DEADLINE: Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications

This application cycle marks the second year of the National Academies Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications. The awards will encourage high-quality science communication and build a diverse community of science communicators, journalists, and research scientists that will help society meet the challenges and realize opportunities posed by complex issues such as climate change, future pandemics, human genome editing, artificial intelligence.

The program will confer 24 awards totaling $640,000.

The awards will be given to individuals who have developed creative, original work published or released in 2022 that explores issues and advances in science, engineering, and/or medicine for the general public in the following categories:

• 9 Awards for Research Scientists will be split into three subcategories in science, engineering, or medical fields: graduate students (who were master’s or Ph.D. candidates), early career researchers (who were zero-five years post-master’s or Ph.D.), and mid-to-later career researchers (who were six or more years post-master’s or Ph.D.).
• 9 Awards for Science Journalists will focus on three subcategories in science journalism: community journalists (who reported on local and/or community-specific issues, or the effects of wider issues on a locality or community), early career journalists (who were under 30 years of age, or had less than five years of professional experience), and freelance journalists (who were self-employed).
• 6 Awards for Science Communicators will focus on two other subcategories in science communication: independent communicators (who were self-employed) and organizational communicators (who were employed by an organization).

Schmidt Futures will additionally partner with journalists and renowned journalistic institutions to create ongoing training and professional development opportunities for the talented communicators recognized through the awards program.

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Deadline is Mar 31, 2024.