How to Apply

Application Requirements:

For a printable list of application requirements, please click here.

A) Application form. Click here to fill out the form online, or you can fill out and mail in a paper form by downloading the PDF here.

B) Professional autobiography: Tell us about your professional life. Not to exceed 750 words.

C) Fellowship year proposal: Tell us what you plan to do during a fellowship year and how that would fit in with your professional goals. Not to exceed 750 words.

D) Professional approach: Please explain your approach to journalism. What is your method of finding stories? How you analyze and report findings? Or for editors, how do you scrutinize the stories you receive? Not to exceed 500 words.

E) Resumé or Curriculum Vitae: Be sure to include your education and work history.

F) Four Letters of Recommendation: Please ask four people familiar with your work to comment on your abilities and your commitment to science journalism. Letters should be sent to our postal address (see below). Letters of recommendation must reach us by March 2, 2009.

G) Employer's Letter: Please have your supervisor write a letter supporting your application and granting a nine-month leave of absence if you are awarded a Fellowship. Freelancers, skip this and see item H. Letters should be sent to our postal address (see below). Employer's letters must reach us by March 2, 2009.

H) Only for Freelancers: Provide a list of all your jobs in the last 12 months—what you did, for whom and, if your client is not widely known, provide some idea of who or what it is. A few words for each job is sufficient.

I) Samples of professional work: Six samples of your work. Please note that we require a total of 5 copies of all of your samples.

General Guidelines for Samples:
	Select six works that best show your interests and abilities. All six samples should have been published or broadcast within the last 24 months. Do not submit any item that is irreplaceable. Materials will not be returned. If original work is not in English, English translations are required. You must provide 5 copies of each work sample.
Written Work:
	Printouts from archives, clippings or Web sites copied onto letter-sized paper. Please try to avoid reducing type size. Instead of whole books, submit one chapter. With newspaper series, send only the first and last articles, with a brief outline of other items in the series. Editors should indicate their involvement (assigning, copy-editing, picture selection, layout, etc.)
TV/Radio:
	Submit on DVD, CD, or NTSC-formatted VHS video cassette (5 copies) with a total running time of up to 30 minutes and a typed manuscript or synopsis (5 copies) indicating where each item (program, story or segment) begins on the tape/disc. Directors or producers should indicate their involvement (assigning, editing, directing, producing).
Web work:
	Submit work samples as printouts on paper, and, if possible, provide the URLs.
Photography and Graphics:
	Submit photos or artworks either as published clippings, or, if you prefer, make new copies for us.