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| Media Fellow to Work at U.S. News & World Report |
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The Society will once again sponsor a AAAS
Mass Media Fellow, and this year it will be Lindsay Chura. Chura will
do her ten-week fellowship at US News & World Report in Washington, D.C. She is among the two dozen fellows who will work as science journalists during the summer. Fellows spend 10 weeks developing their ability to communicate complex scientific issues to non-scientists and improving public understanding of science. Participating media outlets include newspapers, magazines, online news outlets, and radio and television stations. Chura is a graduate of Holyoke College and spent a year as a Fulbright Fellow in Australia, where she studied the relationship between obesity and infertility. She was also a research fellow for two summers in the stress neurobiology laboratory at the Department of Psychiatry at Emory University School of Medicine. Among the projects she worked on: evaluating the effects of prenatal stress on placental expression of genes coding for barrier proteins and measurement of expression of the proteins. Chura also did a brief internship at the ABC News affiliate in Albany, NY. |
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This year marked the 121st meeting of our
membership and with it our continuing emphasis on reaching the
non-scientific public about the value and benefit of our science. To that
end we developed ten consumer-friendly press releases and four podcasts
highlighting EB presentations that demonstrated how physiology is all around
us and is an accessible science. You can read the releases at
http://www.the-aps.org/press/index.htm and listen to the
podcasts at http://www.lifelines.tv/. Media pick-up to date has included coverage in the print and/or online editions of: Nature, CBS News, Forbes, MSNBC, New Scientist, Philadelphia Inquirer, Reuters Health, Science News, Slate, UPI, US News & World Report, USA Today, Washington Post and WebMD. This is in addition to the 549 mentions of our stories on TV stations in the top 20 TV markets, a record number for the APS. The EB-related podcasts also attracted significant listener interest, and interest continues to climb. |
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