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Rita Allen Foundation and WGBH Boston Select First Science Communication Fellow
Adnaan Wasey to develop media formats to engage new audiences with science…
Peter Reddien: Riveted by Regeneration
Peter Reddien delights in reviving what he calls “one of the grand problems of biology.” He applies modern molecular tools to study regeneration in planarian flatworms—a phenomenon first documented by scientists as early as 1766. These freshwater creatures, which are a few millimeters long, can replace a…
Johanna Joyce: Fighting Tumors Through Cellular “Reeducation”
Johanna Joyce’s first task as a research scientist was to clone a chicken gene. This was in the 1990s, when she was an undergraduate at Trinity College Dublin. At the time, she says, “cloning a gene was a big deal—it seems trivial now.” Johanna Joyce(Photo:…
Imagining the Possibilities of Data Science
DataKind’s Jake Porway on defining problems, employing social design, and taking data science in new directions…
Joining Forces to Boost Public-Interest Journalism
Six collaborative reporting projects will examine topics ranging from guns to youth health to climate change and wind turbines.
Luciano Marraffini Awarded Albany Medical Center Prize
Luciano Marraffini (2012 RAF Scholar) will share the Albany Medical Center Prize for development of the CRISPR-Cas9 genome-editing system.
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Landscaping Overview of the North American Science Communication Training Community
Prototype Fund Open Call for Ideas to Improve the Flow of Accurate Information
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Democracy Fund and the Rita Allen Foundation sponsored an open call for ideas to address concerns about the spread of misinformation and produce ways to build trust in journalism. The funders collaborated to choose 20 winning projects and provide a total of $1…