Chicago Science Writers

Members of the media are welcome to join a SciLine Media Briefing: COVID-19: Vaccines and Therapeutics, today, June 9 at 1:00 PM CDT. Speakers include Dr. Amy Jenkins, DARPA, and Dr. John Mascola, Vaccine Research Center, NIH. Moderated by SciLine Director Rick Weiss. Register here:

COVID-19: Vaccines and Therapeutics — SciLine Scientists around the world are racing to develop novel approaches to treat and prevent COVID-19. SciLine's next media briefing will cover the status of SARS-CoV-2 vaccine development and clinical trials as well as research on uses of antibodies and convalescent plasma for treatment and protection.

Work with the ASCB | ASCB Kavli Civic Science Fellow Are you passionate about civic science, including science outreach, communication, and public engagement? We, a collaboration of scientific societies, are looking for someone to lead an initiative that will increase the support and incentives for scientists who incorporate...

Deadline is soon: 1/31

McElheny Award: Submission Guidelines - KSJ@MIT Submissions for the 2019 Victor K. McElheny Award for local and regional science journalism will be accepted from December 1, 2018 to January 31, 2019.

2019 Annual Science Immersion Workshop for Journalists Global Change Impacts and WaterAccording to the United Nations, water is the “primary medium through which we will feel the effects of climate change” and water scarcity alone affects nearly half the global population.

What Makes Us Human? Lessons from the Study of Wild Chimpanzees Chimpanzees and their sister species, the bonobo, are humankind’s closest living relatives. Because of this close evolutionary relationship, chimpanzees provide a model system to evaluate claims about human uniqueness. John Mitani’s 23-year study of an unusually large community of chimpanzees at...