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We have resent personalized voting invitations to all regular members who have not yet voted for the 2014-16 board. Meet the candidates by reading the full article, clicking here for a PDF with photos and bios, or perusing the summer issue of ScienceWriters magazine.
Later this summer, NASW members will have the opportunity to elect board members for the upcoming two-year term. Candidate statements and voting option details (online or in person) will follow in the summer issue of ScienceWriters as well as right here on nasw.org. Read more to meet the candidates. Congratulations and thank you to all of the candidates, board members cycling off, and the Nominating Committee.
Two conferences recently funded by NASW Idea Grants are open for registration. Read more for info on the Women in Science Solutions Summit 2014, June 13-15 in Cambridge, Mass., and the regional workshop Sharing Science: Writing and Communications Skills in the 21st Century, June 26-27 in Madison, Wisc.
Two NASW members have been selected for travel fellowships to attend the 64th Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany this summer. Congratulations to Claudia Caruana and Elizabeth Landau and special thanks to the Council for the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings for funding these fellowships for the seventh year. Read more for details on the conference and fellows.
Nine talented juniors and seniors from the East Coast to the West Coast and as far north as Montreal, gathered in Chicago Feb. 13-17 to report on the 2014 American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting. These travel fellows were selected by the NASW Education Committee from a competitive set of applicants. The NASW Travel Fellows’ dispatches from The Windy City have been posted here.
A kitchen cupboard staple is helping in the fight against age-related brain disorders. Yeast has given rise to powerful new methods for examining cellular processes involved in diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, and for identifying new drug therapies.
The Winthrop Rockefeller Institute invites members of the National Association of Science Writers to apply for a scholarship to attend the 5th Nanotechnology for Health Care Conference at its conference center on Petit Jean Mountain in Arkansas. Read on for application details or visit www.arkansasnanohealth.com/nasw-scholarship.
Radio may have killed the video star, but now it is helping astronomers fill in significant gaps in their understanding of how planets grow.