Laurel Hamers is a recent graduate of the UC Santa Cruz Science Communication Program and is currently an intern at Science News in Washington, D.C. She holds a bachelor's degree in biology from Williams College but spent a year writing about physics for the American Institute of Physics before her stint at UCSC. Laurel is the recipient of a Taylor/Blakeslee graduate fellowship from the CASW. She also credits the NASW undergraduate travel fellowship program to AAAS for first convincing her that science writing was a viable career path. (So far, it's worked out great!)