Each year NASW offers a number of travel grants to help colleagues in need attend our ScienceWriters conference and other professional development opportunities. This year we are supporting needs for both virtual and in-person attendees. In addition, our colleagues and friends at the Council for Advancement of Science Writing are offering travel grants.
Vaccination and masking requirements for attending the Memphis portion of ScienceWriters2022 are now available online.
National Association of Science Writers (NASW) submits letter urging government action on missing British journalist Dominic Phillips.
Funding from the National Association of Science Writers is providing promising trainees with supplemental stipends to pursue their journalism training.
Two projects will receive NASW Idea Grants funding in 2022 to kickstart career development and networking programs serving science writers.
Later this year, elections will be held to select our next volunteers for the NASW board of directors, serving the 2022-2024 term. Voting is open to all current NASW members with Professional membership.
The National Association of Science Writers (NASW) is among the 170-plus organizations co-signing an open letter to The Pulitzer Prizes calling for the organization to mandate diversity survey participation as part of its awards qualification requirements beginning 2024.
We’re excited to announce a brand new addition to NASW. Ben Young Landis has joined the organization as assistant executive director, a new role that will focus on communications, community building, and committee development in addition to supporting the executive director.
Nearly half of researchers responding to a recent survey said that politicization of science has made them lose interest in communicating with the media.