In the past seven months since we first announced our Idea Grants program, the National Association of Science Writers has awarded five grants, totaling $72,400. Funding is provided by income from the Authors Coalition, and the grants are intended to help science writers in their professional lives or benefit the field of science writing.
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A reminder about an NASW grant program for science writers; a search for potential mentors of AAAS Mass Media Science & Engineering Fellowship winners; plus new web resources for freelancers, instructors, and others interested in the science writing world.
Reviews and "buy now" links for eight new books have been posted in the ScienceWriters Bookstore, including the story of a renegade physician named Jean Denis, who transfused calf’s blood into one of Paris’s most notorious madmen in 1867 and was charged with murder, and two works on global climate change. Use the search box on the Bookstore page to buy these books or anything sold at Amazon.com. Your purchases through this site help fund NASW programs and services.
Registration is now open for the 2011 World Conference of Science Journalists scheduled for June 27-29 in Doha, Qatar. Read the warm invitation from World Federation of Science Journalists' President Nadia El-Awady at www.nasw.org/join-us-doha-qatar-wcsj2011. We are also pleased that through the hard work of our international liaison, Deborah Blum, our board members, and others, NASW is content partner for this exciting world conference.
Registration is now open for the 2011 World Conference of Science Writers in Doha, Qatar, June 26-30. The event includes multimedia workshops, dozens of sessions on hot topics in science writing, and field trips to explore science and the environment in the Arab world. NASW is content partner for the WCSJ, in collaboration with the Arab Science Journalists Association and the World Federation of Science Journalists. Early bird registration ends April 11.
Seven recipients of the 2011 Laura Van Dam Fellowships for travel to the World Conference of Science Journalists in June have been selected.
We were delighted to receive an outpouring of response from members interested in assisting with choosing content and structuring the flow of the 2011 workshops, part of ScienceWriters2011. While unable to accept all of these offers of assistance, we are pleased to have an excellent group.
Organizers of the World Conference of Science Journalists 2011 said the meeting will be held as scheduled June 27-29 but in Doha, Qatar, rather than Cairo. "There were too many uncertainties, unfortunately, and we felt our priority needed to be providing a stable and safe environment to hold a successful conference." Read the announcement here.
Since their introduction 50 years ago, lasers have gone from science fiction to everyday life. Now, laser technology is providing new alternatives to conventional methods in biomedicine, according to researchers who spoke on Feb. 19 at the 2011 AAAS meeting in Washington, D.C.