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Selection of Recent and Past Activities
February 2008 New England Science Writers event for all registered press on the
occasion of the AAAS meeting coming to Boston.Saturday February 16th 7-11
pm at Fenway Park, 12 Yawkey Way, Boston. Entrance free with press badge
from the AAAS newsroom.
”A Very Well-Engineered
Party” Boston Globe Magazine’s
Miss Conduct Read
Full Report
Holiday
Party 2007
JOHNNY D'S RESTAURANT AND MUSIC CLUB WEDNESDAY NOV. 28 Festivities
began at 5.30 pm with a cash bar, followed by dinner at roughly 6.30 or a
little later. Menu was Rosemary Chicken with prosciutto served over garlic
mashed potatoes. Vegetarian either Mushroom Stroganoff or Penne Mykanos
with spinach, feta cheese, tomatoes and olives.
Forsyth Institute
SPEAKERS:
Michael Levin, PhD, on a new research center based on his work related to
integrated biophysical approaches to address regeneration, cancer, aging,
and birth defects.
Nikos Soukos, D.D.S., PhD on his work with photomedicine.
Margaret Duncan, PhD, on her work with P. gingivalis genome and gene array
projects
NESW Holiday Social 2006
As in past years, this was a purely social
evening that started around 6 pm at Johnny D's with a cash bar. Dinner
around 7 well worth $20 per head. We were invited to stay for the live
music but officially were done by around 8.30 or so.
NESW Summer Party
Tia's on the Waterfront
Thursday, Aug, 19, 6 p.m.
We'll
meet for refreshments and a cash bar at Tia's, adjacent to the Marriott
Long Wharf.
Workshop:
How to make a living as a freelancer
A panel of successful freelance writers shared their different strategies,
including syndicating, specializing and diversifying at the Harvard Club in
May. Panelists were Judy Foreman, a lecturer in medicine at Harvard
Medical School, and an internationally syndicated health columnist;
Stefanie Friedhoff, a freelance journalist and science writer working for
both U.S. and European media; Jeff Hecht, freelance science writer for
New Scientist and Laser Focus World; and Charlie Schmidt, a freelance
science writer specializing in the environment, molecular biology, and
other topics. The panel was moderated by Pat McCaffrey,a biologist and a
recent graduate of the science journalism program at Boston University.
Workshop:
Breaking New Ground -- What Editors Expect in New Writers
The workshop
held in January at the Harvard Club included an editors' panel and a
discussion of queries.
Chair: freelance writer Carol Cruzan Morton
Douglas Most, Editor, Boston Globe/ Sunday Magazine
Herb Brody, Deputy Editor, Technology Review
Kevin Davies, Editor-in-Chief, Bio-IT World
Eugenie Samuel Reich, Physics and Technology Features Editor, New
Scientist.
NESW Holiday Party
Johnny D's, Davis Square, Somerville
The annual NESW holiday bash at Johnny D’s in Davis Square
included a cocktail hour, followed by dinner. Local members were joined by
science writers attending the Knight boot camp at MIT, as well as members
of this year's Knight Science Fellowship class.
Webb
Space Telescope talk
John C.
Mather, James Webb Space Telescope Senior Project Scientist at the NASA
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, spoke at the
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He described work on NASA's
James Webb Space Telescope, a 6-meter telescope planned for launch in 2011.
Although nominally the "next generation" space telescope, it will
observe mostly in the infrared rather than at the visible and ultraviolet
wavelengths seen by the present Hubble Space Telescope.
Science
Writers' Summer Party
NESW members
enjoyed a summer evening on the terrace of Tia's on the Waterfront,
adjacent to Marriott Long Wharf.
Bioterrorism,
SARS, and the Media
At a time of
looming disease and terrorist threats, the Harvard School of Public Health
has been designated a federally funded center for bioterrorism preparedness
to build a network of state and local public health, law enforcement, and
medical emergency responders. The media will play a crucial role in a
disease outbreak or bioterrorism attack, getting information out and
helping shape the public’s perception of the situation and its
response. How this will all play out was the subject of a discussion that
included Robert Blendon, Professor of Health Policy and Management and
director of the HSPH “Project on the Public and Biological
Security;” Von Roebuck, Senior Public Affairs Specialist of the US
Centers for Disease Control, and a representative of the Massachusetts Department
of Public Health.
Tiny Space Bugs
Talk by NASA's John Rummel
John Rummel, NASA's Planetary Protection Officer, told New England Science
Writers how NASA aims to protect Earth from contamination by alien microbes
in a Mars sample return mission. His talk, "Issues in Planetary
Protection: Microbial Tourism and Sample Return," was held at the
Whitehead Institute at MIT.
Stem cell expert
The British Consulate-General
invited members of the New England Science Writers to the Consulate for an
informal presentation and discussion with Ms Suzi Leather, chair of the UK's Human Fertilisation and
Embryology Authority (HFEA).
Ig Nobel Show
Marc Abrahams, editor of the Annals of Improbable
Research (AIR) and founder of the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, gave us a
preview of the Ig Nobel show that began touring the UK the following week at the Knight Center for Science and Medical
Journalism at Boston University.
NESW Holiday Party
on Thursday Dec 5th
at Johnny D’s in Davis Square Somerville, 5.30pm. Smashing dinner for members
and prospective members. Thanks to Richard Saltus.
Reception with
David King, the UK Government’s Chief Scientific Advisor
at 4.30pm on October 4th at
the British Consulate in Cambridge. We’ll gain a European
perspective on Science during one of Dr King’s rare visits to the US. Thanks to The British Consulate-General.
NESW ACS Reception
on Monday 19th
August from 5-7 pm in the Beacon G Room of
Boston’s Sheraton Hotel. A lovely program on the rationale behind
many widely held wine and cheese beliefs, from cookbook author Shirley
Corriher and food chemist Sara Risch. Thanks to ACS
Harvard Forest Long-Term Ecological Research
Station Day Trip
Saturday July 20th
2002
at 1.30pm
Thanks to Pete Spotts for organizing a lovely
hike and picnic at the falls that feed Tully Lake. We saw
experiments in one of the world’s most studied forests and learned
about climate-related carbon cycle work, forest management and forest
history...and the word is, 2001 was a great year for photosynthesis. Thanks to Forest Director John O’Keefe
and Researcher Julian Hadley at Harvard Forest.
Copenhagen, The Play
Sunday May 19th
2002
at 2pm. Copenhagen at the Colonial Theater in Boston. Thanks to Neil Savage for organising our trip to
see this controversial play about how the Nazis nearly got the bomb. Copenhagen
in Boston
NESW Website Crash Course
Wednesday May 1st 7pm in the New Scientist Office in Newton, MA. Our support Group on how to
update a website went well
Book Reading Event
Tuesday March
5th 6pm in Countway Auditorium,
Countway Library, Harvard Medical School. Member Pat Thomas gave a
reading from her new book, Big Shot,
which was picked by The Washington Post as one of the best non-fiction
books of 2001. The reading was followed by some great HMS food and chance to meet Pat.
NESW AAAS Party
Sunday Feb.
17th from 7pm at Matrix, 275 Tremont St, in the Theatre District in Boston. This was the undisputed
highlight of the science writing year. NESW treated reporters at the
American Association for the Advancement of Science's Annual Meeting to a
night of food, music and dancing. Thanks to Premier Sponsors Massachusetts Biotechnology Council Aventis and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Sponsors Transkaryotic Therapies, Feinstein Kean and Whitehead Institute Supporters Northern California Science Writers,
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and
American Meterological Association.
NESW Holiday Party
Thursday Dec.
6th from 6.30 until 8.30pm at Green St Grill on Green St, Cambridge, MA.
Food provided.
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