6/09/04. We've received a record number of applications this year. For the many of you on the waiting list, we are sorry that it looks increasingly unlikely that we will be able to accommodate you. We hope you will apply again for 2005.
5/26/04. An addition to the schedule: The class has been offered an opportunity to visit the Valles Caldera, a spectacular 90,000-acre preserve in the Jemez Mountains. Our host will be William Debuys, author, conservationist, and chairman of the Valles Caldera Trust. We'll do this on Tuesday afternoon before the dinner at Rancho de Chimayo. (As an alternative, students can visit instead Bandelier National Monument, which is in the same general area.)
5/13/04. We'll have hats available at the workshop for $18 each (our cost plus $3).
5/10/04. George Gumerman, an archeologist known most recently for his Artificial Anasazi project (a computer simulation of the rise and fall of a pueblo civilization), will be the other speaker at the Sunday morning press conference. An article about him appeared in the Santa Fe Institute Bulletin.
4/29/04. The class list has been updated to include instructor assignments. Thank you to everyone who went to the trouble of filling out the new form.
4/29/04. Jennifer Dunne, a computational ecologist and visiting researcher at the Santa Fe Institute, will join us Sunday morning as our first press conference speaker.
4/28/04. We're not getting as many cancellations as expected. If you are on the waiting list, please be patient for another week or so.
4/26/04. Please remember that the payment deadline is May 1. Also if you haven't filled in our new application form (this was explained in an email sent to everyone on April 17), we'd appreciate it if you would go to http://sciwrite.org/sciwrite/sciwrite.appform.html. (No need to resubmit the essay.) This will help us convert to our new database system.
4/09/04. Although the workshop is full, we are expecting cancellations by April 15 from as many as five people who have not responded to our email inquiries. We are still accepting applications for the waiting list.
4/01/04. Please let us know if you paid by credit card through Ghost Ranch Santa Fe so we can keep our records straight.
3/27/04. If you were among those accepted between late February and March 1, please remember that we need to receive payment, or at least a deposit, by April 1. (No need to worry if you have already written us to say that payment will be late. We realize how slow the wheels of bureaucracy can turn.)
3/25/04. Applications are still being accepted, and the next batch will be processed around April 1. By mid-April, after the first payment deadline, we will probably have a few cancellations.
3/17/04. We sent out acceptances today and placed a few people on the waiting list. We almost always get cancellations, and will continue to accept applications. If you have not heard back from us, please write so we can make sure there have not been any mixups. Here is an updated class list. We've also posted a preliminary schedule, with some blanks still to be filled in.
3/15/04. We'll be processing the current batch of applications during the next few days.
3/1/04. We have sent out 34 acceptances, leaving six to ten more openings. Applications arriving between now and March 15 will be considered in the next round. Meanwhile we're working on the daily schedule and will post it soon.
2/27/04. We sent out 30 acceptances today and will do the rest on Sunday. So that leaves one more day to get into the first round.
2/23/04. We will be sending out the first acceptances by the end of the week and anticipate having about 10 openings after that. Here is a partial list of the affiliations of some of the first people who have applied:
Reporter, Pasadena Star-News
Science Reporter, The San Diego Union-Tribune
Science Writer, Weizmann Institute
Executive Director, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Senior Editor, Nature America
Science Writer, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Freelance Writer, San Francisco
Editor, Bangkok Post
Senior Web Associate, American Chemical Society
Journalist and public administration consultant, Naples, Italy
Outreach Coordinator, UC Davis, Wildlife Health Center . . .
2/18/04 p.m. Our application server is now up and running (though no thanks to Qwest -- I moved the program to a new site). Sorry again for the delay. Because of the problems, we will accept applications for the first round through the end of February, then process them as they arrive. We look forward to hearing from you. (It is possible that for the next 24 hours email to our domain may bounce while the new DNS information becomes distributed across the Internet. If so, please wait and resend. My personal address, if you need it, is on my website, talaya.net.)
2/18/04. Incredibly, Qwest has still not fixed our DSL outage (going on 48 hours). So, again, please apply by fax or check back later today.
2/17/04. Because of a failure at the Qwest switching office, our DSL line is temporarily down. This is supposed to be fixed today. (Then again it was supposed to be fixed last night.) You can still read all the pages on this website, but the online application form will not work until the problem is resolved. (In case you're interested in this sort of thing, pressing the "apply" button calls up a CGI script that resides on another server -- actually a computer under George Johnson's desk.) Meanwhile you can apply by fax or wait until tomorrow. We are sorry for the trouble.
2/16/04. We are slightly behind on processing applications, so there is still another 10 days or so to get into the first batch.