By Nick Young
We would never ask a musician to take a multiple-choice test to join our band.
Yet, this is how many physics and astronomy graduate programs select students. As a result, we limit the talent that enters our field.
Editor’s note: This is the 1st in a series of posts by environmental reporting students on things they learned at the recent Society of Environmental Journalists conference.
By Anne Hooper
Anne Hooper
If you’re anything like me, hearing the word “conference” stirs up anxiety. The thought of being surrounded by experts as they converse in industry jargon is intimidating—especially when you’re there to get a scoop.
With a few tips and tricks, however, you can take intimidation out of the equation.
By Eric Freedman
The COVID-19 pandemic is all around us, saturating news reports, dominating conversations, shuttering businesses, isolating hundreds of millions, disrupting schools, derailing sports and the arts, befuddling science.
Meanwhile, pummeling us are natural disasters as diverse as wildfires in Australia and the American West, hurricanes and tropical storms in the Caribbean and Southeast U.S., typhoons in Japan and the Koreas, landslides in Nepal and India.
By Cassidy Hough
This summer I landed an awesome internship despite not being totally qualified. I was the environmental news intern for Interlochen Public Radio, the National Public Radio member network for Northern Michigan.
My first piece of advice is to apply apply apply. Don’t put all your eggs in one basket for that perfect internship that you’re 100% qualified for, because odds are there’s 100 other qualified people applying for that same internship.