Media Fellow Kicks Off (20 June 2000) -- IEEE-USA's first Mass Media Science & Engineering Fellow, Elan Ruskin, started his term on 12 June at the St. Louis (MO) Post Dispatch. Ruskin, a junior at the University of Pennsylvania majoring in computer science engineering, will spend the summer working at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch,as part of a nationwide program to strengthen the connections between science and the media. Ruskin is among a group of 25 students selected as a Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The program is only open to students pursuing degrees in the natural and social sciences and engineering. AAAS created the program to achieve three objectives: enable students to observe and participate in the process of ideas and events becoming news; improve students' communications skills by teaching them to describe complex technical subjects to non-specialists; and increase students' understanding of editorial decision-making and how information is disseminated effectively. Pender M. McCarter, director of communications at IEEE?USA, which is underwriting the Fellowship, said, "We're pleased and gratified that an engineering student has been selected. From Elan's application, he appears to be the thoughtful, talented student the program appeals to and we wish him a wonderful summer." For more information about the Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program, contact McCarter at p.mccarter@ieee.org or visit: http://ehrweb.aaas.org/ehr/MassMedia. [ Home ] |
