From the President
An update from NASW President Siri Carpenter
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NASW Community Check In Round 2: Summary
Our second community check-in survey helped us learn what needs and concerns are top of mind for members a few months into the pandemic and amidst efforts to address systemic racism in our country and our field.
Steve Olson: Apocalypse Factory
The atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, August 9, 1945, contained nuclear material manufactured at the Hanford nuclear reservation in Washington state. Histories of the Manhattan Project and the Cold War generally neglect Hanford, an oversight Steve Olson, who grew up in the nearby town of Othello, aims to correct in The Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age.
NASW calls for data access and transparency
NASW calls on the Trump Administration to ensure that public health data—including data that involve COVID-19 hospitalizations and availability of personal protective equipment, ventilators, and ICU beds—remain publicly available, transparent, and accessible.
Susan D’Agostino: How to Free Your Inner Mathematician
If the mathematical properties of wallpaper patterns, the best way to stack oranges, or the fairness of voting methods stir your curiosity, this book is for you. In How to Free Your Inner Mathematician: Notes on Mathematics and Life, Susan D’Agostino aims to help readers discard resistance to tackling mathematical concepts and explore new ways to master these ideas. She includes 300+ sketches.
Meet new member Mordechai Rorvig
Mordechai Rorvig, a science writer and editor at Charles River Analytics and a new addition to the NASW community, shares #WhySciWri in this short Q&A.