After graduating from Carleton College with a B.A. in biology, Helen Fields (“A Battered Mollusk”) wandered the world for a few years, then studied the behavior of harvester ants for her master’s thesis at Stanford University. She has interned at National Public Radio, U.S. News & World Report, the Monterey County Herald, Science magazine’s ScienceNOW, and the Stanford University Medical Center. Much as she loves being an intern, she dreams of finding a real job someday.

Jyllian Kemsley (“Staring at the Sun”) earned her B.A. and Ph.D. in chemistry from Amherst College and Stanford University, respectively. After interning at the Santa Cruz Sentinel and Chemical & Engineering News,she is now a freelance writer concentrating on the physical sciences.

Greta Lorge (“The Creativity Conundrum”) has a B.A. in human biology from Stanford University and a M.S. in neuroscience from the University of Michigan. She has written for Stanford Report, Stanford Medicine, the Salinas Californian, and California Wild. She spent her summer working at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution as a 2003 Kaiser Family Foundation health reporting intern.

Elisabeth Nadin (“Global Fever”) can tell you all about the power of extreme heat, having survived a summer writing internship at Earthscope in Tucson, Arizona. She studied geology as a college student at the University of Rhode Island, and earned a master’s degree in the subject from the California Institute of Technology. Nadin can be reached at enadin@nasw.org.

Kate Ramsayer (“Along Came A Spider”) graduated from Williams College with a degree in biology. After two years of honing her pipetting skills at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, she opted for a career in science writing. She is spending the fall of 2003 as an intern at Science News. Although she enjoys Washington, D.C., she would jump at the chance to investigate Hawaii’s flora and fauna — even if it involves bugs.

Emily Singer’s (“Mind Over Stomach”) fascination with pioneering women scientists dates back to a high school paper she wrote on Madame Curie. She studied biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and completed an M.S. in neuroscience at the University of California, San Diego. For her summer internship, she worked at New Scientist in London.

Nicole Stricker (“Fish Tales”) has a B.A. in biochemistry from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from Johns Hopkins University. Although she is living the rootless life of an aspiring newspaper reporter, she can always be reached at nstricker@nasw.org.

Ernie Tretkoff (“The Light of Dr. Jean Brodie”) majored in physics at Princeton University. She spent her summer internship writing for the media relations office at the California Institute of Technology.

Shawna Williams (“Recipe for Life”) has been pondering the mysteries of the universe as a writer intern in Geneva, Switzerland, at CERN, Europe’s most important center for particle physics research. She is essentially a nomadic science writer with family roots in Colorado. Williams majored in biochemistry at Colorado College.