go up and introduce ourselves to complete strangers. When we arrive, we check in and most of us [...]Sat 25 Oct 2008
As any aspiring writer knows, getting published is the hardest part of the job. Sure, you may write well and have some really great ideas, but in no way does that guarantee that your stories will get published. So what exactly can talented, creative science writers do to up their chances of gracing the glossy [...]Thu 6 Nov 2008
Adam Rogers has been a science journalist for nearly 15 years. That’s a long time. And with that much experience, he’s bound to have accumulated some knowledge that eager journalism students could benefit from. People like me. Rogers has quite the resume, including staff writer for Newsweek, staff writer for the Washington Bureau of Newsweek, [...]Sat 13 Dec 2008
Maegen Ionoff is a senior at Indiana University studying biochemistry and comparative literature. She has written for the Indiana Daily Student for a year and will be working at the Herald Times as a copy editor in spring 2008. Science Writing for undergraduates with Holly Stocking was her first journalism course and she has certainly [...]Tue 16 Dec 2008
College freshmen view recreational use of stimulants and analgesics as only slightly risky compared to the use of other drugs, according to a recent study published in Prevention Science. The study also found that students classified as sensation-seekers are more likely to engage in this kind of drug abuse. Jon Agley, of the Indiana [...]Tue 16 Dec 2008
Thu 18 Dec 2008
Natalie Angier has made it her personal mission to educate the general public on scientific issues. It’s an unfortunate truth that science is one of those things that the majority of people just don’t know a lot about…and they don’t even try to learn. The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science, [...]