Judy Woodruff is nervous about facing her "study group" at Harvard University. "These young people are smart," she says. "They're challenging. They're probing. They don't take anything at face value. I don't know what they're going to ask. I'm somebody who likes to be prepared."

On Monday she begins a 10-day visiting fellowship at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy.

Additionally, Woodruff is involved in a "documentary on the environment for a network of PBS stations in New England and a yearlong multimedia study of the attitudes of young Americans (ages 16 to 25) for Pew Charitable Trusts," among other projects, Gail Shister reports...