Sponsors
The program is made possible thanks in large part to the generous sponsors who help fund the fellowships each year. Their support is an invaluable asset for the program. However, the fellows are not the only ones who benefit from this relationship. The sponsoring organizations gain from having critical mass media communications skills resident among people from their disciplinary areas. Many current and former sponsors have cultivated long-term relationships with their fellows.
The affiliates, foundations, other private organizations and Universities that support our Mass Media Science & Engineering Fellows are:
- AAAS
- American Chemical Society
- American Geophysical Union
- American Mathematical Society
- American Physical Society
- American Physiological Society
- American Society of Plant Biologists
- American Statistical Association
- Association of American Medical Colleges (2 fellows)
- Burroughs Wellcome Fund (2 fellows)
- Heising-Simons Foundation (7 fellows)
- Ralph W.F. Hardy Mass Media Fellowship
- University of Wisconsin
If you are interested in sponsoring a fellow or would like more information about sponsorship, please email.
Host Sites
Each year different media sites agree to host a AAAS Mass Media Fellow. Some of the sites have been with the program for many years and say they enjoy the experience as much as the fellows. The on-site mentor and the staff the fellows work with each day are an integral part of the program as they guide the fellow through the ins and outs of journalism and communicating with the public. Once a fellow is selected for the program they are assigned to a media site. The 2023 host sites were:
- Discover
- El Nuevo Día
- Idaho Statesman
- Inside Climate News
- Los Angeles Times
- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
- National Public Radio (NPR)
- Science Friday
- Science News
- Scientific American
- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- Smithsonian Magazine
- STAT
- StateImpact Pennsylvania
- The Conversation U.S.
- The Dallas Morning News
- The Philadelphia Inquirer
- The Raleigh News & Observer
- The Washington Post
- WIRED
- WUNC