AMS-AAAS Mass Media Fellowship

2009 Summer Opportunity for Graduate Students in Mathematics

In affiliation with the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the AMS sponsors ten-week fellowships for graduate students in mathematics to work full-time over the summer as reporters, researchers and production assistants in U.S. mass media organizations -- radio and TV stations, newspapers and magazines.

GOAL
The program is intended to strengthen the connections between science and the media, to improve public understanding of science, and to sharpen the ability of the fellows to communicate complex scientific issues to non-specialists.

ELIGIBILITY
Graduate students in mathematics at U.S. institutions with outstanding written and oral communication skills and a strong interest in learning how the media works. Applicants should be available for a telephone interview in March and be able to accept assignments anywhere in the U.S.

STIPEND
Fellows are provided a weekly stipend for ten weeks, as well as travel expenses to and from AAAS in Washington, DC and their sites.

TERM
Fellows will attend an orientation at AAAS headquarters in Washington, DC at the beginning of summer before taking up their full-time work at their assigned site, returning to AAAS in Washington, DC for a wrap-up session at the end of summer.

TO APPLY
Brochure/application form is available on the AAAS website.
 

DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF APPLICATIONS BY AAAS:  January 15, 2009

Previous AMS fellows:

2007:  Adriana Salerno, University of Texas at Austin.  Assigned to Voice of America.  See article "My Summer at the Voice of America."  Notices of the AMS, February 2008.
2006:  Brie Finegold, University of California at Santa Barbara.  Assigned to Scientific American.  See article "My Summer at Scientific American."  Notices of the AMS, January 2007.
2005:  Brent Deschamp, University of Wyoming.  Assigned to WOSU-AM in Columbus, Ohio.  See article "My Summer at National Public Radio."  Notices of the AMS, January 2006.
2004:  Lisa DeKeukelaere, Brown University.  Assigned to the Scientific American.  See article "My Summer at Scientific American," Notices of the AMS, January 2005.
2003: Claudia Clark, Northeastern University. Assigned to the Voice of America.  See article "A Summer at Voice of America," Notices of the AMS, April 2004.
2002: Kathy Paur, Harvard University. Assigned to the Chicago Tribune.
2001: Rafe Jones, Brown University. Assigned to Discovery Channel Online.  See article "A Summer at Discovery.com," Notices of the AMS, June/July 2002.
2000: Kathryn Leonard, Brown University. Assigned to Popular Science. See article "A Summer at Popular Science Magazine," Notices of the AMS, September 2001.
Mary Ann Saadi, University of Rhode Island. Assigned to Business Week.
1999: Brian Allen, Purdue University. Assigned to TIME Magazine's Washington DC bureau. See article, "A Summer at Time Magazine," Notices of the AMS, October 2000.
1998: Edouard Servan-Schreiber, University of California, Berkeley, spent the summer at National Geographic Television, Washington DC.
1997: Benjamin Stein, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, spent the summer at National Geographic Television, Washington DC.
Elizabeth Veomett, Oregon State University, spent her fellowship at Business Week, New York. See article "Experiences of AMS-AAAS Media Fellows," Liz Veomett and Ben Stein, Notices of the AMS, January 1998 .

AMS contact for more information: Anita Benjamin, AMS Washington Office, amsdc@ams.org