Stuart Brown

Associate Editor, Popular Science

Study Plan: Technology and global warming

Peg Byron

National Medical Columnist, United Press International

Study Plan: Medical research methodology

Russell Carollo

Special Services Reporter, Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA)

Study Plan: First Amendment law

Moon-Ki Choi

Senior City News Reporter, Chosun Ilbo (Seoul)

Study Plan: Changing superpower influence

Nadine Epstein

Freelance Writer, Tucson, AZ

Study Plan: Spiritual support in medicine

Ford Fessenden

Investigative Reporter, Newsday

Study Plan: Social basis of racism

Patrice Gaines-Carter

Reporter, The Washington Post

Study Plan: Afro-American studies

Henry Goldman

Reporter, The Philadelphia Inquirer

Study Plan: Social services policies

Malani Govinnage

Sub-Editor and Feature Writer, Associated Newspapers of Ceylon, Ltd (Colombo, Sri Lanka)

Study Plan: Women journalists in the Third World

Yasushi Iida

Editorial Writer, Mainichi Shimbun (Tokyo)

Study Plan: Computers and personal privacy

Derwin Johnson

Producer, ABC News

Study Plan: U.S. international relations

Jack Kresnak

Reporter, Detroit Free Press

Study Plan: Social implications of poverty

Lawrence MacDonald

Correspondent (Seoul), Agence France Presse

Study Plan: Reunification in Asia: China and Korea

Hassan Abul Quashem

Senior Staff Correspondent, The New Nation (Dhaka, Bangladesh)

Study Plan: International economics

Sharon Walsh

Financial Reporter, The Washington Post

Study Plan: Women and workplace issues