Mid-career journalists covering science, technology, the environment or medicine can apply for a nine-month fellowship.

The Knight Science Journalism Fellowships hosts international and US journalists for a year of personalized study, auditing courses at MIT and Harvard, attending lectures and interviewing faculty members.

Fellows receive a US$65,000 stipend plus tuition. Additional benefits include health insurance, research trip stipends, conference stipends and access to MIT and Harvard resources.

Applicants must have English proficiency and at least three years experience as reporters, writers, editors, producers, illustrators or photojournalists. They may work for newspapers, magazines, television, radio or the web.

Submit a professional autobiography, resume, project proposal, work samples and four recommendation letters by March 1.

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