Following a 2021 vote of the membership, the National Association of Science Writers has created a new membership category: Affiliate Membership. Those interested in joining the organization in this new category can now apply nasw.org/join.
NASW student members looking for great internships or one-on-one conversation with editors or news and science organizations looking for top interns or the chance to meet up-and-coming science journalists should plan to attend the 2022 Virtual NASW Internship Fair and Editor Meet & Greet.
The National Association of Science Writers (NASW) is sponsoring virtual student programming to coincide with the virtual AAAS 2022 annual meeting.
The NASW Grants Committee is now accepting applications for a new round of Peggy Girshman Idea Grants awa
Entries for the 2022 Science in Society Journalism Awards are open now. With cash prizes, no entry fees for members, and submissions open to members and non-members alike, we hope that you enter your best work from this year and encourage your colleagues to enter, too. Entries close Feb. 1, 2022.
Entries for the 2022 Excellence in Institutional Writing Awards are open. The NASW Excellence in Institutional Writing Awards were established to recognize high-caliber publicly accessible science writing produced on behalf of an institution or other non-media organization.
Earlier this year, NASW members Delger Erdenesanaa, Alex Ip, and Claudia López Lloreda, were awarded Diversity Summer Fellowships to help offset the costs associated with pursuing science communication internships over the summer. Read about their experiences and the work they produced.
As one of the final sessions of ScienceWriters2021 (#SciWri21), the "Making the Invisible Visible: Challenges to explaining deep tech" session addressed how journalists and science writers can explain “invisible” science findings.
