• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
Penn BGS Career Development

BGS Career Development

Making It Count!

  • Core Competencies
  • Career Paths
  • Career Blog
  • Career Paths Mentorship Program
  • Alumni Outcomes

Call for Proposals: Early-Career Fellowship Program

September 26, 2018 by Rebecca Lopez

The Open Notebook/Burroughs Wellcome Fund fellowship for early-career science writers is now accepting applications for their next two fellowship periods. The first will begin on January 2, 2019 and end on August 31, 2019. The subsequent fellowship period will begin on July 1, 2019 and end on February 28, 2020.

During this remote and part-time fellowship, fellows will report and write six articles for publication at The Open Notebook and will receive a stipend of $4,200.

Eligibility

“The fellowship is open to early-career science writers with fewer than two years of professional science writing experience. (Internships and student work do not count toward this requirement). Graduate students interested in science writing are eligible. Prospective fellows must be available to devote sufficient time to completing articles as specified in the fellowship description. (International applicants are welcome. Note that applications, including writing samples and letters of recommendation, must be in English.)” (Via The Open Notebook)

Apply by 11:59 p.m. U.S. Central time on October 11, 2018.

Click here to apply.

Filed Under: Announcements Tagged With: Career: Science writing, Competency: Communication

Primary Sidebar

Upcoming Events

Calendar

Professional Skills Series 2021-2022

Categories

  • Announcements
  • Articles
  • Conferences
  • Courses
  • Jobs
  • Online Resources
  • Panels
  • Seminars
  • Student Group Event
  • Symposia
  • Uncategorized
  • Webinars
  • Workshops

Tags

  • Alumni
  • Alumni Speakers
  • Career Services (Penn)
  • Career: Clinical care
  • Career: Consulting
  • Career: Entrepreneurship
  • Career: Financial/market analysis
  • Career: Grants management
  • Career: Medical science liaison
  • Career: Medical Writing
  • Career: Nonacademic pursuits in academia
  • Career: Nonprofit
  • Career: Patent law
  • Career: Policy
  • Career: Public health
  • Career: Publishing
  • Career: Regulatory affairs
  • Career: Research (academic)
  • Career: Research (government)
  • Career: Research (industry)
  • Career: Science writing
  • Career: Teaching (community college)
  • Career: Teaching (K-12)
  • Career: Teaching (primarily undergraduate institution)
  • Career: Teaching (university)
  • Career: Technology transfer
  • Center for Teaching and Learning (Penn)
  • Competency: Communication
  • Competency: Critical Thinking
  • Competency: Experimental Design
  • Competency: Management
  • Competency: Mathematical and Computational Practices
  • Ernest E. Just Biomedical Society
  • GLIA
  • Graduate & Professional Student Assembly (GAPSA)
  • Graduate Group: Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics
  • Graduate Group: Cell & Molecular Biology
  • Graduate Group: Epidemiology and Biostatistics
  • Graduate Group: Genomics and Computational Biology
  • Graduate Group: Immunology
  • Graduate Group: Neuroscience
  • Graduate Group: Pharmacology
  • National Institutes of Health
  • National Science Foundation
  • Networking
  • News Media
  • Penn Bio Launch
  • Penn Biotech Group
  • Penn Graduate Consulting Club
  • Penn Graduate Women in Science and Engineering (PGWISE)
  • Penn SACNAS
  • Penn Science Policy & Diplomacy Group
  • Professional Skills: Diplomacy
  • Professional Skills: Informational Interviews
  • Professional Skills: Negotiation
  • Science: Working Life
  • Scientific Societies: ASBMB
  • Scientific Societies: ASCB
  • Video


Contact Us | Admin | Log in

Copyright © 2025 The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania