During the 2020 membership renewal period (December 1, 2019 to February 29, 2020), NASW members were invited to complete an accompanying survey prepared by NASW Membership Committee co-chairs Kasha Patel and Sarah Zielinski. Here, ScienceWriters reports on the questions, a summary of responses, and observations.
In the twilight, your enchanted bow and boots shimmer. No need to swim across the lake. Just walk on water. Elementary school-age children who enjoy the computer game Minecraft can master this skill and more with the aid of Linda Zajac’s Unofficial Guide to Minecraft Enchantments. The book is one of four new guides to different facets of Minecraft play Zajac created in only three months.
An update from NASW Executive Director Tinsley Davis
An update from NASW President Siri Carpenter
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.
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 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.
