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APS Sponsors USC Doctoral Student for Media Fellowship |
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| University of
Southern California doctoral student Katherine Leitzell has accepted the
2007 AAAS Mass Media Fellowship sponsored by APS. She will complete her
10-week assignment at US News & World Report, which has its editorial
offices in Washington, DC. The Communications Committee recommended Leitzell,
a former Fulbright scholar, for the fellowship. The fellowship is designed to encourage communication of science to the general public. The AAAS places several fellows each year with various media outlets. Each fellow is sponsored by a different professional society. The APS has sponsored a doctoral or postdoctoral physiologist through the AAAS program for nine years. Leitzell majored in German studies and minored in Biology at Whitman College in Walla Walla WA. After graduating in 2002, she received her master’s degree in biological sciences from USC where she expects to get her PhD in 2009. During her Fulbright fellowship year, Leitzell attended the University of Rostock (in the former East Germany) where she studied neurobiology and worked in a neuroscience laboratory. She has also worked as a marketing intern, the public programs coordinator for The Imaginarium in Anchorage, Alaska and has been a science writer for the USC magazine, USC Today. Leitzell’s dissertation research focuses on the regulation of neurotransmitter transporters and explores the intracellular signals that regulate trafficking of the GABA transporter to and from the plasma membrane in neurons. Past fellows This is the ninth year that APS has sponsored a mass media fellow. AAAS has continued to keep in touch with these fellows and has found that about half remain in science, while half pursue a career in science writing. So far, three APS fellows have gone on to science journalism and five are in science. Of the three in journalism, one is a medical reporter for a major newspaper, one hosts a science weekly radio program and one is the life sciences editor for a technology magazine. |
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