NASW Update, June 5, 2009

NASW members: Here's your latest update on NASW news and what your board is doing on your behalf.

In the Pipeline: Grants to Help Build New Skills

Be on the lookout this summer for our latest effort to expand services to members amid the tumultuous change disrupting our profession. We're putting together details on a new NASW grant program for continuing education to help established science writers develop new skills necessary to report and publish their work in the evolving media marketplace. Authors Coalition funds will support the initiative. Watch for a program announcement in the next month or so.

ScienceWriters 2009 -- SAVE THE DATE!

ScienceWriters 2009 is October 16-20 in Austin, and we want to see you there. So we're subsidizing your workshops registration fee with Authors Coalition funds (see how important filling out those surveys is!). Early registration for NASW's professional development workshops, including speed dates with editors, new media workshops, skill building sessions, and plenty of time for networking, is only $150. Registration opens at www.sciencewriters2009.org on August 3. Hotel reservations open on August 3, too, with discounted rates of $159 a night at the brand new AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center at the University of Texas.

Voting deadline: June 20

You need vote only once, but please log on to www.nasw.org by June 20 to cast your ballot on the amendment to the NASW constitution that is up for your approval. It proposes a change to the board election cycle that would insure that new board members attend their first meeting within weeks of winning their seats instead of the several months' delay as happens under the current schedule.

June 5, 2009

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BWF Climate Change and Human Health Seed Grants

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EurekAlert! Travel Awards

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Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications